Google Handwriting Input is a stand-alone keyboard which allows you to handwrite text on your phone or tablet in 100 languages. It supports printed and cursive writing, with or without a stylus. Google Handwriting Input also supports more than a thousand emojis, so you can express yourself in any Android app.
Note: As of mid 2018, Gboard - the Google Keyboard allows for both handwriting and keyboard input. Google Handwriting Input is in maintenance mode, and new languages and improved recognizers will be deployed only to Gboard, so we encourage you to visit https://support.google.com/gboard/answer/9108773 to give it a try and let us know if you encounter any problems.
Key features: • A useful complement to touchscreen typing or voice input • A fun way to enter emojis by drawing • Useful for languages that can be challenging to type on a standard keyboard • Works across your Android phones and tablets running Android 4.0.3 and up • If you claim your handwriting is terrible, try it out and see if it can convince you otherwise
Latest updates
What's new in version 1.9.3
• Adds recognition support for Amharic, Armenian, Georgian and Tigrinya. • Accuracy improvements for several languages. • Android P compatibility. • Various bug fixes.
How to install Google Handwriting Input APK on Android phone or tablet?
Download Google Handwriting Input APK file from ApkClean, then follow these steps:
Update Phone Settings
Go to your phone Settings page
Tap Security or Applications (varies with device)
Check the Unknown Sources box
Confirm with OK
Go to Downloads
Open Downloads on your device by going to My Files or Files
Tap the APK file you downloaded (com.google.android.apps.handwriting.ime-v1.9.3-ApkClean.apk)
Tap Install when prompted, the APK file you downloaded will be installed on your device.
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3 ★1.The writing region is roughly 1/3 of the screen size at the bottom. For languages which are not alphabet based such size feels a bit restricted to me. It would be much more convenient if writing region can be set to a full screen, half transparent window. 2. The default "gesture" for backspace is slide from right to left horizontally, which happens to be a valid stroke in Chinese characters, this becomes quite annoying after I finish writing a sentence only find half of the chars are deleted.
4 ★It's accurate. I wish that it could also work as handwritten optical character reader on an image to extract text.
5 ★Very usefull app I hope that every person in the world loves it. Every person in different corners of the world can type their respective languages very efficiently . I love this app.🤩
2 ★The keyboard estimates what it thinks you are writing and moves on quickly between strokes leaving you with two partially completed characters instead of the one you are trying to write. Yes, it offers you the option to return to your previous character. However, you then have to return over and over for many characters or it simply moves on again and once again you have two partially completed characters. It may have additional settings somewhere but the app is too frustrating to find them.
1 ★This app no longer works on Android. I often use the Japanese handwriting input but now when I select it no keyboard comes up and the app crashes, prompting me to close it. But then the system doesn't change it back to another keyboard so you just get constant crash reports. I had to uninstall it to be able to type again. Tried uninstalling + reinstalling a few times but it's completely broken. Unfortunate.
3 ★Like many speech to text apps, this has a small error in recognising handwriting to change to text. It should be possible to determine the word from handwriting.
5 ★5 stars, now that it's working again! Thank you!! In my opinion, and based on recent experience, this is still the best handwriting input app. No stars, pending a fix. Loved this app - until the android update. As others have mentioned, it's now totally broken. Not what I expect from Google. Please fix asap!
3 ★I was learning Japanese at a time. I wanted a way to write it. But this keyboard dosen't read the charecters well. I end up not bring able to type. It's annoying with most Asian languages but everything else is good I guess. I wouldn't recommend this to a friend who is learning an Asian language (not including Korean), but a friend who wants to type out English or some other language eith mostly English letters.
5 ★I am using this app mainly to write Malayalam. So far this is the best app I ever used to do that. the only problem is that it has limitations in differentiating between the ''vwa' sound and 'vya' sound. For example, 'ക്വ' (Kwa) and 'ക്യ' (kya) look similar in Malayalam and when you use handwriting input most of the time, when I use 'ക്വ' it identifies it as 'ക്യ' even if I put a 90 degree bend on that symbol which looks like a right corner bracket, it identifies only after three or four attempts. A slight improvement may be needed.
2 ★A new problem with the app when we change to malayalam my Samsung m30's key board dis appears. To sort I have to restart the phone.
3 ★In my phone after the update to android 10 the option to hide icon from home screen is not working. Icon stands in home screen and when I touch the icon it goes to app info (app info means options to do stuffs like uninstall or force stop)
1 ★The app is not at all good because it keeps on crashing. My phone is password protected and just because I switched to this keyboard, I was locked out of my phone as there was no keyboard where I could enter my password. Even after knowing my password, I could not unlock my mobile. This wasted a lot, lot and lot of my time and I could finally solve the problem by rebooting and switching to safe mode. I then immediately uninstalled this app after which my mobile started working perfectly fine.