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 gets the job done. Several times my settings have been inadvertently changed while phone was in my pocket and its not so easy to track down the exact setting to change it back. Several options that you can choose to enable/disable but there is no discription of what they actually do. Would be nice if you could tap on it for an explanation like you can sometimes do in phone settings. I feel it could be more intuitve and the options easier to understand for the tech challenged users like me.

I really wish that it had where special keys could be accessed by long-pressing a letter. I'm not a fan of having to switch the keyboard to the special keys one. I mainly love this because of the semi-customisable emojis (I wish there were way way more combos) - the only thing I don't like is that they send so huge! They usually end up having the sides of the image cut off when using Snapchat. I wish there was an option to select a size. Otherwise, it's a good keyboard.

The main thing that's keeping me from switching over permanently is long pressing for special characters. On my other app they are conveniently spread out along the keyboard, which also allows quick and easy access to less common characters. Here you have all the most common ones jammed under one key and that's it. It usually takes me a couple of tries to get anything thats not directly by the main key. Predictive text is a heck of a lot better though, so that's nice.

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