App Shortcut vs KeyLink
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
App Shortcut
Create custom widgets for quick app launching. Easily find and add your favorite applications to your home screen for instant access. Streamline your mobile experience with personalized shortcuts.
- Create custom widgets
- Quickly launch favorite apps
- Search and add applications
- Personalized shortcuts
- Home screen integration
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App Shortcut enables you to create beautiful widgets to quickly launch your favourite apps. Just search the app you want to add, try it, and create a new shortcut for it in few seconds.
KeyLink
This custom keyboard allows you to store and quickly access frequently used links and text snippets. Save time by replying and applying to content within any app with a single click, eliminating the need for constant copy-pasting.
- Custom keyboard for quick access
- Store and share common links
- Store and share common text snippets
- One-click sharing
- Share extension for saving links
- Folders and analytics (Pro feature)
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KeyLink is a custom keyboard that enables you to easily store, access, and share common links and text, such as your website, product and affiliate links, social media accounts, common responses to FAQs, taglines, and more. Download today and reply and apply within any app 23 times faster all with just 1 click of your custom keyboard! No more endless copy and paste! Responding to clients, prospects, investors, etc. is time consuming, but delaying a response is costly. With KeyLink you can quickly and easily add taglines, marketing messages, product or job descriptions, and other commonly shared information! Share sentences and paragraphs with just 1 click, no more copying and pasting dozens of messages from notes or docs! Efficiently reply to emails, texts, social media posts, direct messages, with your custom KeyLink keyboard! Get an edge on the competition by completing job applications, school applications, grant applications, investment applications, and more an average of over 70% faster! Great time saver for: - Startup founders - Business owners - Affiliate marketers - Freelancers - Influencers - Job applicants - School applicants - Grant applicants - And more Now with KeyLink’s share extension, allowing you to instantly save a link to KeyLink with any app’s share function and also allowing you to highlight text to directly save it as a Key within KeyLink. You can then share stored links & text with just 1 click of your keyboard directly within any app. KeyLink: Unlock efficiency. KeyLink Pro: unlock additional features including folders and analytics. The app is compatible with any app including all popular messaging apps, social media, email apps, browsers, office apps and more, including WhatsApp, iMessage, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Snapchat, gmail, Chrome, Google Workspace, etc. Store and share any link. Some examples include: - Personal social media accounts - Business social media accounts - Blogs - Promo links - Affiliate links - Product pages - Personal website - Business website - Shared documents Tems of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: KeyLink at 5.0 against App Shortcut's 3.8. KeyLink also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 7 months). App Shortcut's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
KeyLink holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 37 and 20 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
App Shortcut ships an update every 7 months, KeyLink weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | App Shortcut | KeyLink |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (37 ratings) | 5.0 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 37 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Burak Uzunboy | MotivateU, INC |
Customer experience
App Shortcut
KeyLink
In-app purchases
App Shortcut
No in-app purchases
KeyLink
No in-app purchases
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