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Iris Keyboard

Advanced FOSS keyboard with AI Copilot, translation, and key sound synthesis.

  • Free, with trade-offs
  • Android
  • Open source

Overview

Iris Keyboard is an on-screen keyboard, available on Android.

Features described in its GitHub repository: themes and dark mode.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Advanced FOSS keyboard with AI Copilot, translation, and key sound synthesis” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Iris extends typing into a powerful productivity workspace by integrating locally-run AI models, an offline translation suite, mechanical switch sound synthesis, and advanced clipboard tools.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Basic keyboard use works offline.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Iris keeps the lightweight, low-latency foundation of Simple Keyboard while integrating modern features: Material You dynamic coloring, a clipboard manager, offline and online translation, an optional AI assistant…” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Iris Keyboard is free, with trade-offs: it relies on a non-free online service.

Its licence (Apache-2.0) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

Weaknesses

  • Flagged by F-Droid: relies on a non-free online service

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from F-Droid — F-Droid (citation courte)

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