{"id":72823,"date":"2014-09-12T22:43:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T20:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=72823"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:28:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:28:42","slug":"popkey-is-a-gif-keyboard-for-ios-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/popkey-is-a-gif-keyboard-for-ios-8\/","title":{"rendered":"PopKey is a GIF keyboard for iOS 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is opening up its operating system to <strong>third-party keyboards<\/strong> for the first time with <a title=\"Everything you need to know about iOS 8\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ios-8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS 8<\/a>. One keyboard you can look forward to using is <strong>PopKey<\/strong>, which lets you chat with friends by sending <strong>animated GIFs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the crazy <a title=\"The Wall Street Journal\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2014\/09\/09\/emoji-only-messaging-apps-find-growing-market\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">emoji messaging app<\/a> that only lets you reply with emojis, PopKey still works like a normal keyboard but you can pull up animated GIFs at the bottom. You can even <strong>upload your own<\/strong> GIFs to send to friends.<\/p>\n<p>GIFs are categorized by featured, trending and different categories like <a title=\"Giphy\" href=\"http:\/\/giphy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Giphy<\/a>. The best part of PopKey is that GIFs <strong>animate inline<\/strong> with your chat instead of sending a link your friend has to tap.<\/p>\n<p>PopKey isn\u2019t out yet, but you can sign up to be alerted when it launches. I expect the keyboard to be <a title=\"iTunes updated to prepare for iOS 8 arrival on Sept 17\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/ios-8-arrives-sept-17-itunes-already-updated-to-support-it\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launching with iOS 8<\/a> on Wednesday. If you want a more traditional keyboard experience, you can look forward to <a title=\"SwiftKey gesture keyboard will debut with iOS 8\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/swiftkey-gesture-keyboard-launches-ios-8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SwiftKey<\/a> for iPhone and iPad.<\/p>\n<p>Want to know what&#8217;s the <strong>best iOS 8 keyboard<\/strong>? 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One keyboard you can look forward to using is PopKey, which lets you chat with friends by sending animated GIFs. Unlike the crazy emoji messaging app that only lets you reply with emojis, PopKey still works like a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/popkey-is-a-gif-keyboard-for-ios-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PopKey is a GIF keyboard for iOS 8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":72826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-72823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330171,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72823\/revisions\/330171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72823"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=72823"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=72823"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=72823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}