GIF Keyboard Reviews

Works well as a primary choice for gifs on my iPhone. There one thing I wish you all would make happen? When typing out what you want to search for, there’s no way to spell check/auto correct to spell the word correctly.

So my fix is, is to just type out whatever word in the text box of the message, find the correct spelling and then use that to type correctly in to the search bar of Tenor. Also you can’t copy or paste that word from the message into the search bar of Tenor either.

That’s what I’ve found to work, there’s some steps involved where there shouldn’t be it’s just a waste of time..but oh well what can you do…..

I installed the Tenor app b/c I use it in desktop a lot. It was great at first—Easy to install and setup, easy to use in texts, etc. But now any app that allows any form of messaging has a giant banner that says something about enabling full access, instead of just access to my Messages app. According to Apple forums, there’s no way to get rid of the banner (and it’s super easy to accidentally click it and have to back out and go back to what you were doing due to all the real estate it takes up on the screen) unless you give those permissions. Tenor says it’s “not as scary as it sounds,” but when you’re someone who uses privacy apps like Signal, you don’t want to give 3rd parties ability to read all of your typing! So I deleted it. Gave it 3 stars b/c it’s very fun and functional, but not enough to be willing to be coerced into doing something I’m not comfortable with. I will definitely redownload if they rectify this in the future.

So I’ve used GIFKeyboard for a while and it did its purpose. It was a little slow to load some images at times, and it’s not organized very well, but the search feature got me what I needed. The problem is GIFKeyboard and I guess other keyboards require full access to your phone and see everything you type or even have previously typed if you re-install. This is a crazy security risk and just too much for my liking. The company tries to downplay the significance but this is a big deal. I can’t have a random developer seeing everything I type like credit card numbers. 3 stars at first because GIFKeyboard generally did what it needed to do despite this huge security risk, but dropped to 2 because GIFKeyboard brushes past this issue and doesn’t mention it at all when instructing you to download and allow full access. It would be better to address it head on. Shady

1) there’s 3 different instances of GIFKeyboard . The keyboard top bar select, the actual selectable keyboard, and GIFKeyboard itself
2) all 3 instances are missing features from one another. So if there’s something you want to do or settings you want to change, good luck finding which instance to use...
3) stickers will only show up in their own distinctive category if you use the top bar select version, However you can’t use your account version. If you use the keyboard itself you can’t really tell what a sticker is from just another gif. If you use GIFKeyboard itself you can only manage your library but cannot search for stickers at all.

GIFKeyboard does what is advertised but it seems any effort to streamline or improve is absent. So overall annoying most of the time but if there could be any feature I’d like to see added would be the ability to view only stickers.

This is my favorite Go-To keyboard for gifs when texting, and I can always find at least something close enough to what I’m saying. It’s easy to search through and use, and updates regularly.
The only thing that bugs me ALL THE TIME is that I can’t disable the “Trending” or “Suggested” searches. I don’t want them or need any of them, so I shouldn’t have to be forced to have it listed in my recent list, when I’m trying to get back to my previous conversation banter. It never goes away, and pushes out my recent searches, putting that crap list there, that doesn’t pertain to anything I want.
Do me a favor, give us an option to disable the trending suggestions list, so that our OWN recent search history can be provided accordingly.
Thanks 🙄

A great collection of gifs but I'd be willing to pay if I could save them on my phone for using in texts and what not. Their search is awesome. Trending I cool. They benefit greatly from the fact Apple doesn't support gifs but since they are covering up this weakness they should see it through. If I save something to a collection or use it recently save it to the device. I might not always have the best internet connection so waiting for all these gifs I've already saved to load is annoying. I know there is a saved section. It needs to be easier to use. As far as I can tell saving saved to camera roll where I have thousands of other pictures so if I'm looking for a gif from 5 months ago it's a whole thing.

It’s Free and Easy to use and quite useful when I am messaging my loved ones. Especially when I am in dire need of that right gif or motion sticker to express myself visually. The keyboard and it’s user interface are easy to use and it’s easily accessible directly from the message being created at the time. GIFKeyboard plays a pivotal role in daily messaging and social networking habits. My favorite feature used in GIFKeyboard is having the ability to generate a word search of the precise media your looking for, allowing you to organize and store content found into categorized folders and sub-folders for future use. Oh yeah best of all have I mentioned that GIFKeyboard is ENTIRELY FREE TO USE!

They’re great expressions to help explain or exaggerate exactly what your trying to say or convey in your messages! It give my texts emotional context or I can find the perfect one that says it all! I know you can also make and personalize the gifs but I don’t have the patience or time to look to try to figure it out but people even grandmas do it and are successful because I can see and use the GIFs they make. So It’s a good app… no complaints yet. I get lost scrolling through all the options to choose from and will even forget what I originally was looking for because I start saving them and creating categories of all my fav’s! Have fun folks!

First off I am an actual person doing an actual review. I didn’t get paid or receive anything for this (it would be cool though devs!) just kidding guys. But honestly, this is the best app for .gifs out there!! None of the others can touch GIFKeyboard! I’m into a lot of underground and lesser known media, and I’ve found a gif for it all. If you don’t believe me, I bet you don’t know who Old Gregg is, I do, and there’s over 20 gifs of him and lines from the skit. Guys, I’ll be downloading this on every phone I have as long as I possibly can. I love it. I have not one single negative thing to say!!! KEEP IT GOING DEVS!!!

So easy to use, a lot of variety , and you can creat “packs” to keep certain themed ones together!! So any occasion you’ll have a.mood lifter/laugh generator Togo to! I’m the quick. Draw McGraw of gifs now. I’m the comedic relief when our work group chat/dispatch get tangled up. I got a folder for me getting messages asking why I didn’t call back ORRRR why you didn’t show up? Got a folder for basic holidays birthday ones j4th ones thanksgiving Xmas all that. Even got a folder for when I helped my sister-IN-LAW when she got stuck half way under the bed or when my mother in law walks in while I’m taking a shower and drops a 2 pound McDondalds doodoo! Love ya

As a husband and a father, in our world of rapidly expanding social media with its scary pitfalls (some of which, I believe, purposely lure youth and children into inappropriate subject matter), I appreciate being able to quickly find and send appropriate images to my wife and family. There are some images which I do find unsuitable, and others that are clearly raunchy and disgusting, and I can ignore them. However, my children are often allowed to use my phone; I am concerned that your images/gifs may be too easily accessible by children: are there filters available to set on devices to which children have access?

Loads of creative and original gifs along with the standards people love. I do wish they’d go back to the old way of categorizing gifs so it’s easier to find the newer more original ones. Currently, the same tired ones you see all over the internet are prioritized and hat includes ones that are personalized for specific people (UGH, most of us can’t use those!!!). Also, FIX the save function!! I find unique gifs, save them using your folder function and when I go back later, the folder is empty. EMPTY!! Meaning I just wasted my time and even worse, I can’t find those super cool gifs now, because you’ve changed the search function.

I like the GiF’s very much. However it would be nice if they would sub-categorize further I didn’t put emoji separate show me the photos as well as any stickers, animated or not. Takes a lot of time to go through all of them to think the exact one you want. I would like to be able to cut and paste into something other than an actual message but somewhere in that messenger app itself. So that it is easier and closer at hand. Perhaps if it could detect a word in your text a GIF or two from your favorites would pop up and are you have to touch it a couple of times for it to go onto the message

I love this! I use it all of the time! It literally has everything. Even if the search comes up as “no results”, it still has a few different options that are close enough... it still gets the original point across. I also love how there is such a great variety! You can go all the way from sending a funny or sexy one to your boyfriend or girlfriend to sending a serious one to your boss! I used to use emojis like crazy! I mean to the point where the predictive keyboard always had an emoji on it. Now, I use this keyboard probably 5 times a day, minimum. I recommend GIFKeyboard if you like to laugh and have fun!

(2) of my friends recommended GIFKeyboard. (1) has an iPhone & the other a Samsung. They loved it.
I've been using this for about (6) weeks and have a pretty good idea of how it works now. It's great if you want a single GIF at a time but if there are (2) or more in same section you either have to save them to your favorites right then or go back & search thru the whole list again.

Also, maybe it's just me but when I add captions, but all the words don't always show up. I was told it use to word wrap & you had font/font color/font placement options. I haven't seen any of that. Those would be really nice to have.

It would be great to be able to enlarge or shrink the GIF. Or even to create New GIF's within GIFKeyboard itself versus having to download a GIF Creator App in addition to this one.

Creators/Programmers of GIFKeyboard will hopefully begin to make some adjustments for the better of it's user experience. Plus, please make it IOS 11 compatible or you might end up losing a lot of us because of "bugs"! I would definitely upgrade my Star Rating if even just a couple of changes for the better are made.

I didn’t have a lot of memory on my phone so I deleted GIFKeyboard sadly lost all my fave gifs but it was taking up like 2gb...then I was able to redownload it and it’s asking for full access to be able to use it...that means whenever you type ANYTHING anywhere while on your phone...they are able to access that information. And if you disable it and turn it back on it can access anything you typed while it was disabled. This is a free app with no add-on purchases, why do you need access to everything I type including debit/credit card info, addresses, texts, other sensitive info, etc? It’s unnecessary and so I deleted it AGAIN. Sad bc I love GIFKeyboard, it has the best gifs but I don’t want my card info being accessible to an app in some weird sneaky way.

Let’s just say I have not yet deleted GIFKeyboard because I found it pretty useful, not to mention when you sent it it’s someone they don’t expect it and it cracks them up because it’s a great expression of how we actually feel without trying to explain it. You just known. Lol. It cracks me up. Because that’s exactly how be feeling. Into read about how they are working together with Google while improving their product they’re brand. This is great for advanced technology and I look forward to seeing other products and services from Tenor. Great job cause I know this isn’t even the beginning yet. Watch what I say Tenor will be a major household name. L. Chatman

I absolutely love GIFKeyboard! There is such a wide variety of gifs for almost anything you can think of! The only downfall so far is when trying to post a gif in a facebook comment box, it posts as a photo and not a gif! 😩 It will post in a status and a direct message, but not in a comment. I could be doing something wrong, but as far as I can tell, it just doesn't work! But, that isn’t a deal breaker for me though! I can use some of the less awesome ones provided by facebook itself! Such a well pit together app guys! Keep on keeping on!👊

***EDIT*** APPARENTLY you cannot put a gif in an app review? But that isn’t your fault. I assume that is just one of Apple’s many limitations 👎

GIFKeyboard is awesome saucesome. Yes, you do have to give access to your keyboard and what not. If you're honestly worried about Riffsy spying on you and stealing your numbers/info, then you may as well prepare for the zombie apocalypse because that's what kind of a moron you are. I doubt the developers of GIFKeyboard had sinister motives in mind rather than letting people enjoy gifs in their texts. Anyways, get it and love using it, I know I do! It works incredibly smooth for what it does.

Update: this has been working great for 6 years, why is it now having a slew of issues?

I love the ease of searching, saving, and sending gifs using this keyboard. Search terms are provided as you type, so you can click when the intended word or phrase comes up. I’ve not had an issue finding the gif I want to use. The only issue I’ve had is that sometimes when I post a gif by copying it, it is a still photo and doesn’t move. I can get around that by saving it to my phone as a video, but that’s only AFTER I post the gif and then delete it because it doesn’t move. Kind of annoying; not the end of the world

Very easy to use and I would recommend.

Third Party Keyboards provide an alternative way to input keyboard data. These keyboards can access all of the data you type, including bank account and credit card numbers, street addresses, as well as other personal and sensitive information. These keyboards may also access nearby text or data, which is useful for improving autocorrect functionality.

If you enable Full Access, developers are permitted to access, collect and transmit the data you type. In addition, if the third party application containing the keyboard has your permission to access location, photos, or other personal data, the keyboard can also collect and transmit that information to the keyboard developer’s servers. If you disable Full Access for a third party keyboard, and then re-enable it, the keyboard’s developer may be able to access, collect and transmit what was typed while the network access was disabled.

If you do not enable Full Access, developers are not permitted to collect and transmit the data you type. Any unauthorized collection or transmission of this data without your permission would be a violation

..I like to use GIFKeyboard through my iMessages (on my iPhone) but there seems to be a freezing problem?
GIFKeyboard within the iMessages freeze whenever I try to open my profile (it doesn't freeze my phone, just within my messages app. I have to exit out of the extension in order to use it again).
As soon as I press the profile button, it instantly freezes. I recently just downloaded GIFKeyboard and logged into my Tenor account this morning and it was working a few hours ago so I’m unsure why it suddenly started freezing whenever I tap on the profile icon?

Hopefully it can be fixed soon as I was really enjoying making my own gifs, maybe that’s the bug? -It didn’t start until I started recording my own gifs within the iMessage extension.

I’ve been using this for years now. It’s way better than the one that is already available for you with your iPhone. This one has a lot more “adult “ friendly GIF ‘s. Which are a lot of fun. If you are currently using the one that’s connected you should just use this one if you’re an adult. You simply DL it and in your settings in your keyboards you would add this application to your keyboard. It’s that simple to do and use. Only thing I’d FIX: You should be able to click on the icon which takes you from the imoji keyboard to the OG keyboard to the GIF this one BUT there seems to be an issue when trying to go back to Imoji. It’s all messed up and I e tried reinstalling GIFKeyboard . Phone off n on. Updates r new.

If you are looking for something to say in GIG it’s pretty much there! I do alternate betweeen it and my regular keyboard perhaps because I am used to my regular keyboard or perhaps I feel the old one is faster ? Is that bc I’m used to it I don’t know possibly I just started using this so it will take some getting used to but I do love it because like I say any GIF I’ve looked for so far is there!! And really you do alternating between your regular keyboard and the GIF because you have to patch the world to get the other one so there is that I’m being silly ha ha if you think you’re going in between them is sort of are !! LOL!! Just get used to it 😂 smiley is even there! Just close the tenor!

GIFKeyboard has extremely amazing GIFS from my personal experience & my use of GIFKeyboard it literally has every thats one can imaginable and have the ability to personalize a message on the Gif of your choice.
I also enjoy that if your. GIF gets voted by
the Ppl you will get notify how many times others use it and Shared If that doesn’t impress you perhaps this may be something that will convince you of the fact that if your GIF is shared & voted it will be selected by Tenor to be permanently be featured on their app so
Others may wish to use. As an example I have one particular GIF that was shared & loved by over 15,000 people now is being featured permanently by Tenor so others can see it and use it
Look at it give it a chance use it personalized it & you will see what I’m speaking about. I hope you ENJOY GIFKeyboard as much as I do.
I would like to take a moment to thank the creator of GIFKeyboard they are continually keep up with all the changes from lLove politics and so much much more. Keep it up y’all.

I love GIFKeyboard and I use it all the time the only problem I have is I lose gif sometimes. It looks like it is trying to download some I saved at the very beginning but never loads. Not sure what some of them are but a few I have redone loaded. I have several categorized packs that use to have gifs in them but now they are empty. I truly believe it is worth 5 stars since I use it multiple times a day I do wish these small insignificant issues could be fixed but in the big scheme of life this is the really really small stuff :)

I thought I hit send forever ago but apparently this review was in save mode :/

SOOOO UPDATE!!! still Love GIFKeyboard and having the keyboard... I do not create or save many things under my profile but I do think it is pretty cool I created one where I put my own text and it has over 50,000 likes, uses or saves ... whatever , that was never my intent I made it from me to someone but it is pretty $&@!ing
Cool on some level

This was the first and only app I downloaded for gifs. It’s been alright since I’ve had it for maybe 2 years or so. It would freeze every now and then, but it was tolerable. With the recent update to accommodate IOS 11, it freezes on me constantly (Yes, everything is updated). Every time I try to copy a gif to my keyboard this occurs. As you could imagine, or as you may already be aware, this is pretty frustrating. Hopefully it’s just a small glitch they’ll have worked out soon. Or maybe it’s because my 6S SO is unable to handle it, but I highly doubt that. I hardly write reviews, and I’m sure this is a bug that’ll be worked out soon enough, but as a man who likes to use gifs as a frequent means of communication, I’m already weary of this bug.

I really enjoy using the new Tenor Keyboard due to the fact that it already has categories to chose from upon searching for a certain GIF to use. Prior to having access to this awesome updated keyboard, I would, at times, have to search for several minutes before reaching my objective in feeling good about the emotion that I am sending to the person on the receiving end of my written conversation. Therefore this Tenor Keyboard has made it so much easier in truly finding what I am looking for when sending a GIF within a message. Kudos to the inventor of the Tenor Keyboard!

GIFKeyboard worked very well at first but after a while the GIFs no longer moved on facebook or everywhere I tried to share them. Recently, most of the time I tried sharing GIFs from GIFKeyboard the GIFs weren’t moving and appeared to be basic n’ average pictures and NOT fun n’ moving images. I thought perhaps it was due to the recent Apple iOS update but it’d been a few weeks and the problem persists. GIFKeyboard has only become less reliable and more impossible to use. Tried and failed to use it today 4 times. Went to the keyboard, copied the GIF I want to use despite the fact that it may end up frozen and just be a still image... tried to paste it as my status and it won’t paste. I tried to do it again, select all, copy ... paste... and it’s not working. GIFKeyboard is busted.