7 Keyboards For Your iPhone That Make Texting So Much More Entertaining
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We text and send emoji every day that it's almost second nature. While most of us love the emoji keyboard, it may be time to finally check out other cool features. There are new apps like Gboard, which allows users to turn their keyboard into a Google search engine, while fun stickers from Bitmoji let users customize their own icons after themselves. This is like next-level emoji-ing. Ahead, we rounded up seven fun keyboard features you can download for free to your phones. Pro tip: we don't recommend downloading all seven of these at once . . . finding your regular built-in keyboard will be a tad difficult.
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Bitmoji
For a personalized take on emoji, Bitmoji allows you to create an avatar of yourself and customize the way you want her to look. You can choose the avatar's outfits, hairstyles, and even eye color. There are hundreds of expressions you can choose from, and to send them is simple. You press on the image you want and hit copy and then paste into your message bar to send!
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GIF Keyboard
What you can't express with emoji, you can with GIFs. The built-in GIF keyboard allows you to seamlessly search for GIFs and send to friends and family members without having to go on Safari to find and copy one. Next time you can't think of a good comeback or the right way to express your feelings, just GIF it.
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Gboard
Google's keyboard app, Gboard, is pretty much everything you'd expect and more. The keyboard plays host to a variety of functions letting you search for GIFs and swipe to text and, of course, has a Google search built in. You can look up the weather, videos and images, and restaurants and easily send the GPS location for said spot to your friends. Gone are the days when you have to go on your Safari app to get all this information; it's now all on your keyboard.
Available for iOS
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Emojiyo
Obsessed with emoji? Emojiyo takes things to the next level by allowing you to send emoji phrases. This is perfect for when you don't want to use words in your messages. Although it might be hard for some of your friends to decode, those who know you best will have no problem guessing what you mean. Users can also customize their keyboard with themes like bubblegum and cantaloupe.
Available for iOS
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Swiftkey
The unique feature about Swiftkey is that it learns your writing style, which helps predict your next words with scary accuracy. The keyboard is a faster, cleaner version of your built-in one and comes with its own set of 800 emoji. Also, you can customize the keyboard to any color combinations you want.
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Stickzilla
Sometimes you just need to take a break from sending emoji and send stickers instead. Stickzilla offers thousands of adorable animal stickers with different expressions. There's even a "cranky cat," which is basically Grumpy cat's twin. Like Bitmoji, all you need to do is copy the character you want and then hit paste into the message space to send.
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Keymoji
The Keymoji keyboard lets you directly translate text into emoji. As you type, the app will figure out what you want to say and translate it into icons to convey your message. One cool aspect of this keyboard is users can upload their own emoji translations for any phrase at all and it will be added to a global database. This means other users can then use your phrase on their own phones.
Available for iOS