Gboard

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “Gboard has been messing with the emoji search recently. It is worse.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-25

• “GBoard supports multi-word word deletion if you swipe back originating from the backspace key. You get some haptic feedback, and can scrub to adjust the selected boundary.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-24

• “Gboard has one nice feature though in that I have multiple languages enabled so I get correct predictive completion in non-English languages”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-24

• “Clearflow allows me to swipe much more accurately than stock gboard”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-24

• “Correction seems so mutton handed - I don't understand why, when I position the cursor for a correction it doesn't stem/postfix the word to offer options. In fact (with Gboard) the suggestions don't change with cursor position.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-24

• “gBoard is that it sometimes just makes really unhinged suggestions”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-24

• “enough for me to get rid of GBoard for good, and not consider reinstalling it”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-24

• “I also had to switch back to GBoard on GrapheneOS since I was spending more time fixing typos than actually typing with FUTO”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-24

• “With gboard I can swipe type al 3 languages I speak without having to constantly switch”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-24

• “Voice dictation is so much better than GBoard, which I've been using until now.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-23

• “FUTO and GBoard has the feature you're describing and I use it all the time”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-16

• “GBoard's dictionaries for Czech and Polish are still missing many usual declensions”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-07

• “on most keyboards the swipe functionality is much worse than GBoard”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-26

• “Gboard as the default GrapheneOS keyboard is a bit uncomfortable”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-03

• “I am typing an entire word with one "twipe" on GBoard. Each word.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-02-23

• “I can touch-type with flow typing in GBoard at this point. That's to say, I'm writing this comment on my Android phone without looking at the keyboard. QWERTY is in my muscle memory in such a way that words have become writable as single stroke characters.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-02-23

• “Gboard hasn't been updated in 4 years and as a result the UI doesn't always display properly”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-02-14

• “the first thing I did was install gboard. Iphone's native keyboard has always been less accurate.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-02-13

• “gboard does that on android so much that I wound up installing and using heliboard”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-02-13

• “I find the default keyboard (GBoard) atrocious for languages other than English.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-11

• “GBoard for me. Can't stand the Apple iOS keyboard for some reason.”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2025-12-11

• “Not a surprise that Gboard does not support swipe for numbers.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-10-23

• “in Gboard you can install multiple languages and write without having to switch and it will provide autosuggestions and spelling support based on the language you're typing without having to manually change the language”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-09-19

• “Gboard is crippled on iOS — why can't we just have a damn comma on the main screen?! And why can't I just get my keyboard to be at the very bottom of my screen. It's 2025 and we have gone so far backward.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-09-11

• “I was missing so many features of Gboard. I absolutely could not consider an iPhone or any other replacement phone for that matter, if it does not support Gboard.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-09-11