Gboard - the Google Keyboard

Google LLC

About this app

Gboard has everything you love about Google Keyboard—speed and reliability, Glide Typing, voice typing, Handwriting, and more

Glide Typing — Type faster by sliding your finger from letter to letter

Voice typing — Easily dictate text on the go

Handwriting* — Write in cursive and printed letters

Emoji Search* — Find that emoji, faster

GIFs* — Search and share GIFs for the perfect reaction.

Multilingual typing — No more switching between languages manually. Gboard will autocorrect and suggest from any of your enabled languages.

Google Translate — Translate as you type in the keyboard

* Not supported on Android Go devices
Hundreds of language varieties, including:
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bavarian, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Burmese, Cebuano, Chhattisgarhi, Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, and others), Chittagonian, Czech, Deccan, Dutch, English, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hindi, Igbo, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Magahi, Maithili, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Northern Sotho, Odia, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Saraiki, Sindhi, Sinhala, Somali, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tswana, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu, and many more! Visit https://goo.gl/fMQ85U for the full list of languages supported

Wear OS support: Everything you love about the Google Keyboard now available on your watch—speed and reliability, Glide Typing, Voice Typing, and more

Glide Typing — Type faster by sliding your finger from letter to letter

Voice Typing — Easily dictate text on the go

Emoji Typing — Find your favorite emojis on your wrist

All Wear OS languages supported, including:
Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, and others), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, and many more!

Pro tips:
• Gesture cursor control: Slide your finger across the space bar to move the cursor
• Gesture delete: Slide left from the delete key to quickly delete multiple words
• Make the number row always available (enable in Settings → Preferences → Number Row)
• Symbols hints: Show quick hints on your keys to access symbols with a long press (enable in Settings → Preferences → Long press for symbols)
• One handed mode: On large screen phones, pin keyboard to the left or the right of the screen
• Themes: Choose your own theme, with or without key borders

Ratings and reviews

It's really easy to use and you are able to have all of your setting changes saved automatically so the stress of having to remember to save your changed settings isn't there which is quite nice. All in all I'm giving it a 4 star rating only because there are certain settings that aren't available to change and I would like to see them become available for everyone and then I will change my rating to a perfect 5 🌟!!!

Simply put, Gboard just does what it says it's supposed to do, and also keeps everything functioning properly; no less, no more. This feature is not to be confused with text to speech which takes up a lot of storage and is a hot mess !! I appreciate it more every day !! 😃😃😀😄😄 It has trillions of emoticons to express every mood without words, I just love it !! You don't need any other spelling service. Twelve stars !! Still loving Gboard, they haven't " improved" anything, so it's great !!

There appears to be an update that has negatively impact quality of life using the app. It used to have a useful feature that after adding punctuation, the keyboard would automatically switch back to the letters from the symbols. It no longer does that, which is unfortunate. I use a different keyboard than the one that came with the phone because it is more useful. If it's not more useful, there's not much point installing a new keyboard.

What's new

• Added Bitmoji sticker suggestions for Spanish and Portuguese (beta only)
• Download the beta version to give feedback on upcoming improvements https://goo.gl/8Ksj7x