Keyman User Reviews

Keyman
Keyman
Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc (SIL)

Customer Experience

Positive experience50.0% of reviews
Neutral8.6% of reviews
Negative experience41.4% of reviews

~ Based on 58 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Keyman Safe?

Keyman appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Keyman is 76/100.

This assessment is based on 69 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.9/5.

Safety Analysis

69.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
8.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
21.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 69 App Store ratings for Keyman.

Is Keyman Legit?

Keyman appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Keyman is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Frequent and Seemingly Random Crashes

This keyboard has been very helpful to me for custom glyphs and layouts with more symbol acceesibility than the default iOS keyboard, but it's been severely lacking. For one, it seems to be poorly maintained; I don't even know if it is at all.

It doesn't make any attempt to integrate with the design language of iOS, which is unfortunate and disapoointing—there aren't even any in-built appearance options either, so you're stuck with the default.

The biggest issue has been when the keyboard crashes, mandating a phone restart for it to function again. Previously, it only happened if I turned off the screen while the keyboard was in-use, but now, it happens at random whether or not the keyboard is active after locking the phone.

It's highly frustrating and makes this keyboard unusable, despite its advantages over less trustworthy options (like Google's Gboard or Microsoft's SwiftBoard) that I've considered. It's even more annoying considering that with this keyboard non-functional, I don't have any one size fits all solution to my keyboard needs.

Fix this keyboard, please. It's genuinely one of the best I know in terms of layouts, and it deserves more than to become a bug-riddled mess.
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Why did nobody rate since April 17th, 2025?

Idk why nobody rated since April 17th, 2025. 🥀

Works great

Works flawlessly for Ancient Greek with the keyboard "Polytonic Greek (SIL)"

pretty cool

Pretty decent keyboard except if you leave it open for too long the entire keyboard goes blank and and i have to delete. reinstall, re add multiple times for it to work and this is everytime. very annoying, so hopefully it’ll be fixed

Doesn’t work right

Only works in some apps. Basically useless. It doesn’t even work in the notes app

Not working physical keyboard

Am using Modular Tamil in my iphone. It’s only screen typing. Not working physical keyboard. Please improve

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Global Keyboard no show - UPDATE (FIXED)

Deleted and reinstalled Keyman, then re-installed my beloved Yoruba keyboards‼️

App needs to come with instructions

Couldn't figure out how to use unicodes to make a keyboard. Would it hurt to include ANYTHING about how to actually use the app?

Does not work with Apple Smart Keyboard

Does not work with Apple Smart Keyboard

Thank you guys

Thank you for supporting the traditional Mongolian and phags-pa .

Not working with new Magic Keyboard

Dear Keyman, Thanks for the app. I just got the new iPad Pro 2024, along with the new Magic Keyboard. The Keyman English - EuroLatin (SIL) keyboard doesn't work with the new Magic Keyboard for some reason. However, the Keyman keyboard does work with the in-screen keyboard. Could you please fix the app so that it works with the latest Magic Keyboard? Once you do that, I will be happy to give you five stars! Thanks!
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Misleading

I downloaded this because I wanted to make a keyboard for my conlang and I had looked online and it said that the mobile was about to create custom keyboards. But the cant make custom keyboards and if it can it isnt very clear. And actually most things about the app aren’t very clear and aren’t explained properly
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Requires full access

Without full access, just got a white box in place of the keyboard. Even if I allow full access once, and then disallow it, the keyboard breaks immediately

need a help

how install the keyboard that you uploaded on the main page of app at the appstore with muslim
hieroglyphs ? Если кто знает, помогите. Очень нужно название клавиатуры, которое приложено здесь к приложению. Написать можно в тг: famgfft

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The app is cool and all with the Ancient Filipino Scripts but here’s the thing,
1 The Baybayin script keyboard itself
The weird things is I can’t backspace the Pamudpod symbol and I can’t type the symbol “Ra”
2 The keyboard won’t load for me on the keyboard itself

full access demanded

no matter what i do demands full access to work on ipad. followed all instructions to activate. keyboard disappears as soon as i turn off full access. frustrating.

So far so good

The app itself is pretty simple to use. I do have an issue with the Shavian keyboard that I wish they'd correct. The placement doesn't quite make sense. If I want to make the EE sound, I have to long-press F. Why is it under F? It would make sense to have multiple options under a relevant letter, or to have all the variants of one symbol with that same symbol. Right now, it's trial and error if the letter I need is not one of the main ones on display. Edit: I had to change my rating because of the update. I listen to YouTube all day at work and it uses 28% of my battery. Using this keyboard for literally one minute used 20% battery and my phone got hot. Can't use it like that!
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Great app

Only complaint per se would be that it’s categorised under social networking, rather than under utilities where it really should be.

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This is a great app of course there is room for improvement and is there any way I can add a script on there myself or?