ClaviRom

ClaviRom

Customizable open-source keyboard with a flavour of Swiss-Romansh

Martin Huber Keyboard & IME

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Description

ClaviRom is an adaptation of HeliBoard - a privacy-conscious open-source keyboard, based on AOSP / OpenBoard - to Swiss minority languages Does not use internet permission, and thus is 100% offline. New features of ClaviRom:

  • Spell check and next word proposals for Swiss Romansh languages Puter, Surmiran, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Vallader and Rumantsch Grischun
  • A welcome wizard in Romansh languages to setup the keyboard
Features of HeliBoard:
  • Add dictionaries for suggestions and spell check
    • build your own, or get them here, or in the experimental section (quality may vary)
    • additional dictionaries for emojis or scientific symbols can be used to provide suggestions (similar to "emoji search")
    • note that for Korean layouts, suggestions only work using this dictionary, the tools in the dictionary repository are not able to create working dictionaries
  • Customize keyboard themes (style, colors and background image)
    • can follow the system's day/night setting on Android 10+ (and on some versions of Android 9)
    • can follow dynamic colors for Android 12+
  • Customize keyboard layouts (only available when disabling use system languages)
  • Customize special layouts, like symbols, number, or functional key layout
  • Multilingual typing
  • Glide typing (only with closed source library ☹️)
    • library not included in the app, as there is no compatible open source library available
    • can be extracted from GApps packages ("swypelibs"), or downloaded here (click on the file and then "raw" or the tiny download button)
  • Clipboard history
  • One-handed mode
  • Split keyboard (only available if the screen is large enough)
  • Number pad
  • Backup and restore your settings and learned word / history data

What’s new (3.8.1)

## ClaviRom
* improved layout of Puter and Vallader
* added English to Welcome Wizard

Versions

Version Date Size Requires Android Download
3.8.1 current
a660e59857566e3c…
2026-07-20 16 MB API 21

Permissions

What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.

  • READ_USER_DICTIONARY
  • Run at startupStart automatically after the device is switched on.
  • VibrationControl the vibration alert.
  • WRITE_USER_DICTIONARY
  • Read contactsAccess the address book.
  • keyboard.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

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