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v3.7.9 Release

17 May 12:05

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Whats new

  • User can now choose separate model for translation
  • Added touchpad mode toolkey (avoid using it with float for now)
    • two finger tap to Enter
    • two finger scroll for faster scrolling
    • long press and drag to select text
    • tap the toolbar key to enable or disable
    • independent from the spacebar swipe up touchpad mode
  • Fix User-Agent header for AI services
  • Stability improvements for floating keyboard and emoji bar
  • Optimize settings container filter loop
  • Refactor binary dictionary lock naming
  • Extract hardcoded API endpoints to strings.xml
  • some other bug fixes and ui improvement

Notes

  • We're working hard to make our apps the best they can be. We are entirely funded by the community, if you want to help us reach our next development milestone, please consider becoming a sponsor, Thank you to all our current supporters!


📦 Downloads (Choose Your Flavour)

File Description Permissions
standard-release.apk Recommended. AI Features enabled (Gemini/Groq). Internet
offline-release.apk Privacy Focused. No Internet. Offline AI Only. No Internet
offlinelite-release.apk Minimalist. Pure FOSS. No AI code. No Internet

v3.7.8 Release

10 May 19:27

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Whats new 🎉

  • Latest AI models will be auto fetched
  • Long press translate key to select the target language
  • Improved initial setup page
  • Added narrow key gap slider
  • Fixed emoji suggestion crash
  • Fixed some other minor bugs

Notes

  • Since all the models will be auto fetched, make sure you select the text based models
  • Translation are up to the Model you selected, gemini and qwen models are recommended
  • Model list filter were removed hopping use it future functions

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File Description Permissions
standard-release.apk Recommended. AI Features enabled (Gemini/Groq). Internet
offline-release.apk Privacy Focused. No Internet. Offline AI Only. No Internet
offlinelite-release.apk Minimalist. Pure FOSS. No AI code. No Internet

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v3.7.7 Release

10 May 05:01

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Whats new 🎉

  • Slightly improve suggestions
  • Fixed some other bugs
  • App optimisation
  • Added a theme by shigeorei

Notes

  • Sorry for late release
  • There will be frequent beta releases now on

v3.7.6 Release

08 Apr 20:06

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Added Features

  • Added Floating keyboard feature
  • Added toggle for auto hide pinned keys
  • Added toggle for auto fold toolbar

Fixed

  • One hand mode crash
  • Other minor fixes

Note

  • Take your clipboard backup before updating
    (only if you updating from 3.7.4, 3.7.5 had database change)

v3.7.5 Release

23 Mar 10:56

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What's New

✨ New Features

  • Screenshot Suggestions in Toolbar — Real-time screenshot suggestions appear in the toolbar for quick sharing (disabled by default, enable in Settings > Text correction)
  • Automatic Screenshot Clipboard Saving — Recently taken screenshots are automatically saved to clipboard history, need to toggle on screenshot suggestion
  • Clipboard Delete Undo — Accidentally deleted a clipboard item? A timed undo bar lets you recover it instantly

⚙️ Fixes & Tweaks

  • Fixed emoji recent tab
  • General performance and stability improvements

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File Description Permissions
standard-release.apk Recommended. AI Features enabled (Gemini/Groq). Internet
offline-release.apk Privacy Focused. No Internet. Offline AI Only. No Internet
offlinelite-release.apk Minimalist. Pure FOSS. No AI code. No Internet

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v3.7.4 Release

04 Mar 16:04

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v3.7.4 - UI Polish, Icon Refresh & Bug Fixes

🚀 What's New

🎨 UI & Design

  • Monochrome Icon Support: Full Android 13+ themed (monochrome) icon with a custom keyboard-style design.
  • Improved Custom AI Key UI: Streamlined the AI key creation dialog for a cleaner, more intuitive experience.
  • Settings UI Polish: Various refinements across settings screens for improved readability and consistency.

⚙️ Toolbar & Split Mode

  • Split Toolbar Improvements: Optimized dual toolbar to fully utilize the second bar for emoji search and paging.
  • Fixed Pinned Keys in Split Mode: Pinned key actions are now correctly disabled when split toolbar is active, preventing visual glitches.
  • Fixed Auto-Show Toolbar Conflict: "Auto show toolbar on select" no longer causes the toolbar to open on keyboard launch—it now strictly responds only to text selection.

🔍 Search Fixes

  • Emoji Search Auto-Close: The emoji search bar now properly closes when switching keyboard layouts or dismissing the emoji view.
  • Clipboard Search Auto-Close: Same fix applied to the clipboard search bar for consistent behavior.

📚 Libraries & Resources

  • Emoji Dictionary Download: Added a download button in the Libraries section within settings for quick emoji dictionary setup.
  • Features Link: Added a direct link to the Features guide from the Libraries section.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Settings Search Overlay: Resolved a black overlay appearing on sub-settings pages when the search bar was active.
  • General Optimizations: Minor performance and stability improvements.

📦 Downloads (Choose Your Flavor)

File Description Permissions
standard-release.apk Recommended. AI Features enabled (Gemini/Groq). Internet
offline-release.apk Privacy Focused. No Internet. Offline AI Only. No Internet
offlinelite-release.apk Minimalist. Pure FOSS. No AI code. No Internet

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v3.7.3 Release

28 Feb 19:44

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v3.7.3 - AI Model Refresh, Emoji Fixes & UI Polish

A feature and bugfix release that updates AI model lists, improves the Custom AI Keys experience, and squashes several UI bugs.

🚀 What's New

🤖 AI Updates

  • Updated Gemini Models: Added latest models including Gemini 2.5 Flash/Pro, Gemini 3.x previews, and Gemma 3 variants. Removed discontinued models.
  • Updated Groq Models: Added Llama 4 Maverick, Kimi K2, GPT-OSS 20B, Groq Compound, and more.
  • Keyword Selectors: New keyword selectors for AI prompts.
  • Improved Custom AI Keys Config: Better configuration flow for custom AI keys.

⚙️ Settings & UI

  • Settings Refinement: Cleaner and more polished settings screens.
  • Select Auto Open Toolbar: New option to auto-open the toolbar on text selection.

😀 Emoji

  • More Emoticons: Expanded the built-in emoticon collection.
  • Fixed Emoji Search: Emoji search now works correctly.
  • Fixed Emoji Preview: Emoji preview display has been fixed.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed One-Hand Mode: Resolved issues with one-hand keyboard mode.
  • Fixed Groq model api: Resolved issues Groq API requests routed to OpenAI.

I don't remember the other changes. Here is the full changelog:

Full Changelog: v3.7.2...v3.7.3

📦 Downloads (Choose Your Flavor)

File Description Permissions
standard-release.apk Recommended. AI Features enabled (Gemini/Groq). Internet
offline-release.apk Privacy Focused. No Internet. Offline AI Only. No Internet
offlinelite-release.apk Minimalist. Pure FOSS. No AI code. No Internet

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Release v3.7.2 Rebrand

30 Jan 19:03

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v3.7.2 - Reborn as LeanType

We are excited to introduce LeanType!
This is a major release that rebrands the project from "HeliboardL" to LeanType with a cleaner identity and a new package name (com.leanbitlab.leantype).

Important

⚠️ Migration Required: Uninstall & Reinstall
Because the package name has changed to com.leanbitlab.leantype, this will not install as an update over previous versions.

  1. Backup: Go to Settings > Backup and Restore in your current version and save your backup.
  2. Uninstall: Remove the old version.
  3. Install: Install LeanType v3.7.2.
  4. Restore: Go to Settings > Backup and Restore and load your backup file.

🚀 What's New

🎨 Visual & UI Overhaul

  • Rebranding: Fresh new "LeanType" identity and icons.
  • Settings Redesign: A cleaner, more modern Settings menu layout with improved organization.
  • Polished Interface: Refined iconography throughout the keyboard.

🔎 Emoji Search

  • Find Emojis Fast: You can now search for emojis by name!
    • Note: Requires loading an Emoji Dictionary in Settings > Text correction > Dictionary or use Download button.

🤖 AI Additions

  • Qwen/DeepSeek Support: Automatically strips <think> tags from reasoning models to keep proofreading clean.
    • Tip: Use the new #showthought keyword if you want to see the reasoning process.

📦 Downloads (Choose Your Flavor)

File Description Permissions
standard-release.apk Recommended. AI Features enabled (Gemini/Groq). Internet
offline-release.apk Privacy Focused. No Internet. Offline AI Only. No Net
offlinelite-release.apk Minimalist. No AI code. No Net

Built by LeanBitLab

Release v3.7.1

26 Jan 20:46

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Release v3.7.1

🚀 New Features

  • Custom AI Keys: Added Custom AI Keys support to the Standard flavor!
    • 👉 Check the Features Guide to learn how to use keywords like #proofread, #editor, and #append.
  • Clipboard Search: You can now search your clipboard history directly from the toolbar.
  • Offline AI Performance: Added Keep model loaded setting (Offline flavor) to reduce delay by keeping the model in memory.
  • New Themes: Added 2 new keyboard themes.
  • New Dictionary: Added English (Canada) dictionary (en-CA).

🛠️ Improvements & Fixes

  • Visibility Fixes:
    • Correctly hidden Custom AI keys in Offline/Offline Lite flavors (Settings & Toolbar).
    • Fixed Pinned Keys visibility in suggestion strip for offline builds.
  • Code Cleanup: Optimized ToolbarUtils and settings screens.

Artifacts:

  • standard: Full feature set (AI + Custom Keys).
  • offline: Privacy focused (Local Proofreading, No Custom Keys).
  • offlinelite: Minimal (No AI).

v3.7.0

23 Jan 09:59

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What's New in v3.7.0

Standard version and offline version were reuploaded

🚀 Features & Improvements

  • Groq API Separation: Groq now has its own dedicated settings for API key and model, preventing conflicts with OpenAI/HuggingFace credentials.
    this fixed in reuploaded standard apk
  • OfflineLite Cleanup:
    • Removed unsupported 'Proofread' and 'Translate' keys from the toolbar options.
    • Hidden AI settings from search results to avoid confusion.
  • Settings Refinement: Moved 'Personal Dictionary' toggle to the Dictionaries screen for better discoverability.
  • Rebranding: Updated app slogan to 'Privacy-focused keyboard with AI enhancements'.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Crashes: Fixed some bugs caused by dictionary, fixed recommeded offline model load crash
  • Error Messages: Fixed error toasts for missing API keys to correctly point to Settings → AI integration instead of the old 'Advanced' path.
  • UI Labels: Fixed 'Get Groq Key' button appearing in the wrong provider settings.
  • Search Visibility: Hidden cloud AI settings (Gemini, Groq, HF) from search results in the offline flavor.

🛠️ Under the Hood

  • Refactored toolbar preference logic for better maintainability.
  • Updated build configuration.