Although for years, Android phones have had the option of choosing between several keyboards to type more quickly, correctly and easily, the truth that iPhone owners could only envy and continue to be frustrated with their conventional keyboard, which many times rather than helping, towards the slower and cumbersome writing process. However, that has changed. The best keyboards for iPhone have come to the market to make your life easier and here we present them to you.
Our favorite iPhone keyboards
Typewise keyboard (free)
Typewise differs from other keyboard applications by its unique version of its shape. The app maintains the QWERTY layout but changes the traditional rectangle-shaped keys to hex keys, as Typewise claims that that allows you to have more surface area so you can type more precisely.
While there is a slight learning curve, Typewise includes a built-in game for practicing writing. With swipe gestures, dark mode support, and autocorrect modification, this is a great alternative for those who are tired of the conventional iOS keyboard.
Grammarly (free)
The main feature offered by the Grammarly keyboard app for iOS is a sophisticated grammar checker, which goes beyond the usual spell checker, to give you tips on punctuation, contextual spelling, and highlighting misspelled words.
It can also help you develop your vocabulary and offer synonyms, making it an ideal app for students or business people. Grammarly also has emojis, a smart autocorrect feature, and lets you create your own dictionary.
Phraseboard Keyboard (free)
Phraseboard aims to avoid the painful work of typing the same answers over and over again, as it allows you to save the most typical ones, so when you need to use them, just select them and add to your conversation quickly. You can create your most used custom phrases and order them by categories. You can even access the Fraseboard widget to create new phrases, no matter what you’re doing on your iPhone. Don’t worry about the need to reinstall this keyboard because all your phrases are synchronized with iCloud.
Gboard (Free)
Gboard is a Google keyboard for your iPhone. The keyboard is simple, since it includes everything you want in a single application. Whether you’re sending GIFs, emojis, Googling for information, submitting addresses, or something else, Gboard has it all covered. No more app switching – just search and send, right from your keyboard. With Gboard, you can search and submit anything from Google, including information on nearby restaurants, videos, images, weather forecasts, news, sports scores, and more. The app also adds Glide Typing, which allows you to write messages faster and more accurately.
SwiftKey (Free)
SwiftKey Keyboard for iOS is a smart keyboard that learns from you, replacing the iPhone’s built-in keyboard with one that better suits your typing. SwiftKey is loaded with tons of features that make typing even easier, including multilingual typing, support for over 800 emojis, and quick key presses with its SwiftKey Flow. With this application, users can write less, more accurately and in their language. SwiftKey offers support for more than 90 languages, including four versions of English, two types of Portuguese, Italian, German, four types of French, and three of Spanish. The app also allows users to customize their color-themed message apps.
Fleksy (Free)
Fleksy offers users a fun and interactive way of writing in their own way and in their own style. Flesky lets you customize your keyboard with powerful extensions and over 50 colorful themes. Some of the themes cost $ 1, but many are free. More than 800 emojis come with the app, which also has its own built-in GIF search engine. The keyboard comes with 42 languages, including Spanish, English, French, Russian, Arabic, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Hebrew, Dutch, and more. It also learns about your writing habits as you use it, allowing it to offer you more accurate predictions, which help you not only save time, but also reduce typos.
Go Keyboard (Free)
Go Keyboard gives you the prediction of the next word that you will use, write, have emojis and stickers . This keyboard is highly customizable with themes, backgrounds, and even letter fonts and tones. What makes Go Keyboard stand out from the rest is the impressive number of languages it can be used in. The free version supports more than 40 languages, and there is even a (paid) version that reaches 60. If you are in a country where you need a keyboard in something other than English or Spanish, especially if you need to type In hard-to-find foreign languages (like Thai, Urdu, or Lithuanian), it’s the keyboard to try.
Color Keyboard Maker
The king of keyboard customization is Color Keyboard Maker. Sure, it gives you emojis, autocorrect and even allows you to touch and hold the space bar to be able to move the cursor, which is something that can be done on the iOS keyboard with 3D Touch, but what really sets it apart is the option to change whatever you want about the appearance of the keyboard. You can change the background of it with solid colors, gradients, textures, and even your own images. You can also customize the buttons, changing their colors, their borders, adding shadows, customizing the fonts, and even changing the sounds. So if customization is what you really love, you can bet Color Keyboard Maker takes things to the next level.
Bitmoji (free)
Bitmoji is the perfect keyboard app for iOS users who prefer to send representations of themselves rather than just texts. This app allows you to create and send your own emojis directly from your keyboard. You can use it on Snapchat, iMessage or any of your favorite chat apps.
Plus, you can easily create an expressive avatar and then choose from a library of moods and stickers, both of which use your avatar. Likewise, if you are one of the millions of people with a Bitstrips avatar, you can simply download the application, log in with your Facebook account and have instant access to your avatar and personal collection.
Gif keyboard
Not sure how to express yourself? Say it with a GIF. The Riffsy keyboard is special for GIFs, as it allows you to search for millions of animations, some with music. GIFs are separated into categories for those who don’t have one in mind. Customize your keyboard with the GIFs you love the most and create collections from your favorites. The application works with your favorite messages and social networks, including iMessage, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook. Just tap and hold a GIF for options to share it or save it to the camera roll.