HeliBoard
Customizable open-source keyboard
- License
- GPL-3.0-only
- Package
helium314.keyboard- Category
- Keyboard & IME, System
- Latest version
- 4.2 · Oct 25, 2026
- Minimum Android
- Android 5.0
Screenshots
Description
HeliBoard is a privacy-conscious open-source keyboard, based on AOSP / OpenBoard.
Does not use internet permission, and thus is 100% offline.
Features:
• 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
Does not use internet permission, and thus is 100% offline.
Features:
• 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
All versions
| Version | Released | Minimum Android | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.2 | Oct 25, 2026 | Android 5.0 | 21.4 MB |
| 4.1 | Aug 31, 2026 | Android 5.0 | 21.4 MB |
| 4.0 | Jul 12, 2026 | Android 5.0 | 21.2 MB |
| 4.0-beta1 | Jul 1, 2026 | Android 5.0 | 21.2 MB |
| 3.9 | Mar 31, 2026 | Android 5.0 | 21.5 MB |
| 3.8 | Mar 11, 2026 | Android 5.0 | 21.5 MB |
| 3.7 | Mar 2, 2026 | Android 5.0 | 21.4 MB |
| 3.6 | Nov 29, 2025 | Android 5.0 | 21.2 MB |
| 3.5 | Oct 23, 2025 | Android 5.0 | 21.1 MB |
| 3.4 | Oct 12, 2025 | Android 5.0 | 21.1 MB |
| 3.3 | Sep 9, 2025 | Android 5.0 | 21 MB |
| 3.2 | Jun 15, 2025 | Android 5.0 | 22.1 MB |
| 3.1 | Jun 7, 2025 | Android 5.0 | 22.1 MB |
| 3.0 | May 18, 2025 | Android 5.0 | 22.2 MB |
| 3.0-beta4 | May 11, 2025 | Android 5.0 | 22.2 MB |
| 2.3 | Jan 17, 2025 | Android 5.0 | 20.8 MB |
| 2.2 | Jul 30, 2024 | Android 5.0 | 20.6 MB |
| 2.1 | Jul 3, 2024 | Android 5.0 | 20.6 MB |
| 2.0 | Jun 28, 2024 | Android 5.0 | 20.6 MB |
| 1.3 | Apr 22, 2024 | Android 5.0 | 20.4 MB |
| 1.3-beta1 | Apr 17, 2024 | Android 5.0 | 20.4 MB |
| 1.2 | Apr 6, 2024 | Android 5.0 | 20.4 MB |
How to install an older version of an Android app · How to install an APK file on Android
From the developer (GitHub)
APK files published by the developer on GitHub. They are signed by the developer and may not install over the other builds on this page (different signature). Links open github.com.
v4.3-beta1
Pre-release · Oct 18, 2026
HeliBoard_4.3-beta1-debug.apk
26 MB HeliBoard_4.3-beta1-nouserlib.apk
21.4 MB HeliBoard_4.3-beta1-release.apk
21.4 MB v4.2
· Oct 12, 2026
HeliBoard_4.2-debug.apk
26 MB HeliBoard_4.2-nouserlib.apk
21.4 MB HeliBoard_4.2-release.apk
21.4 MB v4.2-beta1
Pre-release · Oct 4, 2026
HeliBoard_4.2-beta1-debug.apk
26 MB HeliBoard_4.2-beta1-nouserlib.apk
21.4 MB HeliBoard_4.2-beta1-release.apk
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