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

There is no option now to control the keyboard height. I have a Samsung Galaxy s22 ultra and the phone is too big and long and I would like to make the space between the keys smaller but I cannot do that for some reason now maybe it's because of the version? Maybe they will fix it in a later version.. I would have to stay tuned and look out for this in the future returning. But for now I deal with extending my thumbs in an uncomfortable way to press the keys. It's just annoying.

It's a very good, useful keyboard and I could never think of switching to another one or using the default Samsung keyboard. My only word of criticism is if there was at least an option in the settings to prevent you from deleting pinned text in the clipboard, I do roleplays often so I always save my roleplay headers in the pinned section of the clipboard for easy access, but sometimes I'll accidentally swipe them to the side and delete them and I'll miss the undo button.

GBoard has really become glitchy lately on my Android device, especially if I try to comment on a YouTube video. It freezes showing the letters standing out that I tapped. After a while, it sometimes works. It's now become glitchy in the Facebook app as of this morning. Will try to fix via uninstall and reinstall. If I switch to another keyboard, no glitches but I love the functionality of GBoard, when it works...

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