Gboard is packed with features that enhance your typing experience, including glide typing, voice typing, and support for multiple languages. It's everything you love about the Google Keyboard, but with even more speed and reliability.
Glide Typing lets you type faster by effortlessly sliding your finger from letter to letter, making your typing experience smoother and more efficient.
Voice Typing allows you to easily dictate text on the go, perfect for when you're multitasking or on the move.
Handwriting* enables you to write in both cursive and printed letters, offering a more personalized way to input text.
Emoji Search* helps you find the perfect emoji faster, adding a fun and expressive touch to your messages.
GIFs* let you search and share the perfect reaction, making your conversations more lively and engaging.
Multilingual Typing means you no longer need to switch between languages manually. Gboard will autocorrect and suggest from any of your enabled languages, making it seamless to communicate in multiple languages.
Google Translate integrates directly into the keyboard, allowing you to translate as you type, which is incredibly useful for multilingual communication.
*Not supported on Android Go devices.
Gboard supports 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 supported languages.
Gboard also extends its functionality to Wear OS, bringing the speed and reliability of the Google Keyboard to your watch. Features like Glide Typing, Voice Typing, and Emoji Typing are all available on your wrist. Supported languages on Wear OS include 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 effortlessly.
- Gesture Delete: Slide left from the delete key to quickly delete multiple words.
- Number Row: Make the number row always available by enabling it in Settings → Preferences → Number Row.
- Symbols Hints: Show quick hints on your keys to access symbols with a long press, enabled in Settings → Preferences → Long press for symbols.
- One Handed Mode: On large screen phones, pin the keyboard to the left or right of the screen for easier one-handed typing.
- Themes: Choose your own theme, with or without key borders, to personalize your keyboard.
