Comparison

ipIqaD vs Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos

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

Head to head
About

ipIqaD

This utility installs a custom keyboard extension for iOS devices, allowing users to input Klingon pIqaD characters. It utilizes the encoding registered in the Conscript Unicode Registry for accurate character representation.

Highlights
  • Custom keyboard extension
  • Klingon pIqaD input
  • Conscript Unicode Registry encoding
  • iOS device support
Features
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ipIqaD installs a custom keyboard extension that enables Klingon pIqaD input using the encoding registered in the Conscript Unicode Registry.

About

Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos

This keyboard app allows users to easily type polytonic Greek with all classical diacritics. It offers two typing methods, a spacebar trackpad for cursor control, and access to archaic letters. An optional Pro upgrade provides auto-correct, typeahead suggestions, and style preferences.

Highlights
  • Full range of classical and historical diacritics
  • Two intuitive typing methods
  • Spacebar trackpad for cursor navigation
  • Access to archaic Greek letters
  • NFC Unicode output
  • Optional Pro upgrade for advanced features
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No more copying and pasting complicated diacritics from a website! Tonos is a polytonic Greek keyboard for iPhone and iPad. Tonos is now part of the Open Greek organization. All proceeds support the Open Greek Corpus project, which is bringing state-of-the-art optical character recognition (OCR) to more public-domain Ancient Greek texts. Designed for students, scholars, and anyone writing polytonic Greek, Tonos supports the full range of classical and historical diacritics across Classical, Koine, Byzantine, Katharevousa, and polytonic Modern Greek. All ten classical marks. Smooth and rough breathings, acute, grave, and circumflex accents, iota subscript, diaeresis, macron, breve, and the philologist's underdot. Combine them freely. Mutually exclusive marks, like acute and grave, or macron and breve, never fight each other. Two ways to type. Enter a vowel first and decorate it with one tap, or queue up the diacritics you want and apply them all to the next vowel. Whichever mental model you prefer, Tonos follows along. Spacebar trackpad. Drag across the spacebar to slide the cursor through your text, one character at a time. Fast drags accelerate, so you can cover distance without leaving Tonos to adjust the cursor. Three layers, one keyboard. • Letters uses the common Greek keyboard layout. • Numbers holds digits and punctuation, including ano teleia. • Archaic holds rare letters from languages that use the Greek alphabet: digamma, stigma, archaic koppa, koppa, sampi, san, heta, yot, sho, the kai ligature, and the Pamphylian digamma. Plus cursive and lunate letterforms for manuscripts and papyrology. NFC Unicode output. Canonically precomposed where Unicode provides a precomposed form. Letters with stacked breathings, accents, and iota subscript drop cleanly into any app, document, or database. No legacy codepoints, no lookup tables, no surprises for your downstream tools. Nomina Sacra. Insert eight two-letter manuscript contractions with a continuous overbar, including ΘϹ (God), ΙϹ (Jesus), and ΧϹ (Christ). One backspace removes a whole contraction. Uncial mode preserves the overbar. Available with Tonos Pro. Tonos Pro. An optional one-time upgrade unlocks the nomina sacra key and three on-device polytonic assists. Auto-correct silently fixes missing or wrong diacritics when you hit space, return, or a punctuation key, drawing on a 1.3-million-entry polytonic dictionary merged from Classical, Koine, Byzantine, and Katharevousa corpora. Typeahead adds a suggestion bar with spell-check corrections for misspelled words, mid-word completions, and next-word predictions, powered by a language model trained on ~30 million polytonic tokens. Style Preferences lets you tune the editorial rules: enclitic-aware grave rule, iota subscript vs adscript, movable nu, elision, plus a three-way picker for the elision glyph (Combined, Koronis, or Apostrophe). No network access. The keyboard is complete on its own, and your Pro unlock is a single non-consumable purchase that restores on any device signed in to your Apple Account. A quick setup note. Enable Tonos under Settings → General → Keyboard → Keyboards → Add New Keyboard, then tap the globe key on any keyboard to switch to it. Any apps that were already open before you enabled Tonos may need to be closed and reopened before the keyboard becomes available in them. This is an iOS behavior, not specific to Tonos.

Screenshots

ipIqaD1 screens
Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos at 100% against ipIqaD's 43%. Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.4) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 months). ipIqaD's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ipIqaD asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of ipIqaD's written reviews are positive against 100% of Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ipIqaD ships an update every 4 months, Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
ipIqaD versus Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteripIqaDGreek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (8 ratings)4.8 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniel DadapMotomatic LLC

Customer experience

ipIqaD

All ratings6 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive42.9%
Neutral14.3%
Negative42.9%

Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ipIqaD

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos

One-time1
  • Tonos Pro$19.99

Questions

Is ipIqaD free?
ipIqaD is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos free?
Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ipIqaD or Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos?
Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos is rated higher. ipIqaD averages 3.4 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos averages 4.8 from 6 ratings.
Do ipIqaD or Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos have ads?
Neither ipIqaD nor Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ipIqaD or Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos?
ipIqaD ships an update every 4 months, and Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos every 2 days. Most recently, ipIqaD was updated on November 6, 2026 and Greek Polytonic Keyboard Tonos on November 12, 2026.

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