Transboard vs Slyder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Transboard
This keyboard app allows real-time translation as you type, seamlessly converting your input from one language to another. It integrates with Google Translate for broad language support and offers a professional typing experience with features like predictive text and swipe input.
- Real-time translation keyboard
- Type in one language, get another
- Supports 40+ keyboard languages
- Supports 90+ translation languages
- Predictive text and swipe input
- Professional keyboard by Path Input
- Powered by Google Translate API
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- A real time translation keyboard - Type one language, get another - A must for chatting to foreigners Transboard is a combination of keyboard and translation. It makes you type one language, for example, English, but directly get another language, for example, French. Unlike the other translation apps, in Transboard, the process of translation is completed with the text input. You don’t need leave current app. Its main features are: ● Professional Keyboard - Path Input The keyboard part of Transboard is provided by Path Input which is a professional keyboard vendor. The keyboard supports about 40 languages, various layouts, predictive words, user words, emoji and swipe input. It definitely gives you a wonderful input experience. The above 40 languages are Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hinglish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Zulu. ● Professional Translation - Google Translate The translation part of Transboard is provided by Google Translate API which is the best machine translation in the world. Now it supports more than 90 languages. When you input text, the Transboard automatically sends your text to Google Translate API and return the translation result for you. Just one click can complete the foreign language input. The 90 languages can be translated by Google are Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sesotho, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, Yoruba and Zulu. Don't hesitate, just download it and have a try! ^_^
Slyder
Enhance your typing experience with a customizable keyboard offering extensive gesture controls for navigation, deletion, and text manipulation. It supports multiple languages and offers personalized themes and feedback options.
- Extensive gesture controls
- Multi-language support
- Customizable themes
- Emoji recommendations
- Copy/paste history
- Adjustable keyboard height
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Slyder is a lightweight keyboard built around gestures — slide anywhere to move the cursor, drag the delete key to erase and undo, and keep the tools you actually use one tap above the keys. TYPE IN 38 LANGUAGES Japanese かな 12-key flick and ローマ字 with kana→kanji conversion. Chinese 简体拼音 and 注音. Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu with full right-to-left layouts. Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Greek, Korean, English and many more — every one with the same gestures. GESTURES THAT SAVE TAPS - Slide anywhere on the keys to move the cursor, letter by letter - Drag the space bar to move word by word - Drag delete left to erase, right to bring it back - Swipe down to dismiss, swipe up for the number row MAKE IT YOURS - Themes matched to your iPhone color, or a gradient you build yourself - Choose the font your keys are drawn in - An extra row of favorites — buttons, phrases, links, folders - Adjustable keyboard height TOOLS BUILT IN - Clipboard history and a one-tap paste button - Emoji and emoticon suggestions that learn as you type - Cool Fonts and Fun Text - Generative AI with web search - Insights into how you type iCLOUD BACKUP Settings, folders, colors, clipboard, emoji and stats back up to your own iCloud and restore onto a new iPhone in one tap. ON iPAD A native iPad layout with a full number row and Apple-parity key sizing. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Slyder at 4.5 against Transboard's 3.6. Slyder also leads on ratings volume (1.6K vs 22) and review sentiment (69% vs 46%). Transboard's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Transboard sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Slyder sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Slyder holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Slyder has 1.6K ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Transboard's written reviews are positive against 69% of Slyder's.
Transboard ships an update every 11 days, Slyder every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Transboard | Slyder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (22 ratings) | 4.5 (1.6K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.2% of reviews | 68.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22 | 1.6K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 106 MB | 196 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 继航 陈 | Chiho Chun |
Customer experience
Transboard
Slyder
Bugs and requests
Transboard
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Slyder
Reported bugs
4 issues- Keyboard sometimes switches to default iOS keyboard unexpectedly
- Haptic feedback issues, sometimes stops working
- Keyboard not working properly in certain apps like Chrome and Safari
- Issues with the keyboard when using the emoji/special character section
Requested features
5 requests- Add autocorrect and text prediction features
- Allow customizing the favorite bar when switching keyboard layers
- Add support for more languages like Japanese, Chinese, and Urdu
- Improve stability and reduce bugs
- Allow disabling the full access permission request
In-app purchases
Transboard
- service of 20000 characters$0.99
- service of 50000 characters$1.99
- service of 90000 characters$2.99
Slyder
- Plus$0.991 Month
- Premium$3.997 Days
- Plus$7.991 Year
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- Premium$9.991 Month
- Premium$59.991 Year
- Support $0.99$0.99
- Support $1.99$1.99
- Support $2.99$2.99
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- Support $4.99$4.99
- Support $9.99$9.99
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