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Guileless Bopomofo vs Fcitx5 Chewing Plugin: catalog facts
Guileless Bopomofo	Fcitx5 Chewing Plugin
Free Free and open source under the GPL.	Free Free and open source under the LGPL-2.1 licence.
Android	Android
Uses libchewing for intelligent phonetic conversion Implements most libchewing features	Adds Zhuyin/Bopomofo input through the Chewing engine Shares the Fcitx5 framework used on Linux desktops
No fuzzy or error-tolerant input Android only	Requires the main Fcitx5 for Android app Keyboard layout is not customizable yet
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: LGPL-2.1
No account needed	No account needed
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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