I've used Unexpected Keyboard and FlorisBoard and I'd say that they're great introductory FOSS apps for most users (users inexperienced to sudden changes)

Unexpected Keyboard uses Nix in their codebase :D
Thumb-Key is maintained by dessalines whom is a Lemmy dev
Florisboard is starting to convert their codebase to Rust,
- literally their commit to main yesterday:
  
  "Switch native code to Rust"
so this is pretty awesome to see!!

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[–] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

For gestures/swipe-typing I do know that all 3 have that feature
unfortunately I can't provide reviews on it as I still tap to type, haven't had time to retrain unfortunately

For Florisboard's features I really like their sea of options for customizability:

it gives me Arch Linux vibes as it give you plenty to fiddle around with like:
hinted symbols/number row, built-in Incognito mode, undo&redo, built-in dev tool toggles, customizations backup&restore, etc
gripes wise is wanting remap keys but this is such an insignificant gripe considering all the features they've implemented
- I'd imagine that this is a potential feature down the far future

For Unexpected Keyboard, the features it provided was actually unexpected:

like I didn't expect to get a Ctrl, Fn, ESC button, like wtf that's pretty awesome!
it also has a single button arrow d-pad!
essentially this has all the keys on a desktop keyboard
gripes wise I wish there was a language indicator for when I'm switching between dvorak, qwerty, and Korean
- this is also a very small nitpick that will probably get implemented later on

I haven't used Thumb-Keys but I've seen good reviews about it so it's worth a shot as well 👍