Buchen vs Klayboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Buchen
Manage your web links with this bookmark organizer. Tag, sort into folders, and add notes to your saved sites. Import/export bookmarks and access them via widgets or share sheets.
- Tagging and folder organization
- Bookmark pinning
- Add notes to bookmarks
- Import/export bookmarks (JSON, HTML)
- Share sheet integration
- QR code generation
- App styling and widgets
- Biometric app lock
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Buchen (pronounced like bookin’) is a simple bookmark manger that allows you to manage your bookmarks for multiple browsers, tags, and folders. Some of the feature of the app include: - Tag your bookmarks with an interface that allows you to easily add new tags and suggest existing ones. - Organise your bookmarks in folders. Folders can have as many sub-folders as you need to organise your bookmarks. - Pin your bookmarks, tags or folders. - Remove common trackers from URLs with one click when adding / editing a bookmark. - Add notes to your bookmarks. - Import / Export bookmarks as JSON or HTML. When the optional fields added date, tags, or notes are available in either import format, Buchen will use those too. - Shortcuts for adding bookmarks or searching bookmarks. - An “Add Bookmark” action for the Share Sheet. This allows you to add bookmarks directly from Safari and other apps. - A variety of keyboard shortcuts for iPad users. - Create QR Codes in a variety of colours for your bookmarks. You can view or share the QR Code from the bookmark detail view or with a left swipe / long-press on a bookmark. - Choose between different bookmark styles. You can choose different styles in the Bookmarks and Tags sections. - When you choose a bookmark style that shows its tags, you can navigate to that tag from any bookmark. - Choose from multiple colors to style the app and widgets. - Select which browser will open your bookmark. Note: Browsers other than Safari are only an option if they’re installed on the device. Read the help for the list of compatible browsers. - Lock Buchen with Face ID / Touch ID / Passcode. Either fully lock it down or enjoy some convenience and allow widgets and shortcuts to show your data. - Search your bookmarks against their name, URL, notes, browser, tags or even creation date (YY-MM-DD format). Buchen also comes with Widgets in all 4 sizes. Medium, Large and Extra Large widgets let you open links from the Widget. Add lock screen widgets for easy access to bookmarks, tags, and folders. Importing bookmarks can use the Buchen JSON format, Firefox JSON backup files or standard bookmark HTML files. Exporting bookmarks can use the Buchen JSON format or the standard bookmark HTML format. Notes from HTML imports require using the Delicious / Pinboard HTML format.
Klayboard
A precision keyboard app offering deterministic typing with no predictive AI or aggressive autocorrect. It provides advanced features like a dedicated number row, word-by-word cursor navigation, and customizable layouts for coding and markdown.
- Deterministic typing with no AI or cloud connection
- Dedicated number row with symbol alternates
- Word-by-word cursor navigation and text editing
- Multiple layouts: Standard, Coding, Markdown
- Smart touch accuracy for fewer missed keys
- Fully customizable keys, height, and feedback
- Text expansion macros
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Klayboard is a precision keyboard built for people who want total control over their typing. No predictive AI. No aggressive autocorrect. No cloud connection. What you press is exactly what appears on the screen — every single time. DETERMINISTIC TYPING Most keyboards fight you. They change words after you type them, insert suggestions you didn't ask for, and send your keystrokes to the cloud. Klay does none of that. Every tap produces exactly one character. You stay in control. DEDICATED NUMBER ROW Access numbers without switching layouts. Klay's 5-row and 6-row modes both include a permanent number row across the top. Every number key has a symbol alternate — swipe down on "1" for "!", on "2" for "@", and so on. WORD-BY-WORD CURSOR NAVIGATION The utility row gives you desktop-class text editing on your phone. Jump the cursor forward or backward by whole words. Delete the previous word or everything to the start of the line. Toggle case between lower, Title, and UPPER. Copy and paste without leaving the keyboard. THREE LAYOUTS, ONE KEYBOARD Standard: Clean QWERTY with a full symbol set available by swipe or long-press on every key. Coding: Braces, brackets, semicolons, slashes, and equals on the primary layer. Tab key included. Built for writing code on mobile. Markdown: One-tap buttons for headings, bold, italic, code blocks, links, lists, and horizontal rules. The cursor auto-positions between delimiters. SMART TOUCH ACCURACY Klayboard uses a geometric probability model to resolve ambiguous taps near key boundaries. It considers finger position, key proximity, and letter-pair frequency — all computed locally, with zero dictionary lookups. The result: fewer missed keys, especially at smaller keyboard sizes. FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE Remap any character key's primary and long-press actions. Adjust keyboard height from 75% to 140%. Choose between 5-row compact and 6-row full modes. Toggle haptic feedback, sound feedback, and key popups independently. Set your preferred long-press duration. TEXT EXPANSION MACROS Create custom trigger-based text macros that expand as you type. Set "@@" to expand into your email address, or "addr" into your full mailing address. Macros fire instantly with zero lag — everything runs locally. BUILT FOR PRIVACY Klay never connects to the internet. Your keystrokes never leave your device. There is no analytics, no telemetry, no usage tracking, and no data collection of any kind. Full Access is requested only for clipboard features (copy/paste) and is entirely optional. ADDITIONAL FEATURES • Swipe down or long-press any key for its alternate character • Double-space automatically inserts a period and shifts for the next sentence • Hold delete to accelerate — first by character, then by whole word • Swipe up from the spacebar to dismiss the keyboard • Shift cycles through off → shifted → caps lock • Symbols layout with every special character you need • Dark mode and light mode with automatic switching Klay is for developers, writers, power users, and anyone tired of fighting their keyboard. It does exactly what you tell it to — nothing more, nothing less.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Buchen at Free against Klayboard's $3.99. Buchen also leads on ratings volume (16 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). Klayboard's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On rating, 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
Buchen is free to download; Klayboard costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Buchen against 4.0 for Klayboard. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Buchen has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Buchen ships an update every 2 months, Klayboard every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Buchen | Klayboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.1 (16 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | William Baer | Zhi Zheng Yeo |
In-app purchases
Buchen
No in-app purchases
Klayboard
No in-app purchases









