Top 10 Best Keyboard Apps For Android (Free) 2021

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Below are the 10 best keyboard apps for 2017 that you can use on your Android devices for free. I have included the download link in the list title.

1 Google Gboard

 Google is the best in creating new stuff, like that of the release of the new google chrome that has insane features. They own Android and now they also have a keyboard app. In this app, you can Google search, post emoji, and GIF search, it also has gesture typing, autocorrect, one-handed mode, weird prediction, etc. All these features are free.

Gboard has everything you love about Google Keyboard—speed and reliability, Glide Typing, voice typing, and more—plus Google Search built-in. No more app switching; just search and share, right from your keyboard.

Gboard also has emoji search to help you find emoji faster, plus GIF search, and multilingual typing to let you switch languages on the fly.

Glide Typing — Type faster by sliding your finger from letter to letter

Voice typing — Easily dictate text on the go

Search and share anything from Google: — Press on G to search and share:

• Nearby stores and restaurants

• Weather forecasts

• News articles

• Sports scores

• And anything else you’d search on Google

Emoji Search — Find that emoji, faster

GIFs — Search and share GIFs for the perfect reaction. (Available in apps that have implemented image keyboard support)

Multilingual typing — No more switching between languages manually. Gboard will autocorrect and suggest from any of your enabled languages, without the need to tap on the globe key.

Google Translate — Translate as you type in the keyboard

Pro tips:

• Press and hold Enter to choose from hundreds of emoji in any app (Android 4.4+).
•  Learns as you type: No need to manually add words to a personal dictionary. Type a word once and you can gesture type it or find it in suggestions next time. Long press a suggestion to remove it from your “learned words” or the keyboard dictionary.
• Sync your learned words across devices to improve suggestions (enable in Gboard Settings→ Dictionary → Sync learned words).
•  Gesture cursor control: Slide your finger across the space bar to move the cursor.
•  Gesture delete: Slide left the delete key to quickly delete multiple words.
•  Make the number row available all the time (enable in Settings → Preferences → Number Row)
•  Symbols hints: Show quick hints on your keys to access symbols with a long press (enable in Gboard Settings → Preferences → Long press for symbols).
• One-handed mode: On large screen phones, pin keyboard to the left or the right of the screen by long pressing on entering and selecting the thumb icon.
•  Fast symbols: Gesture from the “?123” key to temporarily switch to the symbols keyboard and insert a symbol.
•  Fast capitalization: Gesture from the SHIFT key to a character to capitalize it.
• Themes: Choose a theme with or without key borders to suit your style.

2 SwiftKey


Upgrade your phone’s keyboard to SwiftKey Keyboard for free - and get more done without fussing over typos. Join over 250 million people worldwide who use SwiftKey Keyboard for hassle-free typing.

SwiftKey Keyboard uses Artificial Intelligence to automatically learn your writing style, including the emoji you love to use (if you use emoji), the words that matter to you and how you like to type. That means autocorrect and predictive text that actually works because it adapts to you.

SwiftKey Keyboard caters for all typing tastes - all colors, designs, and themes. Support for 150+ languages. Tapping or swipe-to-type. Tons of emoji (smileys, emoticons). No emoji. Or emoji keyboard predictions learned from how you’ve used emoji before.

•  Kills your typos
•  Type faster with A.I.-powered predictions
•  Simply swipe-to-type with SwiftKey Flow
•  Autocorrect that actually works
•  Always learning your slang, nicknames, and phrases
•  80+ colors, designs, and themes
•  Emoji keyboard - learns and predicts your favorite emoticons
•  Bilingual autocorrect across 150+ languages
•  Teach the autocorrect your quirks from your online accounts

3 Swiftmoji

swift moji

Swiftmoji emoji keyboard helps you reach your true emoji potential. Get perfect emoji predictions based on what you’ve just typed:

- Get to your emoji fast with the unique Emoji Prediction Row

- Emoji predictions morph to match what you’re typing

How Swiftmoji - emoji keyboard will change your (emoji) life:

- Find the emoji you want FAST - no more slow searching!

- Be CREATIVE & use emoji you forgot existed

- No more switching to emoji, let them come to you!

- Get emoji INSPIRATION right when you need it

- Always have the latest emoji available

4 Chrooma

• Chrooma Keyboard is a lightweight, fast keyboard that adapts its color to the app you are using.
• According to AndroidAuthority.com Chrooma Keyboard is "the best Android app released in all of 2016"
• Chrooma Keyboard is powered by a smart artificial intelligence that provides you a better contextual prediction.
• Chrooma has a new exclusive neural action row that helps you with emojis, numbers, and punctuation suggestions!
• And if emojis are not enough for you, with Chrooma Keyboard you can search and send all the GIFs you want!
• Chrooma Keyboard always fits your style thanks to its high level of personalization (themes, font styles, emoji styles, keyboard size ...)
• But Chrooma Keyboard is not just a beautiful keyboard it's also a smart productivity tool.
• These are just some of the coolest features you will find in Chrooma Keyboard :
• GIF search
• With Chrooma Keyboard you have a dedicated GIF tab to search and send all the GIFs you want! Chrooma's GIF is supported by almost every app.

Emojis Support

1. Our keyboard supports automatic emojis suggestions and helps you by providing you your most used emojis.
2. Chrooma is always updated to support the latest emojis available.
3. Colored Navbar
4. Chrooma Keyboard automatically changes the color of your navbar according to the app you are using
5. Gestures Integrated
6. A lot of gestures, fast delete, delete all, move the cursor, fast selection, and Google Now™ integration!
7. Multilanguage typing
8. With Chrooma Keyboard you can write in multiple languages simultaneously without having to switch the keyboard every time.

• One Hand Mode and Split Layout
• Activate the one-hand mode to type faster with just one thumb!
• Do you have a large screen? The split layout will help you typing faster!
• Swipe/Glide typing
• Tired of tapping? You can write everything just by swiping your thumb over the keyboard.
• Night Mode
• Chrooma Keyboard can change automatically the color tone when low light is detected.
• You can also set a timer and program the night mode.

5 Minuum



The smarter, smaller keyboard lets you do more with your screen space. It’s the little keyboard for big fingers!

*** One of the “12 best Android apps of 2014” - Karissa Bell, Mashable ***


Minuum is best known for:

 SLOPPY TYPING — Type surprisingly fast and delightfully sloppy
 SMART EMOJI — Always have the right emoticon right at your fingertips
 SHAPESHIFTING — Save screen space, enable one-handed typing or reposition your keyboard entirely
Spend 15 seconds with the introductory tutorial and you'll be able to start typing with Minuum—instantly. The more you type, the better Minuum gets.

• BONUS PANELS

Minuum is always finding ways for you to enjoy your screen space through brand new bonus panels:

• CURSOR CONTROL — Tweak your texts, emails, and posts with ease
•  CLIPBOARD TOOLS — Quickly cut, copy and paste
•  SEARCH & SHARE — Instantly access thesaurus, dictionary, search, and share
•  EMOJI—Express yourself better with immediate access to all 856 emoticons
•  TYPING SPEED — Monitor your typing speed

DISCOVER MORE

The Minuum keyboard for touchscreens is the first step toward a "type anywhere" future. Soon Minuum will let you type in ways you never imagined. For more information: http://www.minuum.com

FEATURES AT A GLANCE

• FAST SLOPPY TYPING

Type fast without worrying about precision, thanks to ridiculously smart auto-correction that learns as you type.

• MORE SCREEN SPACE

Recover more than half of the touchscreen space you lose when using traditional virtual keyboards.

• HELP FOR THE LARGE-FINGERED

Use key magnification for precise letter, number, and punctuation entry—very useful if you have large fingers.

• DIFFERENT ALPHABET ARRANGEMENTS

Choose from alternate keyboard layouts—such as “QWERTZ,” “AZERTY,” “A-Z.”

• EXPANSION TO FULL-SIZED KEYBOARD

Dragon the candidate's bar to quickly switch between mini and full-size modes (useful for URLs and passwords).

• SMART WORD PREDICTION

Speed up your typing via suggestions from a predictive engine that learns from your word list, word combos, and language use patterns.

• SMART EMOJI

Swipe the word predictions left to find your Smart Emoji suggestions. Learn more about "the quest for the perfect emoji" here: http://goo.gl/sxQT9w

• VOCABULARY CONTROL

Minuum learns from your vocabulary and lets you delete words from your dictionary though a pop-up display.

• RAPID GESTURE SHORTCUTS

Slide your fingers to the corners for quick, convenient access to all your features via pop-up keys.

• VOICE TYPING

Enter text hands-free via Google Voice Typing for voice-to-text typing when performing other activities.

• REAL MULTITASKING

If you’ve got the split-screen capability, multitask more effectively as a result of extra screen space.

6 Swype Keyboard

Swype is now even more customizable with brand new keyboard themes and hundreds of Emoji.


SWYPE – YOUR KEYBOARD FOR LIFE:

Swype is all about YOU. Whether you’re a fast tapper, exact typer or love to Swype, get ready for a better, faster keyboard experience that gets smarter the more you use it. Swype pays attention to the way you input text and creates a personal language model that follows you from device to device. Note: For an Ads free version, please download "Swype Keyboard."

• Swype supports Hindi, English, Hinglish and more Indian languages!

SWYPE KEYBOARD FEATURES:

HINDI TRANSLITERATION – Swype now supports Hindi input using an English Keyboard.

THEMES: Many themes are available in the Swype Store!

Press and hold the Swype Key to access the Swype Store and customize your keyboard.

Swype’s NEW Emoji Keyboard allows you to quickly browse through hundreds of Emojis and express your emotions visually. Press and hold the Enter key to quickly access the new Emoji Keyboard.

MORE CUSTOMIZATION OPTIONS – Swype lets you customize your keyboard including long-press delay, vibration duration, keyboard height, and mini left/right keyboards in landscape mode.

PERSONAL DICTIONARY BACKUP & SYNC– Swype enables you to backup your personal dictionary to the cloud and synchronize it with any Android device with Swype on it – never lose the words that you add to your personal dictionary again! (Opt-in feature)

SWYPE LIVING LANGUAGE & HOTWORDS keeps you always up to date with a real-time, crowd-sourced, and news-derived language model that gives you immediate access to our continuously updated language dictionary. Imagine having instant access to the hottest words and phrases that people are using at that moment. (Opt-in feature)

NEXT WORD PREDICTION – So intelligent, it's like Swype can read your mind! The most powerful language models on the market train your device to learn your unique vocabulary and predict your words based on previous usage, Swype can predict commonly used words and phrases.

LANGUAGE DOWNLOADS – Swype supports more than 100 downloadable languages and dialects.

BILINGUAL SUPPORT – Swype lets you enter words from two languages at once! Words suggested by Swype will automatically adjust to your bilingual language preferences.

TABLET KEYBOARDS – Swype features three unique tablet keyboard designs: a full-screen keyboard, a small and moveable keyboard, and a split-screen keyboard.

DRAGON DICTATION – Swype comes with best-in-class voice recognition so you can go hands-free and dictate text quickly with a simple press of the voice key on the Swype keyboard.

GESTURES – Use Swype gestures for quick everyday tasks such as:

•  Select All (Swype key to ‘A’)
•  Cut (Swype key to ‘X’)
•  Copy (Swype key to ‘C’)
•  Paste (Swype key to ‘V’)

ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORT – Swype supports Android’s “Talkback” and “Explore by Touch” accessibility features. When accessibility features are enabled the user’s entered text will be spoken back.

7 Fleksy



Fleksy is the most fun, customizable way to type, and officially the fastest keyboard in the world. Find and send GIFs & Stickers, and customize your keyboard with powerful extensions & colorful themes.

Use Extensions like GIFs, Hotkeys, Number Row, Cursor Control, One-Handed Typing, Stickers, Rainbow Key Pops, and more.

• "This is much better than your standard input methods and predictive text engines." - TechCrunch 
•  Killer text prediction that works with even the sloppiest of writing - TIME MAGAZINE

POWERFUL EXTENSIONS AND CUSTOMIZATION

Use Fleksy Extensions to customize your keyboard with incredibly powerful features. Have more fun with the fastest keyboard & easiest way to access GIFs. Navigate apps right from your keyboard. Copy/paste, control your cursor, and more with Editor. Customize it with an easy-access Number Row, quick Keyboard Shortcuts, or a fun Rainbow Pop effect when you type. Fleksy gives you 3 slots FREE, so you can mix, match, or try all 7!

THE FASTEST, MOST ACCURATE KEYBOARD

Fleksy uses next-generation autocorrect so you can type accurately without even looking, and save time using intuitive gestures! Type faster and save more time for the things you love.

MORE NATURAL GESTURES

With just a swipe of your finger, easily add punctuation, space, delete words, and much more. Easy. Intuitive. Fast.


BEAUTIFUL DESIGN. 50+ COLORFUL THEMES. 3 CUSTOMIZABLE SIZES

Show your style with 51 free & purchasable colorful theme designs. Check out fan favorites like the Chameleon Theme that matches the color of the app you are in.

TYPING THAT’S ACTUALLY FUN!

Express yourself with GIFs, over 800 Emojis, 50 themes, Rainbow Key Pops. Then, earn fun Badges and rewards for using Fleksy! Who said typing had to be boring?

MULTILINGUAL TYPING

Seamlessly switch between languages while typing. Fleksy supports over 40 languages


8 Ginger Keyboard

Ginger Keyboard app is densely packed with features such as a variety of themes, emoji, gesture typing, solid autocorrect, shortcuts to helpful apps and it even asked you to search from Google. The striking feature of this app is that you can play games here. You will find games from the old times such as ‘Snake’ and modern games such as ‘2048’ here. It also adorns a spell checker whose functioning is slightly different from the auto-correct. It is free for a limited time period. After that, you need to purchase its monthly subscription to keep using it.


9 GO Keyboard

GO Keyboard - Google Play Best App of 2016 in 10 countries!

•  Best keyboard on Google Play.
•  200 million users worldwide and personalize their keyboards.

Key features

• It`s the Most Useful Helper-Is your typing really slow? Let GO Keyboard help you and make your typing fast and correct!
• It`s the Coolest Friend-Lacking fun for taping and want to be different? Just follow us with a personalized emoji keyboard and enjoy smiley emoji, sticker, font to key tone with your friends anytime!
• It`s a keyboard that understands you most-Bored with a plain android keyboard? There are 10000+ colorful themes, 100+ fonts and you can slide to input smoothly!

GO Keyboard supports 60+ languages and thousands of themes. The emoji, emoticons, and sticker on the keyboard are compatible across all popular apps.

Emoji, Emoticon :

Turn plain text into smiley emoji and emoticons! Communicate with emojis and emotions such as Emoji and emoticons speak 1000 times louder than words! Easy to find emoji and emoticons in the keyboard area.

New Sticker:

If you like interesting and cool pictures, we sincerely recommend you sticker which is popular among millions of users. What's more, our stickers are very convenient to get and you can easily have your favorite sticker!

FEATURES:

•  FREE emoji, emoticons, sticker, and other smiley faces 

It is free to use a pack of 800 emoticons, emojis, and stickers.

PERSONALIZED EXPERT

There are 10000+ colorful themes compatible with emoji keyboard and new themes are delivered weekly! You could also set keyboard background wallpaper.

 WORD CORRECTION

Smart enough to recognize mistyping, provide correction suggestions and make your typing easy.

 POPULAR FONTS

We offer you over 100 beautiful fonts including Toshiyana, Rayna, Elgtion, Basileia, and other popular font.

•  VARIOUS LAYOUTS, gesture typing, and support for tablet device 

• It provides various layouts such as QWERTY keyboard, QWERTZ, and AZERTY keyboard for pad tablet.

•  TYPE what you speak

Free you with voice input. The more you use it, the better it recognizes what you want and gives you accurate word suggestions.
10 AI.Type Keyboard


ai.type is the smartest, most personalized keyboard for smartphones and tablets. With over 40 million users worldwide, we transform the messaging experience.

 NEW!! Get FREE unlimited prediction-correction in 50+ languages.

The last version added support in customized animated message GIF using our new Guggy GIF Box.
Our app lets you type better and faster by learning your writing style, it allows you to customize and personalize your keyboard the way you like.


Feature-set highlights

• Design keyboard layout, change themes, colors, fonts, use more than 800 emojis and express yourself exactly the way you want to.
•  Thousands of free themes - Choose any of the free and attractive keyboard themes out of thousands of available themes as part of our Theme Market.
•  Design and share your own theme - Design personalized layout (background, colors, fonts…), Share theme with friends, and upload them to our app Theme Market where millions of other users can see, rate, and ⬇ download them.
•  Emoji Support - Enjoy our new Emoji scrollable layout helping you to easily navigate through 800 different emojis and more than 1000 graphical chars.
•  Auto suggested Emojis - Let us help and suggest the right  Emoji based on the words you use and the context 
•  Next word prediction, completion & auto-correction - Context-based next word prediction and auto-correction based on your own unique writing style. Auto prediction, available in more than 50 languages
•  Swipe - Write faster by swiping your finger from key to key.
•  Personalize - Select your keyboard's look & feel, functionality and create your own custom keys & shortcuts. Set ANY image as your background image
• Dynamically resize your keyboard size according to your needs.
•  Efficient top row. Use our top (5th) row to efficiently add numbers, punctuation, and emoji, from within the primary keyboard screen.
•  On-keyboard search  - to help you find text instantly.
•  Voice Narration - Dictates the words as you type them.
•  Privacy - Your privacy is our main concern. We will never share your data or learn from password fields. Text stays encrypted and private.

Try these apps and see the best that suits you. These are the best keyboard apps for 2021. If I missed any, don't forget to tell me in the comment box below.