# ABCDEF Keyboard Custom layout — user reviews > 10 indexed App Store user reviews of ABCDEF Keyboard Custom layout by Philipp Baldauf, rated 3.60/5 from 27 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/abcdef-keyboard-custom-layout/id1465367757/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/abcdef-keyboard-custom-layout/id1465367757.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 13 · 4★ 5 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 6 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2025-10-20* The keyboard won’t show up when going to change my keyboard with the globe icon. It’s on in settings. Very annoying as I needed this for a science project in school, waste of money. ### 1/5 — Was very excited… but uggh *2025-10-14* App is missing some VERY basic features and is not intuitively designed. Waste of $4. Don’t bother. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work in imessage which is a huge bummer *2023-06-25* Wanted it for my grandfather but would rather him have a consistent keyboard rather than abcde keyboard only in a few apps and qwerty in others… **Developer response:** Hi Tararose37, thanks for your feedback. Just to clarify, the keyboard does also work in iMessage, it just has to be set via the world icon in the bottom left. The latest version also has auto suggestions, so it is even easier for your grandfather to type. ### 1/5 — Full access *2020-09-22* Unfortunately, while you do not have to enable full access when you install the app, Apple informs you after the fact that you have given the developer permission to view everything you type. Unacceptable. **Developer response:** There are two different types of keyboards, those with limited access, such as this keyboard. It cannot see what you type and cannot transfer any data out of the keyboard. This is enforced through technical measures from Apple and guaranteed from us as developers. There is another type of keyboard, which this keyboard is NOT, that has full access. Apple clarifies this when reading the warning carefully. They do however show this warning for all keyboards. Let me know if you were able to find this distinction in the warning. We would be happy to have you as a user. ### 4/5 — Smaller keys *2025-04-29* It is nice to have some punctuation available on screen. However, it also cramp all the keys smaller and make them harder to hit. I bought this app for my aging father who doesn’t remember QWERT keyboard layout any more. This helped him but also difficult for him due to smaller keys. Please provide options to turn off punctuation and make the keys larger. Thank you and you are the only app available out there. Please keep this as many of us need this. ### 5/5 — Works well but needs swipe *2026-08-04* This is useful, but would be much better with swipe functionality ### 5/5 — Hilfreich für Blinde *2026-06-11* Da ich blind bin ist diese Tastatur eine große Hilfe für mich. Herr Baldauf ist Anfragen gegenüber sehr aufgeschlossen. ### 5/5 — Best $3.99 to spend on the App Store in 2025 *2025-11-26* Since the advent of major social media apps on iPhone, the app store hasn’t had many fun prank apps to gift to your friends. This app is sure to confuse the heck out of whoever has to use it. 10/10 would gift to all my friends ### 5/5 — Nice for homeschool *2024-12-09* I purchased this app to use with my younger homeschool students. We sometimes type our spelling assignments as fun alternative to writing them out by hand, but because they haven’t learned to type yet the QWERTY keyboard was slowing them down too much. I was glad to find this alphabetical order keyboard that works in Apple Notes on our iPad. Works great! ### 5/5 — Perfekt für meinen Opa *2020-05-02* Funktiert super vielen Dank 🙂 **Developer response:** Hallo Rudib39, danke für deine netten Worte :) Ich hoffe dein Opa hat Freude am Tippen :) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-04.*