Hi, I'm the person who wrote that code. We're not trying to harass people for money and it's been designed in a way I think is fair.

The unpaid reminder appears in the settings screen after the app is installed for 30 days, and once it appears there's a button that lets you postpone the reminder for up to infinity days. Of course nothing stops you from also just tapping "I already paid".

We don't validate license keys in FUTO Keyboard, we just have a payment system that issues them. The app can't connect to the internet, so it's not like there's an easy way to verify them anyway or stop people from just posting their key online.

Hi, I just want you to know that I'm blown away by your keyboard. I'm not even a native English speaker and it's incredible. After paying around with it for ten minutes I decided to pay the 5 dollars to show my support to this initiative.

I'm especially happy to see that you mdocumented how to use your own finetuned models and predictive text transformer. I'm betting it will end up enabling community driven multi-lingual dictionaries and transformers. Thanks a lot!

One feature request I have though is (although I understand the limitations of transformers) to seamlessly handle more than 30s of audio, even though it takes more time to transcribe it still is a huge pain to have to wait for the first to end writing to then speak again. It's not that difficult to queue audio segments right :)?

Also, the language choice picker from the keyboard shows the choices too high : on tall phones it's cumbersome to have to reach up there.

Also the beamsearch is "recommended" but it would be better to also mention that it makes the decoding way faster.

Overall, allowing more access to advanced settings would be awesome for tinkerers, for example choosing the depth of the beam search!

Anyway thanks a lot FUTO is awesome!

I apologize, "harass" was too strong of a word. The way the reminder works in and of itself hardly bothers me at all. I'm more upset on principle that there's anything at all that runs on my device that I'm not allowed to change.

I use Hacker's Keyboard for its arrow keys and ctrl (for copy and paste). I can't see useful keys like that mentioned as features of FUTO keyboard.

I'm running the keyboard right now and it has a text editor mode that gives you arrow keys, a capslock key, and clipboard keys, but I don't see a control or alt key.

It's a bit hidden but you can actually display the arrows keys while typing. You have to press the upper left arrow button to show extra menus

As a paying customer the answer is that you don't get any features other than a thing saying that you paid. It is similar to donating to Signal Foundation where you don't get some 'new feature' within the Signal app for having paid, you just get a little thing next to your user icon showing that you did. It is a support badge.