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Tour & user guide - v0.1.0, before release

A keyboard you design yourself, that cannot send what you type.

FunKeyboard puts your own photo behind the keys, stickers on them, stars bursting out of them and a piano in them. A keyboard sees everything you type, so this one has no internet permission at all - not restricted, not unused: absent. This page is the whole product: a five-stop tour, then a reference for the details, including everything it does not do.

Coming soon to Google Play Android 8.0+ · Planned: 1-day free trial, then one payment
Internet permission
None at all
Ready-made themes
8
Stylish text styles
10
Accounts
None needed
The tour

Five stops, from a plain phone to a keyboard nobody else has.

FunKeyboard is a small app doing one playful thing. Work through these five and you have seen all of it.

1Setup

Turn it on

Two steps, both in Android's own screens.

  • Step 1 opens Android's keyboard settings, where you switch FunKeyboard on.
  • Android warns that a keyboard can collect what you type. It shows that for every keyboard you add, and the app explains why this one cannot send it anywhere.
  • Step 2 opens Android's keyboard list, where you choose FunKeyboard.
  • The app then has a box to try it in, right on the home screen.
2Themes

Pick a theme

Eight complete looks, one tap each.

  • Cloud, Strawberry, Bakery, Pond, Winter, Sunset, Galaxy and Midnight.
  • Each one sets the colours and the keycap font, and most add a sticker, a typing effect and a matching key sound.
  • The change is immediate. The next time the keyboard opens, it wears the new theme.
3DIY

Design your own

Six tabs, with the real keyboard underneath.

  • Backgrounds - your own photo or one of ten gradients, then key and letter colours.
  • Icons - stickers in the corners of the keys. They sit beside the letter, so every key stays readable.
  • Fonts - nine keycap fonts, from Pacifico to Bangers.
  • Effects - hearts, stars, bows, snow, confetti, petals, fruit, bubbles or fire, bursting from the key you press.
  • Sounds and Size - seven generated key sounds with a volume slider, plus keyboard height and letter size.
  • The preview is the keyboard itself, not a picture of it. Nothing changes until you tap Save.
4Stylish text

Type in style

Text that stays styled wherever you paste it.

  • A strip above the keys offers ten styles: Script, Bold, Italic, Gothic, Outline, Sans, Mono, Bubble, Wide and Small Caps.
  • It is not a font. Each letter is swapped for a Unicode look-alike, so the style goes with the text into any app that can show those characters.
  • It switches itself off in password, email, web address and number fields, and the strip says so.
5Typing

Everyday typing

The plain keyboard underneath the fun.

  • A number row is always on top, with two more pages of symbols behind ?123.
  • The emoji panel takes the place of the keys, in six groups.
  • Shift capitalises one letter, a double tap locks it, and sentences start with a capital by themselves where the app you are typing in allows it.
  • Hold backspace to keep deleting. The Enter key reads Go, Search, Send, Next or Done to match the app.
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This is a fun keyboard, not a clever one. There are no word suggestions, no autocorrect and no swipe typing, and it is English only. If you rely on those, keep your current keyboard. Android lets you switch between keyboards at any time - see what it does not do.

The guide

Reference, by topic.

Everything from the tour in more detail, plus what a keyboard owes you in writing: what it can see, what it keeps, and what it leaves out.

Getting started

First run

Android makes you turn a new keyboard on yourself, in two places. The home screen walks you through both.

1. Turn it on
Tap Open keyboard settings and switch FunKeyboard on. Android shows its standard warning that keyboards can collect what you type; here is what this one actually does.
2. Switch to it
Back in the app, tap Choose keyboard and pick FunKeyboard from Android's list.
3. Try it
Tap Try your keyboard here on the home screen and type a few words.
4. Make it yours
Tap a theme, or Design your own keyboard to start the DIY editor.

What it sees and keeps

Honest

Every keyboard sees what you type, because typing is how text gets into the app in front of you. What matters is what it does next.

What it does

  • Passes each letter straight to the app you are typing in
  • Keeps your theme, your chosen stylish style and your background photo on the phone
  • Reads the few characters before the cursor, to delete one whole emoji at a time and to know when a capital is due

What it does not do

  • Save anything you type - there is no dictionary, typing history or log to fill
  • Send anything anywhere - it has no internet permission
  • Ask for storage, contacts, microphone, camera or location
  • Copy itself to a Google account - Android's automatic backup is off for this app
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No internet permission at all. Not "unused" or "restricted" - the app does not hold it. That also means no ads, no analytics and no crash reports, because none of them can reach anywhere. Android itself refuses any network connection from an app without this permission.

Themes

One tap
Cloud
Soft lilac and white, the system font and a plain click. The default.
Strawberry
Pink, Comic Neue, strawberry stickers, hearts and a pop.
Bakery
Warm cream, Lobster, cake stickers, bows and a bell.
Pond
Green, Nerko One, frog stickers, bubbles and a water drop.
Winter
Icy blue, Mountains of Christmas, snow and a bell.
Sunset
Orange into pink, Pacifico, flower stickers, petals and a piano.
Galaxy
Deep purple, Bangers, star stickers, stars and a drum.
Midnight
Near-black, the system font, fire and a typewriter.

The DIY editor

Six tabs

Changes stay in a draft until you tap Save, and the live keyboard below the tabs shows the draft as you go.

Backgrounds
My photo or one of ten gradients, then eight key colours and seven letter colours.
Icons
Butterfly, Bow, Strawberry, Cake, Flower, Star, Heart, Frog, Cat or a Mix, in the corner of every fifth letter key. They are emoji, so they look the way your phone draws emoji.
Fonts
System, Lobster, Pacifico, Bangers, Comic Neue, Mountains of Christmas, Irish Grover, Henny Penny or Nerko One. These change how the keys look, not the text you type. For that, see stylish text.
Effects
Nine effects that burst from the key you press, then fall and fade. The number on screen is capped, so fast typing stays smooth.
Sounds
Click, Pop, Piano, Typewriter, Drum, Bell, Water drop or None, with a volume slider. The app makes these sounds itself, and they stay quiet when the phone is on silent or vibrate.
Size
Keyboard height from 70 to 130 percent, letter size from 70 to 140 percent. The keyboard never takes more than 55 percent of the screen.
One design at a time
Saving replaces your previous design, and so does picking a ready-made theme. There is no library of saved designs, so a design you are fond of is lost if you switch away from it.

Your own photo

Private
Choosing it
The photo comes through Android's own picker, so the app sees only the one picture you choose. It needs no permission to read your gallery.
What is kept
A copy, scaled down to 1600 pixels on its longest side, in the app's private storage. Your original is not touched.
Clearing it
Copies you tried and did not save are removed. So is the saved copy when you move to a gradient or a ready-made theme. Uninstalling removes everything.
Android version
My photo needs Android 9 or later. The rest of the app runs on Android 8.0 and later.

Stylish text

Unicode

The clever part of stylish text is also its limit: these are not ordinary letters that happen to look nice, they are different characters.

The ten styles
Script, Bold, Italic, Gothic, Outline, Sans, Mono, Bubble, Wide and Small Caps. Pick Normal to go back. Your choice stays until you change it.
Why it survives pasting
The app you are typing in receives the look-alike characters themselves, so they stay styled in a chat, a bio or a caption.
Numbers
Bold, Outline, Sans, Mono, Bubble and Wide style digits too. The others leave digits plain, Small Caps leaves capitals as they are, and punctuation is never changed.
Switched off for you
Password, email, web address and number fields always get plain text, because swapped letters would silently break them. The strip reads "Stylish text is off for this field".
Where it can go wrong
An app or an older phone may show some characters as empty boxes. Searching for the plain word will not find the styled one, and screen readers may read it badly or not at all. Use it for decoration, not for anything people need to find or read aloud.

Keys & emoji

Typing
Layout
English QWERTY with a permanent number row. Two pages of symbols sit behind ?123, and number fields open on symbols by themselves.
Shift
One tap for one capital, a double tap to lock, one more to release. Capitals at the start of a sentence come on automatically where the app allows it.
Backspace
Hold to repeat. It removes a whole emoji at a time, including the long family-style ones.
Enter
Reads Go, Search, Send, Next or Done when the app asks for that, and does that action.
Emoji
The 😊 key opens a panel in six groups: faces, hands, hearts, nature, food, and activities and objects. ABC goes back. There is no emoji search and no recents row.
Landscape
The keyboard stays themed sideways. It does not switch to Android's plain full-screen text box.

Switching keyboards

No lock-in
Between keyboards
Tap the 🌐 key when Android shows it, or use the keyboard button in the navigation bar. Which of these appears depends on the phone.
Going back for good
Choose your old keyboard in Android's keyboard settings. Uninstalling FunKeyboard also hands you back to another keyboard.

What it does not do

Honest

The list a keyboard's store page usually leaves out.

It does

  • Look the way you want it to
  • Type English, numbers, symbols and emoji
  • Stylish text that survives pasting
  • Work with no internet, no account and no ads

It does not

  • Suggest words, or correct spelling
  • Do swipe or glide typing
  • Type other languages or layouts, including Hindi
  • Give accented letters on a long press
  • Do voice typing
  • Keep clipboard history
  • Offer GIFs or emoji search

What it will cost

Planned

FunKeyboard is not on sale yet, and everything in this section is the plan rather than a description of the current build.

1-day free trial
Planned: install it free from Google Play and use all of it for a day.
Then one payment
Planned: a single purchase through Google Play, at the price shown on the listing. No subscription, no ads and no tiers.
Not built yet
Version 0.1.0 has no trial and no purchase in it. Google's purchase library normally adds an internet permission, so the plan is to take that permission back out and prove a real purchase still works. It has to pass that test before release, and this page will be updated then.
The trial clock
With no server, the clock can only live on the phone. Reinstalling the app will restart it.
After the trial
Planned: when the day is up, the keyboard stops typing and gives you two choices: buy it, or switch to your phone's default keyboard.

Options reference

Quick lookup
WhereOptionWhat it does
HomeThemesApplies one of eight ready-made looks straight away
HomeTry your keyboard hereA box to type in without leaving the app
DIYBackgroundsMy photo or ten gradients, eight key colours, seven letter colours
DIYIconsTen sticker choices, or None
DIYFontsNine keycap fonts. Change the keys, not your text
DIYEffectsNine typing effects, or None
DIYSoundsSeven key sounds or None, volume 0 to 100. Silent when the phone is
DIYKeyboard sizeHeight, 70 to 130 percent
DIYLetter sizeKeycap label size, 70 to 140 percent
KeyboardStyle stripNormal or one of ten stylish text styles
Keyboard😊 keyOpens the emoji panel

Frequently asked

Expectations

Android warned me that a keyboard can collect what I type. Should I worry?

Android shows that warning for every keyboard you did not get with the phone. FunKeyboard does see what you type, as any keyboard must, but it does not save your typing and it holds no internet permission, so it has no way to send anything off the phone.

Does FunKeyboard have word suggestions, autocorrect or swipe typing?

No. It has none of these, and no voice typing, clipboard history or long-press accents either. It is a tap-to-type keyboard in the English QWERTY layout, built for looks and fun.

Is stylish text a font?

No. Each letter is swapped for a different Unicode character, which is why the style survives being pasted into another app. Those characters are not ordinary letters, so a search may not find them, a screen reader may read them oddly, and some apps may show them as boxes.

Is stylish text used in password fields?

No. It switches itself off in password, email, web address and number fields, because swapped letters would break the input. The strip above the keys says so.

Will the key sounds play when my phone is on silent?

No. They only play when the phone's ringer mode is normal.

Are the characters on the keyboard from cartoons or games?

No. Stickers and effects are your phone's own emoji, the sounds are generated by the app, and the fonts are openly licensed.

Is FunKeyboard on Google Play?

Not yet. It is coming soon, and this page will link to the listing on the day it is published.

What will it cost?

The plan is a 1-day free trial, then one payment through Google Play, at the price shown on the listing. When the trial ends, the keyboard stops typing until you buy it or switch to your phone's default keyboard. There will be no subscription and no ads. The trial and the purchase are not built yet - see what it will cost.

Status

Before release
v0.1.0
The first build, before release. Eight themes, the six-tab DIY editor, ten stylish text styles, the emoji panel and a setup guide.
Known limitations
My photo needs Android 9 or later. After you choose the keyboard in step 2, the setup card can stay on screen until you leave the app and come back. A design you have saved is replaced when you pick a ready-made theme.
Status
Coming soon to Google Play. The screens on this page come from the v0.1.0 test build. Licences for the fonts ship with the app.