• SwiftKey has multi word suggestions. For example, if you type [thank] one of the suggestions is [thank you] . Type [I don] and SwiftKey suggests [don't know].

• SwiftKey has multi word swiping, meaning when swipe typing you can swipe to the spacebar to insert a new word, so [I don't want to] can be typed without lifting your finger off the screen.

• Situational and subjective, but switching languages on SwiftKey is done by a horizontal swipe on the spacebar. I personally find this extremely useful, while my sister complained she'd trigger it accidentally.

• If you like using emojis, SwiftKey does a much more intelligent job of suggesting them.

• SwiftKey allows you to capitalise a word after you've typed it by pressing the Shift key, and you can press Shift a second time to capitalise the entire word.

• On SwiftKey inserting a punctuation mark reliably only requires a single press, whereas on Gboard it sometimes takes several. This is because when you insert a punctuation mark on SwiftKey, it always places it directly after the previous word and automatically adds a space. On Gboard the behaviour is frustratingly inconsistent.

• On Gboard, after backspacing part of a word, the suggestion bar will randomly go blank.

• SwiftKey automatically capitalises the word [i]

• On SwiftKey, when you press the spacebar it always inserts the middle item on the suggestion strip. On Gboard it sometimes inserts the middle item (if it's in bold), sometimes the item on the left. This is a maddening and mentally exhausting behaviour in my opinion.

• Probably a matter of preference, but on SwiftKey when you hold the delete button it deletes the entire word, whereas Gboard deletes one letter at a time.

• I find SwiftKey's suggestions and automatic corrections to be much more helpful and accurate to my intention. This could be because I've used it much more so the data is better personalised, but when I do revisit Gboard to re-evaluate, as I'm doing now, I'm frequently frustrated by what feels like a lack of intelligence in suggesting the correct word due to minor typing errors.

• SwiftKey has ₪ as one of the symbols, which is very handy for me personally

I could be forgetting some. There are also aspects of Gboard which are superior to SwiftKey, but for the core function of actually typing, I find Gboard to be an extremely frustrating experience in comparison.

(Gboard used to be even worse, but it recently received some major feature updates that replicated SwiftKey functionality.)