Gboard
Mobile keyboard offers integrated web search, shared GIFs, fast glide typing, emoji search, voice input, predictive suggestions, and real-time sharing of news, images, locations, or videos, supporting multiple languages and privacy controls for varied input needs.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Android Wear
- Android TV
Features
Properties
- Support for Themes
- Lightweight
Features
- Speech to text
- Clipboard monitoring
- Swipe Typing
- Auto Correction
- Emoji search
- Dark Mode
- Ad-free
- Integrated Search
Tags
- Gif
- Emoji Keyboard
- integrated-gif-search
- google-search
- gif-keyboard
Gboard News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Gboard
Gboard is introducing 'Scan Text' feature for easier text copying from physical objectsGboard, Google's popular keyboard, is initiating the deployment of a new 'Scan Text' feature on And...
- Maoholguin published news article about Gboard
Google's Gboard beta tests new 'Scan text' feature for direct text extraction from imagesGoogle's Official Android keyboard app, Gboard, is reportedly beta testing a new Scan text feature ...
- Danilo_Venom published news article about Gboard
Gboard Beta 13.3 unveils new features: Stylus Handwriting Mode, Compact Voice Typing UI and AI-Powered Proofreading and StickersThe latest beta version of Gboard, 13.3, is developing new features like a stylus handwriting mode,...
Recent activities
urikdev added Gboard as alternative to Urik Keyboard- khazbury liked Gboard
- soul1472 reviewed Gboard
whenever i checked how many cache it stores from text, it showed 15+Mb. what. if you don't mind surveillance (living ±safe), then it could be useful. if you're an activist or someone in danger, don't use it.
plus of this keyboard, however, is having some indigenous languages. adding 1 star for it.
- alternativeto-greeting400 liked Gboard
crse added Gboard as alternative to Sumire Japanese Keyboard- kultegin added Support for Themes as a feature to Gboard
- kultegin rated Gboard
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What is Gboard?
Gboard is a keyboard from Google for your iOS and Android. It has all the things you would expect from a great keyboard — GIFs, emojis, and Glide Typing — plus 
Google Search built in. No more app switching; just search and send, right from your keyboard.
Search and send anything from Google:
• Nearby stores and restaurants • Videos and images • Weather forecasts • News and articles • Sports scores • And anything else you’d search on Google
GIFs — Search GIFs for the best reaction
Emoji Search— Find the perfect emoji, faster
Glide Typing — Type faster by sliding your finger from letter to letter
Gboard information
Developed by
Google Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 2.7Alternatives
66 alternatives listedNews
4 news article related to GboardSupported Languages
- English
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Basque
- Belarusian
- Bengali
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Burmese
- Khmer
- Catalan; Valencian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- Galician
- Georgian
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Kannada
- Kazakh
- Kirghiz, Kyrgyz
- Korean
- Lao
- Latvian
- Lingala
- Lithuanian
- Macedonian
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Maltese
- Marathi
- Mongolian
- Nepali
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Panjabi, Punjabi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Chinese
- Sinhala, Sinhalese
- Slovak
- Slovene
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tagalog
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Uzbek
- Vietnamese
- Welsh
- Zulu
AlternativeTo Categories
Online Services, OS & UtilitiesApple AppStore
- Updated
- 4.03 avg rating
Comments and Reviews
I've been using swiftkey and swype on iOS for a while, but Gboard beats both of them hands down..
I was using Gboard, it is very good for google search integration but there is one fatal reason why i stopped using it : Keyboard Resize (Very Important for big finger like me)
It now has a keyboard resizing function.
Not privacy friendly.
whenever i checked how many cache it stores from text, it showed 15+Mb. what. if you don't mind surveillance (living ±safe), then it could be useful. if you're an activist or someone in danger, don't use it.
plus of this keyboard, however, is having some indigenous languages. adding 1 star for it.
Does not have swipe spacebar to change languages option
Owned by Google, so no privacy and untrustworthy
One of the most versatile keyboards.
While functionally Gboard is fine, you'll find the same functionally elsewhere without the bad parts. Gboard is not your friend, just like proprietary virtual keyboards in general aren't your friend.
1/5 stars might seem harsh, but I'd argue it's not unreasonable when you consider how little respect they have for your privacy and security. It's proprietary and depends on faith rather than trust. And that faith has been shown to be disrespected. It has unecessary bloat that doesn't do anything good for its users but only serves to benefit Google and its many partners.
So why use Gboard when OpenBoard offers the same while being debloated and open source? OpenBoard is privacy-oriented as opposed to Gboard. There are other alternatives as well that are great, however, from my testing and experience, OpenBoard is the best.