Whizzboard
A keyboard for Android with no internet access.Whizzboard doesn’t ask Android for permission to use the internet, so the system won’t let it open a connection. Autocorrect, emoji search and voice typing all work on your phone.
What Whizzboard does
Whizzboard is a keyboard for Android. Everything you type stays on your phone, in Whizzboard’s own private storage, and is never sent anywhere.
No internet, and you can check
Whizzboard has no internet permission. Without it, Android itself makes it impossible for the app to open a network connection. You can see this in the app’s permission list.
Autocorrect and emoji search, offline
The English dictionaries and an emoji dictionary ship inside the app, so suggestions and emoji search work from the first tap. Nothing is ever downloaded.
Fixes a missed space
Your thumb lands on b and m, just above the space bar, and “how are you” comes out as “howbaremyou”. Whizzboard autocorrects it to “how are you”.
Clipboard history
Copied text goes into a history you can pin items in, kept in Whizzboard’s private storage where no other app can read it. For ten minutes after you copy something, a clipboard key next to the mic opens it in one tap.
Voice typing on your phone
Off until you turn it on. Your speech is turned into text on the phone by a speech model inside the app. The audio is never stored, never sent anywhere and never logged, and nothing is learned from it.
Make it yours
Rounded keys in light and dark themes, custom colours, a number row, one-handed mode, a split keyboard, and cursor control by sliding along the space bar.
What Whizzboard doesn’t do
- No accounts, analytics, crash reports or ads. Whizzboard never asks who you are and shares no data with us or anyone else.
- No learning from your typing unless you ask. Turn on personalised suggestions and the words it learns stay in its private storage, out of backups, and are deleted when you turn the setting off.
- No GIF search, translation or cloud suggestions. They all need the internet, so they are left out on purpose.
- English only, for now. Whizzboard ships with US and UK English.
Open source
Whizzboard is free software under the GPL-3.0, based on HeliBoard, OpenBoard and the Android Open Source Project keyboard. Its complete source code will be published when Whizzboard is released, so anyone can check what it does.
A share of every sale supports HeliBoard’s development.
Coming soon
Not on Google Play yet
Whizzboard will cost US$1 on Google Play, paid once, with no ads. Questions in the meantime are welcome.