Esperanto keyboard vs ShavKey
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Esperanto keyboard
This utility app provides a specialized keyboard for typing in Esperanto. It offers predictive text, swipe typing, and auto-correction to enhance typing speed and accuracy for Esperanto users.
- Predictive text for Esperanto
- Swipe typing support
- Auto-correction
- Dedicated Esperanto sign button
- Familiar keyboard layout
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Esperanta klavaro subteno antaŭdiri, swipe tajpadon kaj auto korekto Klavararanĝo estas sama kiel sistemo klavaro, sed havas Esperanton signo butonon kaj datumoj helpi vin tajpi pli rapide. --English-- Esperanto keyboard support predict, swipe typing and auto correction Keyboard layout is same as system keyboard, but have Esperanto sign button and data help you type faster.
ShavKey
This keyboard app provides quick access to all 48 Shavian characters without requiring shifts. It includes an always-on number row that can be configured for Base 12 input.
- All 48 Shavian characters accessible
- No shift key required
- Always-on number row
- Optional Base 12 number input
- Optimized for single-stroke input
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The Shavian Keyboard for iOS. It features all 48 characters without needing to shift, in keeping with the idea that each character can be written with one stroke, we don't think it should take more than one key press. There is also an always on number row along the top which can be set to use Base 12 if you are so inclined.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ShavKey at 100% against Esperanto keyboard's 23%. ShavKey also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Esperanto keyboard's advantage is ratings volume (61 vs 10) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Esperanto keyboard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ShavKey asks for nothing beyond the download.
ShavKey holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Esperanto keyboard has 61 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 23% of Esperanto keyboard's written reviews are positive against 100% of ShavKey's.
| Parameter | Esperanto keyboard | ShavKey |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (61 ratings) | 4.6 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 61 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LE SANG | Joshua Lancaster |
Customer experience
Esperanto keyboard
ShavKey
Bugs and requests
Esperanto keyboard
Reported bugs
56 issues- Keyboard enlarges offscreen, becoming unusable
- Keyboard increases in size, only showing a few letters
- Word typed is replaced by another word upon pressing space
- Dictionary lacks many forms of plural, accusative, and genitive
- Keyboard freezes or gets stuck in the top left corner
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- Keyboard zooms in, making it unusable
- Autocorrect is terrible and strikes randomly
- Keyboard does not size correctly to the screen
- Skips letters unpredictably
- Randomly capitalizes the first few letters of a sentence
- Does not switch from default to Esperanto keyboard with reliability
- Keyboard randomly zooms in
- Word endings (past, future, etc. tenses) are not recognized by autocorrect
- Some prepositions are not recognized by autocorrect
- The app is partially in Esperanto and partially in English
- Glitches when using the search bar from the home screen
- Glitches when switching between keyboards
- Swipe feature is useless
- Capitalization gets stuck and caps letters
- Punctuation mark is snapped to the last letter
- Sometimes freezes and doesn’t sense taps
- Locks up when typing fast, still clicks but doesn’t type
- Keyboard skips letters
- Keyboard randomly capitalizes the first 3 letters of a sentence
- Sudden auto correct with no warning
- Keyboard constantly glitches where it becomes large
- Makes user force quit whatever app they were in
- Incredibly frustrating to try and use the special ĝ ĉ keys
- Keyboard stops functioning or completely disappears if app is exited while keyboard is active
- Phone must be powered off to get it back
- Long press a letter that is supposed to be hatted, the hatted letter won't show up
- Keyboard disappears and reappears without warning
- Causes all other keyboards to glitch
- Gboard (Google's keyboard) would flicker and reset to the default iOS keyboard
- Keys get really big to the point of 2 or 3 keys taking up the entire keyboard
- Unable to exit the large keyboard
- Some keys lag a bit when typing quickly
- Long-pressing on individual keys to bring up the “pop-up menu of related letters with different accent marks” only works about half the time
- Period key doesn’t actually work if pressed to insert a period
- Causes the keyboard to freeze up and stop working all together
- Swipe keyboard doesn’t work well with user defined words
- Vicious bug: switching between input methods twice makes the input method unusable
- Uncontrollable swipe feature is a problem for accuracy
- Layout is difficult and leads to many mistakes
- Can barely type without making a ton of mistakes
- The keys are too small or don't work when pressed
- Auto correct doesn't recognize basic words like Ĉu
- The keyboard looks a bit funny and small
- The actual keyboard is not that good
- It doesn’t have any present tense or past tense, just the infinitives
- The app opens and then immediately crashes on iPhone
- It is not a keyboard. At least on IOS 13, it only shows ads, cannot be made a keyboard on system level
- Most words aren’t detected when swiping
- It glitches when I want to post a tweet
- Hard to type with. Skips letters and spaces, lots of unintentional key presses
- Tapping the “A” button does not provide a preview / feedback of showing the key was tapped
Requested features
28 requests- Add missing plural, accusative, and genitive forms to dictionary
- Fix keyboard enlargement issue
- Improve integration with other apps
- Resolve bug where words are replaced
- Add Kurdish keyboard
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- Improve autocorrect dictionary
- Add option to turn off keyboard clicks/sounds
- Update GUI to be smoother
- Add voice recognition
- Make keyboard look like other iOS keyboards
- Improve swipe typing for user-defined words
- Remove letters not used in Esperanto (q, w, x, y)
- Fix issue with long-pressing keys
- Fix period key functionality
- Fix keyboard freezing
- Fix issue with punctuation snapping to last letter
- Fix capitalization issues
- Fix issue with typing fast
- Add option to turn off auto-capitalization
- Add option to switch to night mode
- Improve dictionary for word conjugations and forms
- Improve swipe typing for user-defined words
- Add option to turn off predictive text and autocorrect
- Improve sensitivity of touch for accented consonants
- Fix lag when typing quickly
- Add option to turn off click sound
- Add option to turn off auto-complete dictionary
- Add option to turn off automatic switch to uppercase
ShavKey
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Esperanto keyboard
- All color themes$0.99
ShavKey
No in-app purchases
Questions
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