Pinterest acquires Fleksy to improve its visual search platform

Fleksy, a company well known for its gesture based keyboard app, has been acquired by content sharing website Pinterest. The financial details of the deal are not yet known.

The acquisition comes in the month marking four years since Fleksy launched a standalone keyboard app on iOS for visually impaired users. Although the third-party keyboard app has been acquired by Pinterest, it will still remain available on the iOS and Android app stores “for the unforeseeable future.”

“Pinterest is intensely focused on refining the mobile experiences that make it possible to flow effortlessly through our catalog of ideas — on any device, any place in the world,” said Scott Goodson, Pinterest’s head of core experience. “The Fleksy team is made up of truly noteworthy engineers and world experts in their areas. These technical artists have a history of developing architecturally innovative, highly optimized software.”

Although Fleksy has remained a bit less popular as compared to Google Keyboard and SwiftKey, it was selected as one of the “Best Apps of 2015” on Google Play Store. The keyboard app was made free for users last year, in order to expand its reach to more users.