Gboard

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.

The customization settings are excellent, and the option to transfer those settings device to device with your Google account is incredibly handy.

Pros :

• Preinstalled on most android devices
• GIFs, emojis, and Glide Typing — plus Search built in.
• Cloud Backup Not Supported (now supported)
• 120 Languange Supports
• Keyboard Customization not supported (now supported)

**Cons : **

• Prediction are not synced
• Languange such as japanese and chinese become separate gboard instead of within single gboard