Google Keep finally gets text formatting options on Android

You can now bold, italicize, underline, and strikethrough your text in Google Keep on Android.

The latest update on Android brings text formatting options and version history. (Express image)

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If you are a fan of Google Keep, the simple and smart note-taking app, you will be happy to know that it has just received a long-awaited update on Android. Google announced this week that you can now format your text in different ways, such as bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough. This will make your notes more organised and expressive, and you should see the new options in the app soon.

Google Keep is one of the most popular note-taking apps out there – it is fast, available on Android, iOS, and the web, and it integrates well with other Google products. But it has been lacking some basic features for years. For instance, you could not change the appearance of your text in any way and that’s why many users have been requesting for formatting options for a long time.

Google seems to have finally listened to them and has started rolling out the update to Android users. The update now adds a new bar that sits above the keyboard with a number of text formatting options. These options should come in useful when you want to emphasise a word or a phrase, cross out something you have done or changed, or simply to make your notes look more appealing.

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Google Keep is FINALLY rolling out text formatting support!

I just updated the Google Keep Android app to version 5.23.322.05 and got the feature.

It seems the feature is slowly rolling out to some users. Let me know if text formatting is enabled for you! pic.twitter.com/PB0jmCZ0XH

— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) August 18, 2023

Some people have already spotted the feature before its official launch, so it should not take long for everyone to get it. The update also brings version history, so you can see all the changes you have made to your notes over time.

This is not the first time that Google has shown some love to Keep this year. Earlier, it introduced a new home screen widget and the ability to open multiple Keep windows at once on your device.

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