Android keyboard
One Android keyboard for touch, stylus and voice — designed to adapt to the way you write.
What you're looking at
Inkboard is an input method: it appears wherever Android accepts text, in any app. The mode control sits on the left of the action bar and never moves, so switching between touch, stylus and voice does not change where anything is.
Type — QWERTY with predictions above the keys. Tap the mode control to change input method.
Three ways in
Touch, stylus and voice are not three utilities bolted together. They are three ways of putting words in the same field, in the same keyboard, without leaving the app you are writing in. A group chat, a shopping list, a note you'll finish later — whichever hand you happen to have free.
Type
A QWERTY keyboard that behaves like one. Tap or glide across the letters; glide decoding runs on the device. Key targeting is forgiving where it needs to be — the space bar's top edge stops swallowing presses aimed at the row above it.
Hold the space bar and slide to move the cursor.
h · o · m · e — decoded on the device
Write
A full writing surface inside the keyboard. Handwriting is recognised on the device once the language pack has downloaded, and arrives as text you can still edit — including with more handwriting. Select a word, write the replacement, press Read ink.
On supported stylus hardware, ink is drawn by the device's own low-latency pen renderer.
Handwriting, then the same message as editable text
Speak
Dictation lands in the same review field as handwriting, using the speech service your device is already configured with. Read it, correct it, add to it by any method — then insert it. Nothing reaches the app you are writing in until you press Insert.
Live transcript, reviewed before it is inserted
How it learns
Type, Write and Speak describe what you give Inkboard. This describes how it answers. When you accept a suggestion, reject one, or correct a word, that choice is a signal — and it can change what Inkboard offers next time.
First time
Dinner with Taylor
Inkboard offers the closest word it knows. It is a real word. It is not your friend's name.
You correct it
Dinner with Tayla
Taylor
Kept as you typed it
Later
Tayla
Next time you start the name, yours comes first. The suggestion you turned down is ranked lower than it was.
Not the same thing
Personal learning is not AI assistance. Learning happens on your device, from your own use, in an encrypted personal dictionary you can clear at any time. AI-assisted writing is a separate, optional action you invoke deliberately — it uses a provider and an API key you supply yourself, and it sends only the text in the review field.
The complete keyboard
Word completion and next-word suggestions, ranked by context rather than raw frequency, computed on the device.
Names, terms and phrases learned from your writing. Stored encrypted on the device; the count is visible in settings and the whole of it can be cleared.
Trace a word across the keys. Neural decoding runs locally — no swipe path leaves the device.
Recent clips, encrypted on the device. Unpinned clips expire after an hour. Sensitive-marked clips and some obvious secret patterns are filtered; you can clear history or turn it off.
Searchable, with the ones you actually use kept to hand.
Optional. Rewrite or act on the text in the review field, using a provider and key you configure yourself. Never automatic, and never applied to the app's own text.
Key geometry is derived from available width, so a wider screen produces better-proportioned keys rather than a taller keyboard.
Across Android
Not "works on many devices" — each form factor gets a layout decided by its actual width, because a folded phone and an unfolded one are not the same keyboard.
The baseline. Compact insets, four key rows sized from width.
Folded and unfolded are different widths, so they get different geometry — not a stretched copy of the small one.
Extra width widens the keys instead of growing the keyboard upwards.
On e-paper, animations and the glide trace are dropped — the panel cannot draw them, and every frame it is asked for costs a refresh.
Privacy
A keyboard sees everything you write, so it owes you a plain account of what it does with that. Here is the current position, stated as behaviour rather than as a promise.
Read the Inkboard privacy policy for data handling, service providers, retention and deletion controls.
Get Inkboard
Inkboard is in development and not yet on Google Play. It is built for Android 8.0 and later, in English (Australia). There is no download link here yet because there is nothing yet to download.