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Fcitx5 for Android vs Guileless Bopomofo: catalog facts
Fcitx5 for Android	Guileless Bopomofo
Free Free and open source under the LGPL-2.1 licence.	Free Free and open source under the GPL.
Android	Android
Many Chinese input schemes built in RIME plugin with custom schema import	Uses libchewing for intelligent phonetic conversion Implements most libchewing features
Keyboard layout is not customizable yet Google Play builds use a different signature from GitHub and F-Droid builds	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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