Keyboard app privacy ratings
On-screen keyboards for phones and tablets. A keyboard sees everything you type.
8 mobile keyboards are rated against 5 public criteria, and 8 have enough evidence for a letter grade. Of the 3 with a known jurisdiction, 3 are based in a Five Eyes country, and 3 in the wider Fourteen Eyes.
Open-source mobile keyboards only · Criteria for this category · Suggest an addition · Markdown
| Name | Grade | Score | Data | Jurisdiction | Open source | No trackers or telemetry | No ads or data sales | Independent audit | Works offline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Open source keyboard for Android with add-on packs for languages, layouts and themes, gesture typing, voice input and a clipboard manager. |
Grade B | 85 | 100% | – | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Open source keyboard for Android with glide typing, clipboard manager, emoji panel, themes and extension support, with no network access. |
Grade B | 85 | 100% | – | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Android keyboard with on-device word prediction, swipe typing and offline voice input, built without network access. |
Grade B | 85 | 100% | United States Five Eyes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Open source keyboard for Android based on AOSP LatinIME, with themes, clipboard history, multilingual typing and optional glide typing through a user-supplied library, without network access. |
Grade B | 85 | 100% | – | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Minimal open source keyboard for Android with a number row, adjustable height, custom colors and cursor movement by swiping the space bar, requesting only the vibrate permission. |
Grade B | 85 | 100% | – | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Open source Android keyboard with a compact 3x3 key grid and swipe gestures designed for typing with the thumbs, with layouts for many languages. |
Grade B | 85 | 100% | – | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Google's keyboard app for Android and iOS, with glide typing, voice typing, built-in Google search, translation, emoji and GIF search. |
Grade F | 12 | 100% | United States Five Eyes | No | Partial | No | No | No |
Microsoft's keyboard app for Android and iOS, with learned word predictions, swipe typing, cloud backup through a Microsoft account, and built-in Copilot and Bing features. |
Grade F | 0 | 100% | United States Five Eyes | No | No | No | No | No |
Questions
What is the most private option among mobile keyboards?
No pick has been made yet. The table above is sorted by score, based on public evidence.
How are mobile keyboards rated?
Each entry answers 5 questions: open source, no trackers or telemetry, no ads or data sales, independent audit and works offline. Answers need links to evidence. See the full criteria.
Does jurisdiction matter?
Jurisdiction decides which laws can compel a provider to hand over data. Each entry shows its country and whether it is in the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes. The data a provider can hand over depends mostly on what it stores and who holds the keys. Read about jurisdictions and the CLOUD Act.