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Fcitx5 Chewing Plugin vs Trime: catalog facts
Fcitx5 Chewing Plugin	Trime
Free Free and open source under the LGPL-2.1 licence.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0-or-later licence.
Android	Android
Adds Zhuyin/Bopomofo input through the Chewing engine Shares the Fcitx5 framework used on Linux desktops	Built on the configurable RIME input framework Supports shape-based and phonetic input schemes
Requires the main Fcitx5 for Android app Keyboard layout is not customizable yet	Android only Setup of RIME schemas can take some learning
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: LGPL-2.1	License: GPL-3.0-or-later
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it 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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