WAVE calendar vs Gboard - the Google Keyboard

Available in English, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Chinese, and Russian.

If a location to an event is added, the app will show a map and allow pulling up Google Maps for directions.

Wave allows creating local and Google Tasks to-do items that can be synced across devices and color-coded.

The app has day, week, week-agenda, month, month-agenda and list views.

Day, 3-day and week views split up the days horizontally and hours vertically.

Week agenda splits the screen in 6 equal parts - 5 parts for work days, sixth for weekend. Double-tapping a day will open a list of events for that day. From here swiping left and right allows moving between days.

Month view splits the screen in half with one half displaying a typical month view with color-coded dots next to dates to show which days have events and the other a list of events for the selected day.

Month agenda view lays out all days in a grid and displays all event for the day.

The list view is actually the closest to a typical agenda view despite the name. The difference here is that there are two modes of showing that information - default and detailed. The default mode displays date, time, event name and location (if available) and the detailed mode displays extra information such as what calendar is the event part of, who's attending, notes, etc.

Another app on offer from the publisher is WAVE Scheduler, which integrates into WAVE Calendar for easy event planning.

The app will color-code different calendars in different colors as well as allow selecting a different color for each event.

The app has a store for sports, stock exchange, holiday, religion and other calendars.

The Google Keyboard supports swiping along the keyboard to spell out whole words.

After using a gesture a few times and clicking the correct word, Google Keyboard learns that the gesture should result in the word you've manually selected as the correct word. Swype doesn't seem to learn this, so even after 100 times clicking 'this' instead of 'thesis', it still produces 'thesis', where Google Keyboard learns that you meant to say 'this'.

Google Keyboard has material design themes the user can skin the keyboard with.

Hold down the key in the lower left hand corner and a keyboard if punctuation appears. Swipe over to the one you want, lift your finger, and the original keyboard pops back. It's very fast, and makes it much easier to spot the punctuation mark you want - instead of trying to squint at the secondary symbols in the keys.

This keyboard is not a free trial nor will it hold back any new features to sell you a paid version. The keyboard is completely 100% free.

While other keyboard options may be very functional, their visual design tends to differ from the rest of your Google device. The Google Keyboard was designed by Google and it looks like it.

Alternative keyboards tend to suck up system resources, often making them nearly unusable on older phones. Google Keyboard is very quick to open when typing and the keys rarely lag.

The keyboard has button that allows searching Google straight from the keyboard, and use the search results in the currently used app.

The GBoard has an emoji search that's very convenient, saves time looking for a specific one if you don't know/remember what category it's in.

The dynamic floating preview appears while gesture typing. Most gesture keyboards only show the preview above the keyboard in the suggested corrections. The dynamic floating preview is great because it makes it easier to gesture type by keeping your eyes focused on what you are typing.

For those that are used to typing on a Dvorak keyboard or prefer not to need multiple key presses to access special symbols they can enable these as additional quick switch options. Using the English PC layout for example gives the user a number row.

Makes it easier to type with no more than a thumb.

Google keyboard does not promise to be as "smart" as other keyboards besides offering a personalized dictionary. Surprisingly this is actually a good thing for some because with many "smart" keyboards predictions and corrections actually worsen over time. With Google Keyboard the experience will remain constant because it requires you to manually "touch again to save" before it changes your personal dictionary. This prevents mistakes from becoming part of your personal dictionary.

Most Android devices have GBoard installed.