What is an
Agentic Keyboard?
An Agentic Keyboard is a mobile keyboard with an invisible AI agent inside every text field. It doesn't just produce words — it takes action on your behalf, right where you're typing, without ever leaving the app you're in.
Type a place. Acti picks it up and drops a live map link into the message — no app switch.
It doesn't predict your next word. It takes your next action.
A mobile keyboard with an AI agent built into every text field. Where a normal keyboard turns keystrokes into text, an Agentic Keyboard turns intent into action — finding a link, drafting a reply, creating a meeting or running a workflow — and completes it inside any app, without switching away.
The name says it: at the core is an AI agent— software that doesn't just answer a question, but takes the steps to carry out a task. Put one inside your keyboard, and every text field turns into a place to get things done.
For most of computing history the keyboard has had one job: turn keystrokes into text. Every improvement — autocomplete, swipe typing, voice dictation — was just a faster way to do that same single thing. An Agentic Keyboard breaks the pattern: it reads not just what you typed, but what you're trying to do, and then does it — and the output isn't a cleaner sentence, it's a completed action: a link found, a document pulled, a meeting created, a reply sent.
The keyboard stops being a tool you type into, and becomes an agent that acts for you — in every text box on your phone.
Traditional, Voice, AI, Agentic — four keyboards.
| Dimension | Traditional | Voice | AI | Agentic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main role | Input text | Speak instead of type | Improve text | Take action |
| Core value | Typing | Hands-free input | Writing assistance | Intent execution |
| Typical output | Characters | Transcribed text | Better sentences | Links, replies, summaries, workflows, skills |
| User behavior | Type manually | Dictate aloud | Ask AI to rewrite | Trigger actions from context |
| Surface | Text field | Text field | Text field | Any text field as an action layer |
| Extensibility | Fixed keys | Fixed dictation | AI features | Custom skills |
In simple terms: a traditional keyboard helps you type. A voice keyboard lets you dictate. An AI keyboard helps you write better. An Agentic Keyboard helps you act.
Type. Hold. Preview. Apply.
An Agentic Keyboard sits inside every app — messages, email, notes, social, anywhere there's a text field. The whole loop is simple enough to become a reflex — and you always see the result before anything happens.
Type what you need
In plain language, in whatever app you're already in — no special syntax, no command line. Type it, or speak it; the input doesn't matter.
Hold the Acti Bar
Press to type, hold to act. A hold passes your request to the agent, which reads not just your words but the intent behind them — what you actually want to happen.
Preview the result
The agent does the work and shows you a ready-to-use result — a link, a reply, a summary, a meeting — right there in the keyboard. Nothing is sent or changed yet.
Tap to apply
Insert it, send it, open it — or tweak your words and run again. You stay in control of every action; the keyboard only acts when you say so.
How Acti works as an Agentic Keyboard
Acti brings actions into the keyboard through Acti Bar, Skill Keys, and custom skills. It turns every text field into an action surface.
Acti Bar
Understands intent and suggests useful actions, directly from the keyboard.
Skill Keys
Hold or tap a key to trigger a specific skill, such as creating a meeting link or generating a reply.
Custom Skills
Build or install skills that match your personal workflows.
What can an Agentic Keyboard do?
Create a meeting link
Create a Google Meet link directly from your keyboard and send it in one tap.
Write better replies
Generate replies that match the conversation, tone, and context without leaving the app.
Summarize text
Turn long messages, notes, or articles into quick summaries from any text field.
Translate while typing
Translate messages as you type across apps and conversations.
Send maps
Create and send map links without opening another app.
Run custom skills
Trigger custom actions and workflows directly from your keyboard.
Build your own Skills — in plain language.
These actions aren't features Acti hard-coded. Each one is a Skill — and anyone can build one in plain language through Acti's Skill Builder, with no coding required, then keep it private or publish it to the Skill Hub for others to add to their own keyboards.
Describe it, in plain words
Tell the agent what you want to happen. Skill Builder assembles the prompt, tools and output into a working Skill — no code, no config.
Keep it, or share it
Keep a Skill private, or publish it to the Skill Hub marketplace for anyone to add to their own keyboard in a single tap.
Skills already built by early adopters — and the library grows every day.
Apple's and Google's keyboards are closed systems only their makers can change. Acti is the first to make the keyboard an open, programmable platform.
Connected to everything you already use.
An agent is only as useful as what it can reach. Acti connects two ways — link your own accounts with secure OAuth (Gmail, Slack, Notion, your calendar and more), or tap a library of 150+ APIs you can build with, no setup required. Either way the action runs right inside your keyboard — nothing to open, nothing to copy-paste.
Gmail
Slack
Notion
Google Calendar
Google Meet
CalendlyAnd because actions are built in plain language, any service with an API can become a new key — no code, and no waiting for an official integration.
Acti vs Gboard, Grammarly & Wispr Flow
Every keyboard before Acti was built to help you produce text — faster, cleaner, or hands-free. Acti adds the layer none of them have: it turns that text into a completed action. Here's where the lines fall.
| Gboard | Grammarly | Wispr Flow | Acti | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Predictive keyboard | Writing assistant | Voice dictation | Agentic keyboard |
| What you get | Faster typing | Cleaner writing | Speech → text | A completed action |
| Voice input | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fixes & rewrites text | Basic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Takes actions for you | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Connects to your apps & APIs | — | — | — | ✓ 150+ |
| Build your own skills, no code | — | — | — | ✓ |
Each product is compared in its primary role — Gboard (Google) as a predictive keyboard, Grammarly as a writing assistant, Wispr Flow as voice dictation. All three are excellent at producing text; Acti is built to act on it.
Why not just use ChatGPT or Siri?
If an AI can already answer you, why put one in the keyboard? Because answering and acting aren't the same — and where the agent liveschanges everything. ChatGPT and Siri are places you go; Acti is already where you're typing.
ChatGPT
Powerful, but it lives in its own app. You leave your conversation, type the request, then copy the answer back — the work happens in another window.
Siri
Handy for quick voice commands, but it doesn't compose or take action inside the text field you're already in — and most real tasks fall outside what it can do.
Acti
No app to open, no copy-paste. The agent lives inside every text field and acts right where you're typing — typed or spoken, in any app.
ChatGPT and Siri are assistants you go to. Acti is an agent that's already where you work.
Why the Agentic Keyboard is possible today
The idea isn't new because no one wanted it — it's new because it only just became possible. Two things had to be true.
Language models had to understand intent. Until recently, software could read your words but not your meaning. Modern AI can finally extract the action behind a sentence — the difference between recording what you typed and understanding what you want done.
And the interface was hiding in plain sight. The keyboard is the most universal surface on your phone — it appears in every app, in every text field, at the exact moment a thought becomes words. It's where intent is born. That makes it the natural home for an agent. For twenty years it sat there doing one thing. Now it can do everything.
Built by the team behind a 550M-download keyboard.
Defining a new category — and winning it — takes more than a good idea. It takes people who've shipped consumer products at scale and put a keyboard on hundreds of millions of phones. Acti's founders have done exactly that.
Spent nearly a decade at Baidu International, where he helped grow Facemoji Keyboard past 550M downloads — later ranked #9 on a16z's Top 50 Gen AI mobile apps — and co-built Yike Album, one of China's largest consumer cloud-photo products.
Agentic Keyboard FAQ
What is an Agentic Keyboard?
An Agentic Keyboard is a mobile keyboard with an AI agent built into every text field — it understands what you're trying to do and completes the action from inside the keyboard. For example, it can share a location, find a link, check a price, rewrite a message, translate text, create a meeting link, or run a custom skill, all without leaving the app you're in.
What can an Agentic Keyboard do?
It can create a meeting link, draft a reply, summarize text, translate as you type, share a location, and run custom workflows — all from the keyboard, inside any app. Because it connects to 100+ apps and APIs, anything you can describe in plain language can become an action.
How is it different from an AI keyboard?
An AI keyboard improves the words you type, by fixing grammar or rewriting sentences. An Agentic Keyboard goes further and acts on your intent. The output isn't better text — it's a completed action.
How is it different from a voice keyboard?
A voice keyboard changes how words get in — you speak instead of type. An Agentic Keyboard changes what comes out — actions instead of just text. Faster input, typed or spoken, is still just typing.
Is an Agentic Keyboard the same as ChatGPT or Siri?
No. ChatGPT and Siri are assistants you go to — you switch to an app or call them by voice. An Agentic Keyboard lives inside every text field, so it acts right where you're already typing, with no app-switching or copy-paste.
Is an Agentic Keyboard safe to use?
A well-designed Agentic Keyboard only acts when you ask it to — no silent actions, no hidden sending. You stay in control of every action, and you decide what the keyboard can access.
Where can I get an Agentic Keyboard?
Acti is the world's first Agentic Keyboard, available on iOS and Android. It introduces the Acti Bar — press to type, hold to act — and lets you build your own actions in plain language.
What was the first Agentic Keyboard?
Acti is the world's first Agentic Keyboard. Launched on iOS and Android, it introduced the category along with the Acti Bar — press to type, hold to act — and the Skill Hub for building and sharing skills.
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It doesn't predict your next word. It takes your next action.