Sponsor the work
Sponsoring is not buying anything. There is nothing here to buy.
There is no company behind these apps and nothing to unlock. SideType, SideCall and SideHome are free and open source. There is no paid version, no feature held back, and no plan to make one. Nothing on this site changes if nobody sponsors it.
What sponsorship does is make it reasonable to keep spending evenings on a phone that maybe a few thousand people own. Bug reports get answered, languages get added, and the next idea gets built.
I am not going to itemise it. This is not a funding round with a burn rate; it is support for work you have found useful, and any amount counts as that.
Sponsors are listed in the app READMEs if they’d like to be, and nowhere at all if they wouldn’t.
Other ways, if not money
Money is not the only way to help, and some of these are worth more:
- Report a bug. Especially a language one. SideType’s layouts were generated for every Latin-script language and only three, English, Finnish and German, have been typed out by hand. If you write any of the others, you can see things I can’t.
- Add a language layout. Some languages are still waiting for a key layout to be drawn up; their dictionaries are already bundled. It is a contained job and the repo explains the format.
- Tell me how it went on your network, in your country. Compatibility varies in ways I can’t test from Finland, and this site will eventually have a page for exactly that.
- Tell another owner. There are not many of us, and none of this is advertised anywhere.