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Fcitx5 Chewing Plugin vs Guileless Bopomofo: catalog facts
Fcitx5 Chewing Plugin	Guileless Bopomofo
Free Free and open source under the LGPL-2.1 licence.	Free Free and open source under the GPL.
Android	Android
Adds Zhuyin/Bopomofo input through the Chewing engine Shares the Fcitx5 framework used on Linux desktops	Uses libchewing for intelligent phonetic conversion Implements most libchewing features
Requires the main Fcitx5 for Android app Keyboard layout is not customizable yet	No fuzzy or error-tolerant input Android only
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: LGPL-2.1	License: GPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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