The boring old keyboard just isn't enough. Thankfully, third-party developers are busy making you some emoji and GIF alternatives.

The Kika keyboard offers thousands of emoji, fonts, gifs, stickers and keyboard themes. Kika also has emoji predictions and an emoji dictionary (handy!), and the gifs work on social media platforms.

If you're intent on stepping up your emoji language skills, try a new mobile keyboard. Here are some of the best ones we've found for iOS and Android.

The emoji keyboard is also compatible with most websites out there – including everyone’s favorites Facebook, Twitter and Instagram – and completely transforms your browsing experience once ...

The keyboards can also type in regular English characters The lowest tier Emoji Keyboard is available for pre-order at $79.95, with the Emoji Keyboard Plus at $89.95 and the Pro weighing in at $99.95.

For just $20, the team says it can deliver your very own emoji keyboard in April. It has already built a bunch of prototypes, which it’s stress-testing before going into mass production.

Google's smart keyboard recognizes your hand-scrawled emoji Gboard can also suggest phrases, not just words. Jon Fingas, Reporter Updated Mon, June 12, 2017 at 12:33 PM PDT 1 min read ...

As of Unicode 8.0, there are 1,281 recognized emoji. Each one of those gets an individual key on Scott’s rig. It took a total of 14 keyboards to house them all, creating a massive and ...

But if you want to search Bing for emoji, you have Microsoft’s blessing. The emoji keyboard contains three tabs: emoji, kaomoji, and lastly symbols of all types.

Now that the emoji keyboard has dropped within the Fall Creators Update, it’s cause for ! This story was updated on Oct. 23 to reflect updated information after the launch of the Windows 10 Fall ...

For those Android users lucky enough to own a new KitKat-running device, all you have to do is press and hold the enter or search key to get at its new built-in emoji keyboard. In some apps, it'll ...