Best azooKey alternatives: apps like azooKey - Flex Japanese Input

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Updated November 2026

azooKey is great, but it's not the only option. Explore 10+ similar apps for iPhone and iPad, each reviewed and rated by real users. Find free alternatives, premium upgrades, and hidden gems.

Top Alternatives to azooKey

flick(フリック)#1

flick(フリック) by IO Inc.

2M Emoticons Custom Keyboard
Editor's Choice
🔧 Utilities
4.7(61 ratings)
FreeAdsIn-App Purchases
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This keyboard app offers intelligent Japanese text input with AI conversion, a vast library of over 2 million emoticons and ASCII art, and customizable themes using your own images and videos. It aims to enhance your communication with expressive and context-aware typing.

Japanese Keyboard - Japan Text#2

Japanese Keyboard - Japan Text by Bhavik Savaliya

Japanese Input Keyboard
Strong Contender
🔧 Utilities
3.5(32 ratings)
FreeAdsIn-App Purchases
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Type messages, stories, and emails in Japanese with this customizable keyboard. Choose from beautiful themes, set your own photos as backgrounds, and access over 500 emojis and a Japanese dictionary for spell check. Share Japanese words easily across social networks.

CharMap — Unicode Characters#3

CharMap — Unicode Characters by Conor Mulligan

Unicode viewer and keyboard
Worth Considering
🔧 Utilities
4.0😐(57 ratings)
Free
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Explore and manage Unicode characters with this utility. Organize favorites, view details, and copy characters to your clipboard. Use the custom keyboard to insert them anywhere and sync collections across devices.

What We Love

  • 🌟 Genuinely amazing for needs
  • 💡 Custom keyboards brilliant
  • 💯 Has every Unicode
  • ✨ Very impressive
  • 👍 Great for computer science
  • 🚀 Smooth operation
  • 🆓 No ads or purchases
  • 💯 Extremely well developed
  • 🤩 Free and functional
  • 📱 Great interface on iPad
  • 🆓 Always super content
  • 👍 Works really well
  • 💯 One of the best unicode apps
  • ✨ Great app with customization
  • 👍 Nice simple app
  • 👍 Good UI, professional feel
  • 💡 Useful for math and science
  • 💯 Faultless operation
  •  Worth it for special characters
  • 💯 Fantastic app

Room to Improve

  • ❌ No return/enter key
  • ❓ Feature not obvious
  • ⚠️ Characters omitted in other apps
  • ⚪ Keyboard looks like white rectangle
  • 😵 UI is ugly and old
  • ⚫ Symbols black on keyboard
  • ❓ Search feature poor
  • 💥 Crashes every time
  • 🗑️ Everything gone after update
  • 🗑️ App doesn't open after update
  • ❌ Missing blocks
  • 🗑️ Waste of money
  • ❌ Doesn't work
  • ❌ Not helpful
  • ❓ Confused about functionality
  • ❌ Faulty app
  • ❓ Don't understand how it works
  • 🗑️ Garbage and a waste
  • 🗑️ Rip off
  • ❓ Is it on iPhone or iPod touch?
  • 🗑️ Nonesense app
  • 🗑️ Rubbish
  • 🗑️ Crap

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