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Guileless Bopomofo vs Fcitx5 for Android: catalog facts
Guileless Bopomofo	Fcitx5 for Android
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	Many Chinese input schemes built in RIME plugin with custom schema import
No fuzzy or error-tolerant input Android only	Keyboard layout is not customizable yet Google Play builds use a different signature from GitHub and F-Droid builds
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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