Gboard - the Google Keyboard

Keyboard for everyday typing

Gboard - the Google Keyboard is a mobile keyboard for Android phones and Wear OS watches. It suits people who want more ways to enter text than tapping individual keys, with tools for sliding across letters, dictating messages, writing by hand, and inserting emoji or GIFs.

Typing tools

Glide Typing lets you move from letter to letter without lifting your finger, while voice typing turns spoken words into text. Handwriting input supports both printed and cursive writing. Emoji search helps locate a specific symbol, and GIF search provides a way to find and share animated reactions from the keyboard.

• Slide across the space bar to move the text cursor.
• Swipe from the delete key to remove several words quickly.
• Keep a number row visible through the keyboard preferences.
• Use long-press symbol hints for quicker access to punctuation and other characters.
• Switch to one-handed mode when a large phone screen is difficult to use with one hand.

Languages and translation

Gboard supports a wide range of languages and language varieties, including English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Russian and many others. Multiple enabled languages can be used together, allowing suggestions and autocorrection without changing keyboards manually. Google Translate is also available directly from the keyboard for translating as you type.

At a glance

Published by Google LLC in the Tools category, the app uses package name com.google.android.inputmethod.latin. It has a 4.53 rating from more than 18 million reviews and 10,000,000,000+ installs. Wear OS support brings typing, voice input and emoji entry to compatible watches, with the available languages depending on the device.