Gboard offers a comprehensive suite of features that enhance your typing experience across devices. With its speed and reliability, you can enjoy the convenience of Glide Typing, allowing you to type faster by effortlessly sliding your finger from letter to letter. Voice Typing makes it easy to dictate text on the go, while Handwriting support lets you write in both cursive and printed letters.
Express yourself with a vast selection of popular emojis and GIFs, thanks to Emoji Search and GIF sharing capabilities. Gboard's Emoji Search feature helps you quickly find the perfect emoji, while the GIF functionality allows you to share the ideal reaction with friends and family.
Multilingual typing is a breeze with Gboard, as it automatically corrects and suggests from any of your enabled languages, eliminating the need to switch manually. The integrated Google Translate feature further enhances your communication by translating text as you type directly within the keyboard.
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 this link for a complete list of supported languages.
For Wear OS users, Gboard brings the same beloved features to your wrist, including Glide Typing, Voice Typing, and Emoji Typing. All Wear OS languages are supported, such as 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.
To maximize your Gboard experience, take advantage of these pro tips:
- Use gesture cursor control by sliding your finger across the space bar to move the cursor.
- Quickly delete multiple words with gesture delete by sliding left from the delete key.
- Make the number row always available by enabling it in Settings → Preferences → Number Row.
- Enable symbol hints to quickly access symbols with a long press in Settings → Preferences → Long press for symbols.
- On larger screen phones, use one-handed mode to pin the keyboard to the left or right side of the screen.
- Personalize your keyboard with themes, with or without key borders, to match your style.
Please note that Handwriting, Emoji Search, and GIFs are not supported on Android Go devices.
