Gboard is Google's polished, feature-packed keyboard, but its deep Google integration and data practices push privacy-focused users to explore alternatives.
Each app below addresses a specific gap in Gboard's offering. We picked them based on real user review patterns and feature differentiation.
SwiftKey by Microsoft offers highly personalized next-word prediction, multilingual support for up to five languages at once, and swipe typing.
Explore SwiftKey data →Fleksy's autocorrect engine is benchmarked as one of the fastest available, with full theme support and extensions for GIF, stickers, and more.
Explore Fleksy data →Typewise processes all predictions on-device without sending keystroke data to any server, offering a privacy-first keyboard experience.
Explore Typewise data →Grammarly Keyboard provides inline grammar, spelling, and style suggestions across all apps on iOS and Android.
Explore Grammarly Keyboard data →The latest SwiftKey versions integrate Bing AI directly in the keyboard, offering AI-powered composition and tone adjustment from any text field.
Explore Microsoft SwiftKey with Bing data →Samsung Keyboard offers swipe typing, emoji, GIF, stickers, translation, and voice input — pre-installed on Galaxy devices with no extra account required.
Explore Samsung Keyboard data →Gboard users exploring alternatives tend to land on SwiftKey for prediction quality or Typewise for privacy-first offline input.
Gboard processes most typing locally. Voice input and search queries are sent to Google servers. Google's privacy policy governs how this data is used.
Yes. Gboard is available on iOS, though Apple's system restrictions limit its capabilities (such as always-on access to microphone) compared to Android.
Yes. Gboard supports hundreds of languages and lets you switch between languages with a tap or automatically detects the language you're typing in.
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