Comparison

Google vs Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Google

This app provides a comprehensive search experience, integrating AI for quick answers and personalized content. It allows you to search using images, voice, or text, and offers features like song identification and real-time translation.

Highlights
  • AI Overviews for quick answers
  • Image search with Lens
  • Hum to Search for song identification
  • Personalized Discover feed
  • Real-time camera translation
  • Home screen search widget
Features
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Download the Google app to find quick answers, explore your interests, and ask anything on your mind in any way. Try AI in Google Search with AI Mode, Lens, Search Live, and more. Feature highlights*: • AI Mode: Get AI-powered responses to your toughest questions with AI Mode–talk, type, or snap a photo to get started, and ask follow-up questions to dig deeper. You’ll continue to see a range of helpful links so you can keep exploring across the web. • Google Lens: See something you like? Snap a photo and discover where to shop for it, find related images, and more. Refine your camera searches by adding words – whether you want those shoes but in ‘blue’, or want to learn how to ‘repair’ that broken bit on your bicycle. • Search Live: Have a live, real-time conversation in Search by using your voice and camera to easily get answers and on-screen links to the web when you need them. • AI Overviews: Get a snapshot of key information about a topic or question, like ’how to fix a broken zipper’, with links so you can easily explore more on the web. • Hum to Search: Can't remember the name of that song? Hum the tune and Google will help find it for you—no lyrics, artist name or perfect pitch required. You can also search for a song playing near you. • Discover: Stay up-to-date on topics that matter to you. Get personalized news, articles, and videos based on your interests. • Google Search Widget: Search faster from your home screen or lock screen, with easy shortcuts to AI Mode, Lens, and more. Google Search, totally reimagined with AI • Explore a new intelligent Search box that expands with your curiosity, offers AI powered suggestions and lets you search with text, videos and more. • Bring your toughest questions to Search. With a more seamless Search experience, you can go from an AI Overview on the search results page to asking follow-up questions in AI Mode, with links to the web. • Get help with planning, researching, brainstorming new ideas, and more with the latest Gemini models delivering frontier performance for agents and coding. • Bring your ideas to life by transforming your photos in Lens or creating images in AI Mode with Nano Banana. Available in select languages and locations. Search what you see with Google Lens: • Use your camera to identify what you’re looking at. Identify plants and animals, translate text in real-time, find similar products to buy, and even solve math problems with step-by-step guides. • Translate over 100 languages on things like road signs when you travel, menus, and more by pointing your camera at text. • Reverse image search: Find the source, similar photos, and related information for any image. • Get step-by-step homework help on math, physics and word problems, and testing your knowledge with Questions and Answers are now fully supported within the Google app. Search safely and securely: • All searches in the Google app are protected by encrypting the connection between your device and Google. • Privacy controls are easy to find and use. Tap your profile picture to access your menu and delete recent search history from your account with one click. • Search proactively filters webspam to help ensure that you see safe, high-quality results. Learn more about what the Google app can do for you: https://search.google/ Privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy Your feedback helps us create products you'll love. Join a user research study here: https://goo.gl/kKQn99 *Features may not be available in all countries.

About

Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard

This intelligent keyboard learns your writing style to provide accurate autocorrect and helpful predictions. It offers customizable themes and quick access to emojis and GIFs, allowing you to communicate faster and more efficiently.

Highlights
  • Learns writing style
  • Accurate autocorrect
  • Helpful predictions
  • Customizable themes
  • Emoji and GIF support
  • Swipe and tap typing
Features
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Microsoft SwiftKey is the intelligent keyboard that learns your writing style, so you can type faster. Microsoft SwiftKey is always learning and adapting to match your unique way of typing - including your slang, nicknames and emojis. That means autocorrect that actually works and helpful predictions, so you can get your point across fast, without errors. Customise your keyboard to match your style, with dozens of themes to choose from. Send emojis, GIFs and more to your friends – Microsoft SwiftKey even learns your favourite emoji. Let Microsoft SwiftKey help you text faster with Artificial Intelligence, swipe-to-type and more! Download today. TYPE LESS, DO MORE Intelligent Keyboard - Microsoft SwiftKey learns from you, including your word choice, emoji usage and more - Swipe typing or tap-to-type, whichever you prefer - Toolbar: the expandable menu filled with quick shortcuts

Screenshots

Google4 screens
Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard at none against Google's shown. Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). Google's advantage is ratings volume (5.1M vs 121K) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Google sells 22 in-app purchases, starting at $0.89 per month and Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Google against 4.6 for Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google has 5.1M ratings behind it against 121K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 59% of Google's written reviews are positive against 53% of Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Google ships an update every 5 days, Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Google versus Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoogleMicrosoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (5.1M ratings)4.6 (121K ratings)
Positive reviews59.1% of reviews — better52.9% of reviews
Number of ratings5.1M — better121K
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#1 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size485 MB175 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperGoogleSwiftKey

Customer experience

Google

All ratings5,108,043 ratings
Positive91.4%
Neutral2.9%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews10,353 reviews
Positive59.1%
Neutral5.7%
Negative35.1%

Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard

All ratings121,360 ratings
Positive89.2%
Neutral3.9%
Negative6.9%
Written reviews5,817 reviews
Positive52.9%
Neutral11.0%
Negative36.1%

User reviews

Google

From 5.1M App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Reliable and feature-packed
  • 👍 Seamless integration with other Google services
  • 🔍 Accurate and personalized search results
  • 📱 Intuitive and smooth interface
  • 🔍 Helpful Google Assistant

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
  • 🔍 Biased or irrelevant search results
  • 📱 Slow performance and freezing issues
  • 🔍 Forced use of Google Lens
  • 🔍 Difficulty removing unwanted content from feed

Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard

From 121K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Smooth swiping and typing experience
  • 👍 Customizable keyboard themes
  • 💡 Supports multiple languages
  • 🚀 Accurate word predictions
  • 👍 Helpful punctuation and emoji features

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Keyboard glitches and crashes
  • 🐛 Inconsistent autocorrect and word replacement
  • 🐛 Keyboard disappearing or reverting to default
  • 🔒 Privacy concerns around full keyboard access
  • 🔋 Increased battery drain

Bugs and requests

Google

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Search bar freezes or takes a long time to load
  • Tabs disappearing or not saving properly
  • Inability to save images or access image search
  • Crashing or force closing issues
  • Inconsistent dark mode/light mode behavior

Requested features

5 requests
  • Option to disable Google Lens
  • Improved tab management
  • Ability to customize news feed interests
  • Restore image download functionality
  • Dedicated search mode for trucks and larger vehicles

Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Keyboard not loading properly in certain apps
  • Incorrect word replacements and autocorrect issues
  • Keyboard resizing and positioning problems
  • Keyboard freezing or crashing during use

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add voice typing functionality
  • Improve emoji search and selection
  • Allow customization of keyboard layout and key sizes
  • Provide option to disable Bing integration
  • Add support for more languages

In-app purchases

22 purchases

Google

Subscriptions22
  • 30 GB$0.891 Month
  • 100 GB$1.991 Month
  • 100 GB1 Month trial3 variants$1.991 Month
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  • 100 GB3 Months trial$1.991 Month
  • 200 GB$2.991 Month
  • 200 GB1 Month trial3 variants$2.991 Month
  • Google AI Plus (400 GB)$4.991 Month
  • Google AI Plus (400 GB)1 Month trial$4.991 Month
  • Google AI Plus (2 TB)$9.991 Month
  • 2 TB1 Month trial3 variants$9.991 Month
  • 100 GB$19.991 Year
  • Google AI Pro (5 TB)1 Month trial2 variants$19.991 Month
  • Google AI Pro (5 TB)$19.991 Month
  • Google AI Pro (2 TB)$19.991 Month
  • 5 TB2 variants$24.991 Month
  • 200 GB$29.991 Year
  • 200 GB1 Year trial$29.991 Year
  • Google AI Plus (400 GB)$49.991 Year
  • 10 TB$49.991 Month
  • Google AI Plus (2 TB)$99.991 Year
  • 30 TB$149.991 Month
  • 5 TB$249.991 Year
10 purchases

Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard

One-time10
  • Shooting Stars themeFree
  • Minimal Coal themeFree
  • Minimal Iceberg themeFree
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  • Nickel Dusk themeFree
  • Minimal Aqua themeFree
  • Minimal Carbon themeFree
  • Minimal Blush themeFree
  • Nickel Rose themeFree
  • Nickel Watermelon themeFree
  • Bubble Gum themeFree

Questions

Is Google free?
Google is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard free?
Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Google or Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard?
Google and Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard are both rated 4.6 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5.1M and 121K ratings respectively.
Do Google or Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard have ads?
Google shows ads; Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard does not.
Which is updated more often, Google or Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard?
Google ships an update every 5 days, and Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard every 2 weeks. Most recently, Google was updated on September 24, 2026 and Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard on September 24, 2026.

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