Anyone know a good android keyboard for people who don't want any autocorrect?

Gboard has an empty top row wasting screen space if you disable suggestions. AnySoftKeyboard seems pretty slow. At the moment I'm using Chrooma, but its backspace has really annoying bugs.

What I'd really love would be a keyboard with macro functionality and where you could configure your own layout. But I guess that doesn't exist :/

Have you tried Swift key and flexykey something!?

@elonmusk Fleksy*

@Retiixx too difficult to type also!

SwiftKey wouldn't let me disable the suggestions the last time I tried (I think a googled as well and found out it wasn't possible).

I just installed Fleksy and it has a limited range of special characters (accents, typographic quotation marks, ellipsis and so on are missing, umlauts are harder to reach). I might have get used to something like it, but that's a knock-out criterion. If anything, I want more special characters on my keyboard (like a mu, which even is on the standard windows keyboard, but remains to be found on android).

Thanks for the input anyway, @elonmusk!

@7400 I think gboard has the more special characters!

Not really a match but Swype has a ton of symbols and you can configure the height.

Also, haven't used them recently but A.I.type and hackers keyboard might offer exactly what you need.

Give Asus Keyboard a try.

Try the aosp keyboard. You won't have a separate numbers row, but its good.

try go keyboard

Thanks a lot for all the suggestions! I've got a lot of material to test now. Going to reply one by one now:

@nickpapoutsis Just installed Swype trial and it won't let me disable the suggestions :/. I'm now trying out a.i. type though and so far it doesn't look bad!

@hortensis That one is actually not that bad. Still not optimal as some characters I use a lot are harder to reach (üöß„…), but I might get used to that!

@codepoet Have not found that one on Play Store and neither on F-Droid. Is it a manufacturer-locked thing maybe?

@sysm9 Where should I get that from? I honestly don't know how trustworthy the sites I'd find are. I don't have that much experience with downloading APKs

Just buy an iPhone ;)

Turned off suggestions and no wasted screenspace

@Waqas I remember distantly trying that out a year or two back. I wasn't really satisfied for some reason I can't remember now, but I'll try it out again if AOSP/a.i. keyboard turn out to annoy me after all! Thanks anyhow!

@7400 yeah, Asus Keyboard comes bundled with Asus phones. But you can get the apk from someone who has Asus phone or from APKMirror

@umarpro95 OP already tried that. Have you even read the post?

@7400 I can't find a proper apk myself, sorry.

I'm using Cyanogenmod, so I got it by default.

You can, however, get google keyboard (not Gboard), late 2016 version, from apkmirror. It's a bit more feature-filled than aosp, but FAPP it's the same keyboard.

@sysm9 Yep, an old google keyboard version would have been my alternative, too. I liked it before they started to add more and more stuff which can't be turned off. But then I would have to download and install a lot of old APKs finding the optimal version – which, so far, is a bit too much work for me.

So at this moment I'm typing on a.i. keyboard and it seems like a good compromise for me. Only time will tell ;)

Well, thanks for all the recommendations! I wouldn't have anticipated this amount of feedback I got here!