Gboard - the Google Keyboard

Fast and smart typing with Emojis, GIFs, and more

Gboard - the Google Keyboard: Fast & Smart Typing

Gboard - the Google Keyboard is a feature-rich typing app by Google that enhances your texting experience with Glide Typing, voice input, emojis, and GIF sharing. It supports a wide range of languages and integrates Google Translate for seamless communication. Gboard offers advanced gesture controls, customizable themes, and Wear OS compatibility, making typing efficient and enjoyable across all devices. Discover a more productive way to type with Gboard's smart features.

App stats

Version: VARY (Last updated: 2024-11-21)
Creation date: 2013-06-05
Permissions
Identity: find accounts on the device, read your own contact card
Contacts: find accounts on the device, read your contacts
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage
Camera: take pictures and videos
Microphone: record audio
Wi-Fi connection information: view Wi-Fi connections
Other:
  • download files without notification
  • view network connections
  • change network connectivity
  • measure app storage space
  • full network access
  • read terms you added to the dictionary
  • run at startup
  • use accounts on the device
  • control vibration
  • prevent device from sleeping
  • add words to user-defined dictionary
  • read Google service configuration

Other platforms

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App summary

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

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Easy to switch between multiple languages
  • Good predictive text feature
  • Customizable keyboard layout and settings
  • Consistent performance across devices
  • Useful additional features like GIFs and editing tools
Cons
  • Autocorrect frequently makes incorrect changes
  • Keyboard layout changes can be frustrating
  • Issues with the split keyboard on larger devices
  • Updates can worsen performance or alter usability
  • Voice-to-text feature often misinterprets input
Most mentioned
  • Autocorrect problems
  • Keyboard size/layout issues
  • Predictive text inaccuracies
  • User experience with updates
  • Language switching capabilities
User reviews
I been with T MOBILE for 21 years of course SAMSUNG was also part of all. I was having issues a lot. When they said there's a update me and many ppl did it, but always a issue, nothing real bad just a pain. Yes update is to keep cell running in a good way. WE had our choice to update or not. Then we lost our personal ways. Now you have no say, so it was like saying they r in total control. So was glad to make the change best thing on phones I did. Thanks 👍 GOOGLE
by EDWARD GOLLISH, 2024-11-24

Nov 24, 2024: . . . . Gboard, on my Moto G Play 2023, sometimes changes words (such as 'that' and 'this') by splitting them into two other words with a space btwn. Hard to explain. Autocorrect, Predictive Typing & word suggestions--all that-- are off, but Gboard still acts weird. Deleting cache hasn't helped. When Caps On arrow is selected, the comma and 'a' keep getting typed by mistake because letters are too close together or misaligned. Gboard on this phone is an absolute typing hassle.
by Penny Manning, 2024-11-24

Before the current update, this app was 5 stars-Incredible/Perfect and so amazingly helpful. I used this as my default on everyone and as an expat, it was one tool I couldn't live without. After the update? Negative 10 stars. The keyboard size was reduced with no way to revert it, the keysize is impossible for folks with bigger hands to use. The voice to text feature is now unusable, no matter what anyone does. The search function was broken. And none of the settings save. Plz fix this!!
by Raymond Powers, 2024-11-23
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