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Fans of GIFs will soon be able to add them to text conversations, as Giphy has introduced a GIF keyboard to iOS.
Giphy Keys will allow Apple device users to scroll through a selection of GIFs and add them to conversations. Users can favourite GIFs, and the app also has a 'recently used' section.
You can also scroll through a number of emotional reaction images like "eyeroll" or "smh", and one section of the app can animate words of your choice. As well as the reaction and category based GIFs there's also the option to search the company's library for any GIFs.
There are also a number of hashtags and customisation features, Giphy says. "You can use #echo or #weather to make custom GIFs on the fly, harness the prescient powers of our magic #8ball, and explore many more new and exciting power-ups," it said in a blog post.
Giphy has already integrated with Twitter and office communication tool Slack.
When the GIF website integrated with Twitter, the social network said it wanted to make it easier to share the low res moving images so that people could find the "perfect cat yawn or dance move" to express how they feel.
Giphy says that an "intuitive and frictionless design was crucial" when designing the app, and that it had to be "fast, fun and easy". "All the GIFS and all the keys are there whenever you want them," said Jillian Fisher, Giphy's director of mobile product.
This article was originally published by WIRED UK
