GIF Keyboard

Way better than any ‘native pre-installed’ phone gif-type searches, better than all the ‘in-app’ social media ones also, such as FB or IG, this one tops all of them, has 100x the selection and also gives you the additional options to caption and upload your own and send them. Also gives you the ability to save any you like so you can go back or access quickly later to send to someone. And you can post your own and get credit for them and see how many reshares you get, all from your keyboard. It’s easy to use and navigate, I think it’s all around a very well-made app. Everything’s free also, no annoying ads, or pop-ups. It has iOS imessage integration into the side bar just the same as Bitmoji or your imessage stickers go also. Honestly don’t download anything else but this one.

Ok so cut and dry. I love this app. Truly. The past few years I’ve had it I use it almost daily. So much to choose from. Allows for specific search (which results in typically spot on accuracy according to what you searched) but also has upwards of 20 categories of the different emotions you might be trying to relay. I love that it has the ability to be both a standalone app as well as having keyboard access and functionality. I love that you can find a blank gif w/o text and then edit it so you can add your own text overlay or personalize it. AND ITS ALL FREE! Worked SEAMLESSLY for years. But now and going back to maybe 5-6 months ago, the keyboard and app itself come up when selected in a text. You can perform searches or browse with same level of accuracy and ease. You can scroll thru the available gifs without a problem. Typically, when you see a thumbnail of a gif you may want to use and then click on it, it opens that gif as a preview so you can see it in more detail. From there you can either paste it into your text, edit it, or save it to your favorites. Easy peasy lemon squeezie. But NOW when you go to select the gif in order to see it at full scale, it sends you completely back to initial welcome screen (where you see the search bar as well as the emotive categories) and the menu bar at the bottom. Now the catch is, you can still PASTE it into a text even tho it looks like it completely kicked you out before it could even be copied. This used to be intermittent when the glitches first started happening. You would select a gif and instead of the preview, you get booted to the Home Screen of the app. So you had to go thru that whole sequence several times before it would actually let you see previews. Fast forward to present day. The preview/save to favorites function is completely dead. Ousts you every single time you try to preview. It’s major bummer city. Please fix asap (for iOS 17).

While I love gifs & think this is the best gif keyboard out there, it leaves much to be desired. I’ve had this issue since either Riffsy rebranded to Tenor or since Google bought the app…it’s been a while. First, my empty packs wouldn’t delete. I would try to reorganize my gifs, only to have the empty pack show back up. Then, and this is the more annoying issue, my packs show up as empty. I’ve been using this app since the beginning (or if not the beginning then close to it). All the gifs in the that I have carefully cultivated into packs over the years are gone. If I add new gifs to the packs, they’ll show up temporarily. And, gifs that I’ve added to the packs show up on the cover of the pack but aren’t in the pack itself. Now, I can’t delete empty packs because what if they aren’t actually empty? I’ve emailed at least once a year about this issue, and it’s unfortunately still unresolved. As annoying as this issue is, I will still continue to use the app because, as I said previously, this is the best gif keyboard app I’ve found.