File Manager vs Black Keyboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
File Manager
Securely store and manage your private photos, videos, music, and documents with passcode or biometric protection. Organize files with custom folders, sorting, and filters. Access files from various sources and enjoy background media playback.
- Passcode and Face ID/Touch ID lock
- Folder-specific passcodes
- Customizable folder appearance
- File organization and sorting
- Import from Photos, camera, music library
- Built-in browser with downloads
- Background media playback
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File Manager keeps your private photos, videos, music and documents in one place, behind a passcode or Face ID, with no ads. Your files stay on your device, inside the app. • Passcode lock: 4 or 6 digits, a custom number or letters, with Face ID or Touch ID. The app locks again every time you leave it, and after 10 wrong passcodes it stays locked for a while. • A passcode for any folder, with a security question in case you forget it. • Folders in your own colors, grid or list, sorting and filters, hidden files and folders. • Move, copy, rename, share, unzip, select many items at once, copy and paste with the clipboard. • Add files from Photos, the camera (photos and videos), your music library, other apps ("Open in…") and the built-in browser with downloads, bookmarks and history. • View photos, play videos, listen to music in the background with shuffle, repeat and a mini player, and open PDFs and office documents. • Recent files, and a Trash that keeps deleted items for 30 days. • Light, dark or automatic appearance, on iPhone and iPad. No ads, no in-app purchases.
Black Keyboard
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Black Keyboard is a pure black replacement for the iOS keyboard. Not a theme, not a skin over the system keyboard. Same layout, same behavior as the keyboard already on your phone, with true black keys instead of Apple's grey, and an optional bold weight for even more contrast. White on true black is the most contrast a screen can render. There's also a large setting that grows the letters to fill each key, for when the standard size is smaller than you want to read. NO NETWORK The app does not and cannot access the network. It never asks for Full Access, the permission a keyboard would need before it could send anything anywhere. The only thing Black Keyboard remembers is a short list of words you've told it to stop correcting. It stays on your device, and the app has a button to clear it. No accounts. No ads. No analytics. No in-app purchases. FREE Black Keyboard is free, and this is the whole app. There's no trial, no paywall and nothing to unlock. OUR OWN AUTOCORRECT AND SWIPE-TO-TYPE Apple doesn't make its own autocorrect or gesture-typing engines available to any third-party keyboard. Not this one, not any other. So we built both ourselves: autocorrect that backs off the moment you reject a suggestion and stays out of your way on that word from then on, and swipe-to-type for gliding between letters instead of tapping each one. Either can be switched off on its own if you'd rather type the plain way. TRUE BLACK, NOT DARK GREY Apple's dark keyboard is a dark grey backdrop with lighter grey keys. Black Keyboard's backdrop is true black, with near-black keycaps and white letters. On an OLED iPhone, true black pixels are switched off entirely, so the keyboard draws less power and throws no glow in a dark room. SET UP IN UNDER A MINUTE Install it like any keyboard: Settings → General → Keyboard → Keyboards → Add New Keyboard, then choose Black Keyboard and switch to it with the globe key. Bold or regular, normal or large, and that is all there is to set. Built for iPhone and iPad, iOS 16 and later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Black Keyboard at Free against File Manager's $3.99. On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Black Keyboard is free to download; File Manager costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | File Manager | Black Keyboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (22 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Binh Tran | The Trade Script, LLC |
In-app purchases
File Manager
No in-app purchases
Black Keyboard
No in-app purchases
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