Comparison

Swipe Keyboard Simple vs aBop

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Swipe Keyboard Simple

Discover a new way to write with intuitive gesture controls for your keyboard. This app offers a futuristic typing experience that integrates seamlessly with all your other applications.

Highlights
  • Gesture control for typing
  • Integrates with all apps
  • Futuristic writing experience
  • Customizable keyboard
Features
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Try the keyboard of the future. Discover a new way of writing! Use gestures to control your keyboard! You can use the keyboard with all apps! Try this app and you won’t be able do without it!

About

aBop

Enhance your messaging experience with interactive games, challenges, and timed reveals. Send reminders, surprise friends with hidden content, or compete in drawing and battle games directly within your conversations.

Highlights
  • Send timed surprises with hidden content
  • Schedule and send reminders with acknowledgments
  • Challenge friends to drawing competitions
  • Engage in turn-based battles within messages
  • Create personalized messages with photos and text
  • Utilize AI for image creation and drawing judging
Features
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Make Messages more fun with aBop—games, challenges, reminders, and surprises designed to be sent, opened, and enjoyed right inside your conversations. Send a Nudge so someone doesn't forget. Hide a Surprise until the perfect moment. Challenge your friends to a Draw-off. Or battle it out in Crossfire. With aBop, an ordinary message becomes something you can actually interact with together. NUDGE Reminders don't have to feel like reminders. • Send a Nudge now and get a “Got It” acknowledgement • Schedule a Nudge for a specific date and time • Send normal or important reminders • Let the recipient review and accept scheduled reminders • See when a scheduled Nudge has been accepted • Manage pending Nudges you no longer need Important Nudges can use enhanced alarm-style experiences on supported devices. When unavailable, they can still be accepted as normal notifications. SURPRISE Make them wait for it. Create a timed reveal for birthdays, announcements, inside jokes, encouragement—or anything worth waiting for. Choose a cover, hide text, a photo, or both behind it, and choose when your Surprise unlocks. Until then, what's inside stays hidden. When the moment arrives, your friend can tap to reveal it. On supported devices, aBop can also help create images using Apple Intelligence. DRAW Think you can draw? Prove it. Pick a category and challenge, set the timer, and invite your conversation. Go head-to-head or turn a group chat into a Draw-off with up to 8 players while everyone else watches the results. • Fun challenges across multiple categories • Fast timed rounds • One Stroke challenges • Four drawing colors • Head-to-head and group competitions • On-device judging • Winner highlights and result cards • Shareable masterpieces—and wonderfully questionable doodles When everyone’s finished drawing, AI takes over as judge—comparing the entries, picking a winner, and delivering playful commentary on the results. CROSSFIRE BLAST 2 Players. 4 Players. Total Chaos. Aim. Slide. Fire. Challenge a friend to a strategic 1-on-1 battle or turn your group chat into an addictive 4-player showdown! Crossfire Blast automatically adapts to your iMessage conversation: • 1:1 Chat: Battle head-to-head. • Group Chat (4+ people): 4-player mode automatically enabled. No setup required! • More than 4 friends? Others can spectate and jump into the next round. Outsmart your opponents, block their moves, and turn the tables when they least expect it. Every move counts! All the action happens right inside iMessage. Make your move, send it back, and keep the battle going! BUILT FOR MESSAGES No separate social network. No rooms to create. No complicated setup. Open aBop from Messages, choose what you want to send, and start playing, nudging, surprising, or creating with the people already in your conversations. Whether you're reminding someone about something important, building anticipation for a reveal, deciding who can draw the best cat in 30 seconds, or battling a friend in Crossfire, aBop gives you more ways to interact in Messages. Make Messages more fun. Send an aBop. Some features require notification permission. Alarm-style reminders and Apple Intelligence features depend on compatible hardware, operating-system version, language, region, and system availability. Recipients need aBop installed to open and interact with aBop messages.

Screenshots

Swipe Keyboard Simple3 screens
aBop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: aBop at 5.0 against Swipe Keyboard Simple's 1.6. aBop also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 17 months). Swipe Keyboard Simple's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. aBop sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Swipe Keyboard Simple asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

aBop holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Swipe Keyboard Simple ships an update every 17 months, aBop weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Swipe Keyboard Simple versus aBop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSwipe Keyboard SimpleaBop
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.6 (11 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 17 monthsWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGiacomo GuglielmiHot Potato

Customer experience

Swipe Keyboard Simple

All ratings11 ratings
Positive9.1%
Neutral9.1%
Negative81.8%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral4.2%
Negative95.8%

aBop

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Swipe Keyboard Simple

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

aBop

One-time5
  • 100 DRAW Pack$0.99
  • 4 Person Crossfire Blast$1.99
  • 300 DRAW PACK$1.99
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  • 500 DRAW PACK$2.99
  • 1000 DRAW Pack$4.99

Questions

Is Swipe Keyboard Simple free?
Swipe Keyboard Simple is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is aBop free?
aBop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Swipe Keyboard Simple or aBop?
aBop is rated higher. Swipe Keyboard Simple averages 1.6 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while aBop averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Swipe Keyboard Simple or aBop have ads?
Swipe Keyboard Simple shows ads; aBop does not.
Which is updated more often, Swipe Keyboard Simple or aBop?
Swipe Keyboard Simple ships an update every 17 months, and aBop weekly. Most recently, Swipe Keyboard Simple was updated on November 2, 2026 and aBop on October 31, 2026.

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