Urik Keyboard

Urik Keyboard

Privacy-focused Android keyboard

Urik Development Keyboard & IME

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Description

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
- Merged dictionaries mode for multilingual typing sessions
- Emoji search with keyword support

**Integration**
- Inline autofill support for password managers (Android 11+)
- Clipboard history with encrypted storage

**Customization**
- 15+ built-in themes with favorites and Material You dynamic theming (Android 12+)
- Custom long-press symbol and key assignments
- Haptic feedback strength slider
- Auto-capitalization toggle
- Configurable key size, key label size, spacebar size, and cursor speed
- Manage learned words: browse, search, and delete entries
- 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)
- Biometric authentication for accessing learned words
- Dictionary export and import for backup or migration
- Bigram predictions and word frequencies remain local-only (not exported)

## Privacy

All processing happens on-device. No data leaves your phone. User dictionary and learned words are stored in an encrypted local database.

We answer to our users, not investors.

Versions

Version Date Size Requires Android Download
0.23.1-beta current
36b0d46f13932e19…
2026-06-14 25 MB API 26
0.23.0-beta
ca340974c8dcb2f6…
2026-06-13 25 MB API 26
0.22.0-beta
ee0f5e600bb0eef5…
2026-05-18 25 MB API 26

Permissions

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

  • VibrationControl the vibration alert.
  • BiometricsUnlock with fingerprint or face.
  • FingerprintUnlock with a fingerprint.
  • keyboard.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

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