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Google Handwriting Input

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Google Handwriting Input allows you to handwrite text on your phone or tablet in 97 languages. It supports printed and cursive writing, with or without a stylus. Google Handwriting Input also supports hundreds of emojis, so you can express yourself in any Android app.

Key features:
• A useful complement to touchscreen typing or voice input
• A fun way to enter emojis by drawing
• Useful for languages that can be challenging to type on a standard keyboard
• Works across your Android phones and tablets running Android 4.0.3 and up
• If you claim your handwriting is terrible, try it out and see if it can convince you otherwise
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4.3
86,122 total
5 54,483
4 17,350
3 7,048
2 2,757
1 4,484
Jack Edmonds
Love the interface for handwriting but compared to the built-in Samsung keyboard's handwriting recognition, this app is rather poor. It often gets the words totally wrong where the Samsung keyboard nails them. You have to backspace and retry so many times it's really not worth it.
Kyle Gospodnetich
Android wear release please! This would be amazing there. The emoji drawing makes me smile every time. I'm amazed how bad my drawings are and yet it still understands me. Edit: Android Wear is here! Thanks again for this.
Farkas Gabor
Not a bad idea, it's just too slow to write with it. It's a pain to use this app. The regular Google keyboard with sliding feature is way better than this and that's hyperfast!
karen tonge
Why can't I get this to work on my huawei watch.. I uninstalled and installed several times... it doesn't show up.. when I looked in the settings it says not loaded..😕 but in personalization I picked the keyboard the language etc...
Albert Samson
The app is okay, but it is very frustrating to use on Android wear, because there are no controls for the speed, which means that you can't write charterers properly
Kareem Halabi
Works well on my LG G Watch R! Would be nice to change the speed though, it's a bit slow for me

User reviews

Jack Edmonds November 21, 2017
Love the interface for handwriting but compared to the built-in Samsung keyboard's handwriting recognition, this app is rather poor. It often gets the words totally wrong where the Samsung keyboard nails them. You have to backspace and retry so many times it's really not worth it.
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Kyle Gospodnetich July 14, 2017
Android wear release please! This would be amazing there. The emoji drawing makes me smile every time. I'm amazed how bad my drawings are and yet it still understands me. Edit: Android Wear is here! Thanks again for this.
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Farkas Gabor May 4, 2017
Not a bad idea, it's just too slow to write with it. It's a pain to use this app. The regular Google keyboard with sliding feature is way better than this and that's hyperfast!
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karen tonge May 25, 2017
Why can't I get this to work on my huawei watch.. I uninstalled and installed several times... it doesn't show up.. when I looked in the settings it says not loaded..😕 but in personalization I picked the keyboard the language etc...
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Albert Samson December 17, 2017
The app is okay, but it is very frustrating to use on Android wear, because there are no controls for the speed, which means that you can't write charterers properly
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Kareem Halabi April 12, 2017
Works well on my LG G Watch R! Would be nice to change the speed though, it's a bit slow for me
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Robert Farr September 6, 2017
Needs symbol design and theme to match the Gboard app... The design between both is inconsistent. Otherwise works fine
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Jupyter P August 28, 2017
CT y y u u i.u tt y
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Vamsikrishna Narra December 17, 2017
I like it
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Angelo Sumayao December 1, 2017
I like it
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Augusto Linan December 26, 2017
Nice and easy to use
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Omar Rodriguez August 14, 2017
Nice!!
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Lucian Andries June 28, 2017
Samsung Galaxy S7 - Awesome! But like everything, it's not perfect... Yet! Please add a button to enable it in the Gboard keyboard, NOT switching apps by pressing the switch language button. It doesn't make any sense! Why don't you incorporate it in Gboard? It's actually a very pertinent question. Then it will be a very easy to use feature.
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メェカシミヤ December 9, 2016
Understands even Cursive writings! I think this would be better if you append an user original definition character feature, for example Id' like to function for the cursor sliding to the next line by writing a char '/n'. And then this app is somewhat not good at recogning apostroph. I liked this!
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Michael Youngberg June 30, 2017
Word/symbol recognition seems pretty good. Really disapointed it doesn't recognise input for backspace, newline (carriage return), or other basic keyboard functions. If I could do everything on the pad Instead of having to find little buttons, it would be really awesome.
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Andrew Wilmar March 15, 2017
Very promising but needs some basic functionality. In particular it desperately needs swipe to delete multiple letters and words like gboard. Swiping right to left should select text for deletion. The undo button is poorly placed and clumsy to use.
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Sarah Fletcher December 5, 2016
Great! I'm using the app now, and while not the fastest method, it would be faster with a stylus and even without I think it is perfect for someone who finds themselves constanty making mistakes while typing. Extremely user friendly. ☺ One of my only complaints would be the difficulty in making emojis.
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rod4130 December 28, 2017
It's one of those things that u either love or hate. For me the novelty wore off quickly and I went back to g board with swipe like input after a couple of days. It's not a bad concept per se I just feel I input faster and more accurately with the g board.
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thejas p girish May 12, 2017
I have download and installed this app on my Huawei p8 lite. On settings I browse for Languages, I can not find Malayalam. All Huawei users are facing this problem. It was working fine on my old phone Micromax Unite 2. Please fix this problem.
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Christian Johnson April 20, 2017
Really disappointed because I couldn't change the setting to allow the app to work. Step one, Enable Google Handwriting Input. I even went to the help page for this info and all it said was that the app will either guide you, or you'll see it in the language settings. Neither was true for me. I don't think my device supports it. Samsung Chromebook Plus.
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Andrew Jehan January 24, 2017
It's a great interface for writing. Better and faster than Samsung's built-in interface. It just needs to have a button to quickly toggle to keyboard or voice input when you need it. Right now, you have to always use handwriting because switching with the keyboard settings is too inefficient.
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Daniel Ohm January 13, 2017
8nput seems to want s9me special k8nd 9f swipe, instead of actual character Handwrit8ng 8npit works but text is mak8mg 8nput severel6 flawed by autoselecr8mg n7mbers when I'm typing letters. Handwriting input is also wa6 too fast f9r a beginner level.
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Satyam saladi August 22, 2017
Hindi needs improvement. When you write a few words and want to add a word in between, the sentence does not accommodate as English does. but it gives circles of dots..word in the back ..or at the front deforms! But I thank God, google, android, the developers so much and bless them!
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Banis Edavanna June 11, 2017
Actually it's a nice app. I was using it for long time in my old Samsung phone. But now in my new Redmi when i am using Malayalam handwriting input, after writing in keyboard it comes only after pressing space. It's irritating a lot.
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May 14, 2017
difficult to navigate, very uncompatable with other apps. ItDoesn't evework in Google Docs!! I am using a Samsung Galaxy Tablet S 3 . It doesn't work fast, doesnt work well with chinese. Overall is terrible if you are a tablet user. It's a big mess... And Google does not CARE.
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T Shankar January 1, 2018
I have downloaded Google Handwriting Input on my Honor 6X, but there is no Tamil language option to select. Disappointed after trying installing several times.
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Gawtham S Akkarakattil May 20, 2017
Difficult in swyping, very bad prediction and not predicting at all times (not about password), very poor dictionary setting (Not saving my words and if saved it is not reproducing) and many more problems... Plz give a good update. For now I'm uninstalling this app.
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November 28, 2017
Because it is well worked before 2 week.... But it is not supporting to my phone from these days.... I can't select another input languages.when I take input language option the phone says that settings has been stopped....please reply....
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shijith kj January 8, 2017
Helpful and easy It works even if the phone does not support your language. Check it! Go to configure language, turn it off "system Ianguage" and and enable "active input method". English is default and select your languages also to your choice. Select "Handwriting input mode". Handwriting in old form also works in it. I wonder how care was given by Google for each language.....
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sarang mp February 21, 2017
All..Huawei user are facing this problem.... that we can't get Malayalam language for download... There is no change by Google side to clear this problem...for all Huawei users...... After the release of this app we are rising this questions...... still no response from...Google side
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Arjun Paudyal September 13, 2016
Nice App it is an useful app. Only problem I am facing is it is not an easy switch with Samsung keyboard. If loading it was as easy as switching the language it would have been best. Load handwritting, go to typing and start typing. Once you changed keyboard, repeat the boring again is irritating.
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Joe Rochinski September 22, 2016
It's a good start But still not as accurate as Samsung's handwriting recognition on my Note 7. I think Samsung's interface and the way it allows you to rapidly edit your input is also far superior. That said, competition breeds innovation and so I'm excited to see how this evolves over time.
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303tk4 January 26, 2017
Use this for typing Chinese but the keyboard shows up a few seconds after tapping a certain text field so I have to wait for a while.. why so laggy? Other apps are flying on this top-tier phone.
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Karl S. November 12, 2017
Not for a Samsung Note! It works OK with a finger or passive stylus, but poorly with an active stylus - bizarre word recognition necessitates frequent backspacing and manual correction. Editing what you have written is nowhere near as easy as with Samsung's handwriting input. I do like that there are separate language-specific keyboards, although voice dictation is in English only (unlike Google's own Gboard). Ease of switching between this and Gboard is a plus, since I like Gboard.
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Madden 284747 August 20, 2017
Great app for me because I study physics which involves a lot of Greek letters... the only letter I couldn't create on it, which is used in my studies, is the Hebrew letter aleph... but other than that very handy app for me
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Shyamprasad R February 16, 2017
Very hard for using this app. bcoz We r from Kerala and also needs Malayalam language only. But app automatically selected two languages. English & Malayalam. Sometimes selected only English. so are facing difficulties in this app.
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SAILESH S June 7, 2017
Does not allow download of any language other than English UK. Keeps crashing. Tried every fix, simple and ridiculously complex ways too. Nothing works. Utter waste.
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Sarah C. Mattman December 25, 2016
Handwritten Notes I love being able to not only "capture" my screen and write on it, but being able handwrite a message to someone is so much easier then typing it! And it recognizes even my sloppy handwriting! ♥️
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Erich Alderfer June 12, 2017
I'm really impressed. My handwritting is terrible, but this app almost always gets it right! I certainly prefer a traditional onscreeen keyboard on my phone, but I could see how it might be useful for a tablet.
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David Chon November 3, 2016
Major Flaw Amazing handwriting recognition. Google blows expectations out of the water, as usual. One major problem is, no one wants to use handwriting all the time, yet there is no way to change back to keyboard mode without exiting your current task and finding system settings. This cumbersome aspect forces one to choose to strictly use handwriting or keyboard only. I choose keyboard only. tldr - needs an easy way to change between writing input and keyboard input directly from the interface
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What's New

• Adds recognition support for Corsican, Hawaiian, Kazakh, Luxembourgish, Samoan, Scottish Gaelic, Shona, Tajik, Uzbek, and Western Frisian.
• Accuracy improvements for several languages.
• Adds support for additional Emoji.
• Android N compatibility.
• Various bug fixes.

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April 12, 2017
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