4.0
207K reviews
10M+
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Content rating
Rated for 3+
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About this app

Add some zest to your messaging experience with a smart and slick auto-correct feature, smooth swiping, a dedicated translator, and voice commands that support emoticons, GIFs, and stickers. Chat away like never before.


Your security and anonymity is our top priority

All input data is completely anonymized and won't be collected without your permission. The keyboard collects your input so it can learn and adapt to your personal style (don't worry, you can toggle this feature on or off in settings). None of your passwords, contacts, credit card information or other sensitive data is being collected.

Reads, writes, and speaks like a native

The keyboard uses proprietary machine learning algorithms developed by Yandex in order to make appropriate suggestions as you type. Advanced predictive capabilities even let you receive suggestions for words you haven't typed yet. You can also suggest your own words and let the keyboard adapt to the way you talk, or just forgo the feature altogether.

An interpreter in your pocket

The keyboard knows 70 languages and can easily translate phrases between multiple language pairs, including English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chuvash, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Haitian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Mari, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Turkish, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yakut, and Zulu. You can use the keyboard to effortlessly talk to people who don't speak your native tongue, without worrying about grammar rules.

Make talking more fun

Spice up your conversations with animated GIFs (built-in search included), emojis, and stickers, and you can even get emoji suggestions as you type along. The keyboard also supports kaomojis, which are fun emoticons constructed with Japanese characters, such as this angry guy flipping a table ( ╯°□°)╯┻━━┻ or a cute little bear ヽ( ̄(エ) ̄)ノ.

Enjoy tools for every occasion and a host of useful options

You can change up the keyboard's design: make it vibrant and colorful or go for something darker and sleeker looking. Don't waste your time on toggling and swiping: add numbers and other extra characters to your main keyboard layout for instant access. If you need to turn to the Internet for help, a built-in Yandex search is always right at your fingertips.

Got any questions? Want to speak your mind?

Consult this FAQ: https://yandex.ru/support/keyboard-android.

Got any (warranted) praise or criticism? Contact the developers at keyboard@support.yandex.ru. Please make sure to mention that you're using the Android version right in the subject field.
Updated on
Aug 19, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, App activity and 2 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.9
202K reviews
Frances Pope
April 2, 2025
Swipe typer here. So far seems better than Gboard for word suggestions. But it's got the same issue that every keyboard except Swype has. When you swipe the word it gives suggestions related to the shape you made, but if you move on from the word and then return the suggestions are given as if you had tap typed. Also if it suggests an acronym, when you go back to correct the word you get capitalised suggestions. Luckily it's easy to highlight a word and use shift to change case.
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Direct Cursus Computer Systems Trading LLC
August 13, 2025
Thank you for sharing your experience and feedback with us. User convenience is our top priority, and we are constantly working to make the Yandex Keyboard even better. We’ll keep your suggestions in mind and see what we can implement in the next updates.
Pavithra Sabu
February 14, 2022
Yandex by far is the best keyboard i’ve come across. its got a really smooth interface and the auto correct seems to be more better here compared to gboard. it's also more user-friendly. its really fast and often keeps up to my writing which i really enjoy. also the translation feature is helpful. so is the clipboard. ( thank you for having the option to be able to see stuff from ages ago... its helps me sometimes ^^ ) i think the only thing i’d like is more kaomoji selection. must have!
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Direct Cursus Computer Systems Trading LLC
September 7, 2022
Wow, thank you for your detailed review and for appreciating our work! Reviews like yours make our team happy. We’re always open to new ideas on how to improve Yandex Keyboard and will certainly take your suggestion into consideration. We hope that you continue to enjoy using Yandex Keyboard and the other services we have to offer!
Sameer Ahmed
July 31, 2025
The keyboard looks beautiful. It also conforms well to the "color palette" of Samsung. Moreover, it supports symbols well. For example, this Arabic sign ٱ is not present on another keyboard. Yandex has it. It would be perfect for me if it supported Urdu. Kindly add support for it. I have to switch to another keyboard for it. I hope it is added soon.
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Direct Cursus Computer Systems Trading LLC
July 31, 2025
Thank you for your interest in our app! We will try to add the Urdu language in one of the future updates.

What’s new

🚀 Launching Neural Network Functions! Now with YandexGPT: your personal text assistant! It will help correct errors, improve text, and even add emojis. Your messages will become even cooler!

🎨 AI-Generated Backgrounds! Introducing YandexART: create a unique keyboard background to suit your taste. Feel like an artist!

🔧 Various other improvements and bug fixes. We're here to make your communication more convenient and enjoyable!

Update now and enjoy the new features! 💫