FlorisBoard

FlorisBoard is an on-screen keyboard by Patrick Goldinger and other contributors. Its README: it “aims at being modern, user-friendly and customizable while fully respecting your privacy. Currently in beta state.” Version 0.5.2, from late 2025, is the current stable release; development has continued in 2026 on the 0.6 previews, which add a floating keyboard.

What it does

• Themes, with a theme editor and Material You colours, and 76 built-in layouts.
• Clipboard manager with a history, off by default.
• Emoji, with a history, and emoji suggestions when you type a colon followed by at least three letters.
• No glide typing in 0.5.2: its settings say it is “currently not available” and will be rebuilt together with word suggestions.
• Extensions (.flex files) for themes, keyboard layouts and language packs. Bundled Chinese packs cover three shape-based input methods, Zhengma, Boshiamy and large Cangjie; there is no Pinyin.
• No word suggestions or spell check in this version, as its README states; they are planned for 0.6.

How it compares

Among the keyboards on this site:

• HeliBoard and AnySoftKeyboard suggest words from dictionaries; FlorisBoard 0.5 doesn’t.
• Fossify Keyboard has no suggestions either, and no extensions.
• FUTO Keyboard predicts words and types by voice on the phone, under a source-available licence; FlorisBoard has no voice typing and is open source under the Apache-2.0.
• Unexpected Keyboard downloads its dictionaries from the internet; FlorisBoard has no internet access at all.
• For Chinese, Fcitx5 offers Pinyin, which FlorisBoard lacks.
• Thumb-Key replaces the full keyboard with nine large keys and swipes.

Offline

The app declares no internet permission, and we found no network code in it. When it crashes, it shows a local notification with the details rather than sending a report. Its privacy policy: “Any personal data that is persisted is stored locally and never leaves your device.” The Addons Store opens in your browser, not inside the keyboard.

The permissions it asks for

Three: vibration for key feedback, notifications for those crash reports, and one that the AndroidX library adds for internal use. The project’s documentation says FlorisBoard “works perfectly fine without any of these permissions”.

About this file

• This is the developer’s own build of version 0.5.2, via IzzyOnDroid, byte for byte the stable APK on the project’s GitHub release, and signed with the key whose hash the README publishes.
• F-Droid builds and signs its own copy with F-Droid’s key, so this file and F-Droid’s can’t update each other; switching means uninstalling first.
• On Google Play, FlorisBoard is only a closed test that you join through a Google group; the README says “Beginning with v0.7 FlorisBoard will enter the public beta on Google Play.”
• The 14.8 MB file runs on Android 8.0 and later, on ARM and x86, 32- and 64-bit. Our scan found no trackers.
• FlorisBoard is licensed under the Apache-2.0. An English word list, apparently meant for the switched-off glide typing, was added without a stated source, and the data of the Chinese packs doesn’t say where it comes from, apart from the Zhengma tables, which a change note describes as public domain.

CPU types in this build: arm64-v8a (64-bit ARM, almost every phone since 2017); armeabi-v7a (32-bit ARM, older and budget phones); x86 (32-bit Intel, emulators); x86_64 (64-bit Intel, emulators and Chromebooks).

Versions currently kept in the IzzyOnDroid repository. We host and check only the newest one. Full changelog.