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Urik Keyboard

Privacy-focused Android keyboard
Privacy-focused Android keyboard with swipe typing, custom layouts, and password manager support. No tracking, 100% on-device, and fully open source.

**Input**
- Swipe typing with geometric path matching and vertex detection
- One-handed and split modes with coordinate transformation
- Long-press for character variations and custom key mapping
- Long-press comma key to switch keyboards (IME picker)
- Spacebar swipe for cursor control
- QWERTZ, AZERTY, Dvorak, Colemak, and Workman layouts
- Hardware keyboard detection

**Intelligence**
- Local bigram model for next-word prediction
- On-device spell checking using SymSpell algorithm
- Smart autocorrect for URLs, emails, and punctuation context
- Word learning with encrypted SQLCipher database
- User-specific word frequency tracking
- Multilingual support with dedicated language toggle button
- Emoji search with keyword support

**Integration**
- Inline autofill support for password managers (Android 11+)
- Clipboard history with encrypted storage
- Material You dynamic theming (Android 12+)

**Customization**
- Custom long-press symbol and key assignments
- Haptic feedback strength slider
- Auto-capitalization toggle
- Configurable key sizes and typing behavior
- WCAG AA contrast and TalkBack support

**Privacy**
- No telemetry, analytics or network permissions
- Local on-device processing
- Encrypted local storage for user data (AES-256 + Android Keystore)
- Dictionary export and import for backup or migration
- Bigram predictions and word frequencies remain local-only (not exported)

Versions

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  • Version 0.18.0-beta (56) suggested Added on Feb 23, 2026

    arm64-v8a armeabi-v7a x86 x86_64

    This version requires Android 8.0 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • reorder running apps
      Allows the app to move tasks to the foreground and background. The app may do this without your input.
    • control vibration
      Allows the app to control the vibrator.
    • com.urik.keyboard.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 40 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

  • Version 0.17.3-beta (55) - Added on Feb 13, 2026

    arm64-v8a armeabi-v7a x86 x86_64

    This version requires Android 8.0 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • reorder running apps
      Allows the app to move tasks to the foreground and background. The app may do this without your input.
    • control vibration
      Allows the app to control the vibrator.
    • com.urik.keyboard.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 39 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

  • Version 0.17.2-beta (54) - Added on Feb 10, 2026

    arm64-v8a armeabi-v7a x86 x86_64

    This version requires Android 8.0 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • reorder running apps
      Allows the app to move tasks to the foreground and background. The app may do this without your input.
    • control vibration
      Allows the app to control the vibrator.
    • com.urik.keyboard.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 39 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log