Gboard - the Google Keyboard

Name: Gboard - the Google Keyboard
Rating: 4.5403557 (16938733 reviews)
Author: Google LLC

Fast and smart typing with Emojis, GIFs, and more

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Gboard, the Google Keyboard extension, enhances your typing with speed and smart features. Enjoy Glide Typing for sliding your fingers effortlessly, voice typing for hands-free input, and handwriting recognition. Quickly find emojis and GIFs to enrich your messages. Support for hundreds of languages with automatic multilingual typing eliminates manual switching.

Additional features include Google Translate integration, gesture-based cursor control and deletion, customizable number row and key symbols, one-handed mode, and theme personalization. Gboard also supports Wear OS, bringing fast, reliable typing and emoji support to smartwatches. Experience an all-in-one keyboard designed for efficient and expressive communication.

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By:

Google LLC

Downloads:

10,621,868,149 43.54M

Rating:

4.54

(16,938,733) 32,099 new ratings

Version:

15.4.8.755290236-release-arm64-v8a Last updated: 2025-06-16

Version code:

169352450

Creation date:

2013-06-05

Permissions:

android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE
android.permission.CAMERA
android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE
android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS
android.permission.GET_PACKAGE_SIZE
android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_PROFILES
android.permission.INTERNET
android.permission.QUERY_USERS
android.permission.READ_CONTACTS

Size:

84.64MB

Email:

gb*****@google.com

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Google Play Store

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 13 ▲ 1

Other rankings

#38 in Android wear (Free) ▲ 1

#1 in keyboard keyword 48

#2 in personalize keyword 11 ▼ 1

#2 in speech to text keyword 45 ▲ 2

#3 in input keyword 35

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User reviews

Users generally like Gboard for its smooth typing, multilingual support, and customizability, including themes and clipboard features. However, several users report significant issues with autocorrect inaccuracies, faulty voice typing with microphone problems, and failures in auto-capitalization. The keyboard sometimes unexpectedly deletes or changes words, causing frustration. Interface changes to the emoji keyboard and loss of custom dictionaries after updates further contribute to negative experiences. While many remain loyal, these recurring problems lead some users to consider alternative keyboards.

Pros

Smooth typing experience with good predictive text and multilingual support.
Custom backgrounds feature appreciated by long-term users.
Reliable and user-friendly layout with deep features appreciated by users familiar with the app.
Good clipboard functionality and seamless language switching.
Voice typing feature, when working well, is praised for convenience.

Cons

Autocorrect accuracy has significantly worsened, changing correctly spelled words into incorrect alternatives frequently.
Voice typing/microphone feature is often faulty, requiring multiple attempts and sometimes stopping abruptly.
Issues with capitalization, especially auto-capitalization of proper nouns and sentence-starting letters not working.
Auto-replacement or deletion of text unexpectedly, such as backspace deleting multiple words or words being changed after dictation.
Emoji keyboard UI changes leading to poor usability on smaller screens.
Resetting of personal dictionary with updates and intrusive auto-correct behavior that users find frustrating.

Recent reviews

I like this Gboard had a few bugs a week ago. I think it's working once again. Don't know what happened? Was acting crazy. 😵‍💫But seems it's back to normal. Never experienced anything how this was acting. Flipping in and out, going into commercials very strange. Thought maybe a viruse but it wasn't ran many checks. Thanks for your help post. I was able to get it back to normal. 😥 Whew! 🥵 Phone wasnt in operation condition because of the Gboard WOW! 🤨 Again your help & information works.

Ca*****, 2025-01-28

The autocorrect has gotten significantly worse recently. It replaces words in sentences trying to to use context to fix it. (Just had to change it during this review from "on sentences" to "in sentences" which is what I typed.) It is now slower to type with autocorrect than without because you have to fight with it. Sometimes you have to correct it's errors more than once on the same word.