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Urik Keyboard

Privacy-focused Android keyboard

Android · v0.23.1-beta · Urik Development

About Urik Keyboard

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

## Features

**Input**

- Swipe typing with geometric path matching and vertex detection

- One-handed and split modes with coordinate transformation

- Adaptive layout for tablets and foldables

- Long-press for character variations and custom key mapping

- Long-press comma key to switch keyboards (IME picker)

- Spacebar swipe for cursor control

- Backspace swipe to delete previous word

- Optional number row

- QWERTZ, AZERTY, Dvorak, Colemak, Workman, Bds and Hcesar layouts

- Hardware keyboard detection

**Intelligence**

- Local bigram model for next-word prediction

- On-device spell checking using URIK (Ultra-compressed Ranked Input Korpus) — a custom binary dictionary format with Levenshtein automaton traversal

- Autocorrect with configurable pause-on-misspell; skips URLs, emails, and punctuation

- Word learning with encrypted SQLCipher database

- User-specific word frequency tracking

- 19 supported languages with dedicated language toggle button

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