MyKeyboard Legacy vs keyboard2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MyKeyboard Legacy
Design your own mobile keyboard with custom layouts, fonts, and themes. Add or remove keys, assign custom actions, and personalize emoji rows for a unique typing experience.
- Drag-and-drop keyboard builder
- Customizable key layouts and rows
- Switchable fonts across apps
- Personalized emoji rows
- Custom key actions (copy, paste, etc.)
- Theme customization
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Customize virtually anything about your iOS keyboard, with simple drag and drop. Add or remove keys or rows, customize the way keys look and behave, change the duration until subkeys (the keys that pop up when holding on a key) pop up, add and remove subkeys and add keys with custom actions. MyKeyboard is beloved by its users for its ease of use and endless possibilities. For example, the emoji row is a standard feature of the custom Keyboard and can be changed to contain all of your favorite emoji. These emoji keys then automatically contain subkeys with similar emoji which you can personalize. By default, a number row is also in the keyboard, providing you fast access to these often-used keys. Another amazing feature of MyKeyboard is the switchable fonts. MyKeyboard contains 19 amazing fonts that can be used across almost all apps, including WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and iMessage. You can add a font key to your keyboard and switch to the font by tapping on it. Custom key actions include: - Insert Appearance - Insert - Replace Word With Appearance - Show Subkeys - Shift - Caps Lock - Cut - Copy - Paste - Accept Correction - Dismiss Correction - Learn Current Word - Switch Keyboard - Switch To Main Keyboard - Hide Keyboard - Next Input Mode - Delete Last Character - Activate Deletion Mode - Clear - Clear Left - Clear Left Word - Clear Right - Clear Right Word - Clear Word - Switch to Emoji Board (Switches you to the emoji keyboard; Learn more about this when you google emoji keyboard) These actions can be triggered on tap and hold. When no hold action is set for a specific key, the keyboard goes into trackpad mode, allowing you to shift the insertion point around by swiping. The deletion mode is similar and allows you to delete by swiping left and retract from it by swiping right. By default, it is the hold/press action on the delete key. You can also increase or decrease the key hold time until these actions are triggered, but you will have to perform swift key gestures when setting it very low. ~~ Keyboard Builder ~~ Use the keyboard builder for creating a fully customized keyboard layout in less than a minute. Your own keyboard layout is called “My Keyboard” and can be configured in every imaginable way. You can even add a copy, cut or paste key, a font key, an emoji key, a move cursor key, a “delete all” key and so much more. You can also create your own keys, for example for inserting copypasta or using copy/paste keys to perform these actions faster. We have made keyboard customization very accessible and it's easily doable for everyone. And it is customizable in every extend. For example, by adding a lot of g keys to a keyboard you could essentially create your own g board, or by adding multiple font switching keys to one, you can create your own font keyboard. ~~ Themes ~~ You can choose from a variety of free and paid themes, or go ahead and create your own customized keyboard theme. Theme customization can be used to change every aspect of your keyboard: background and foreground colors, shadow and border sizes and their colors, key corner radius and you can even set a custom height for your keys! Even a custom keyboard background image is configurable with your own photo. In the section “my themes”, you can see and manage all of your customized themes. Themes can even be shared with your friends who also use MyKeyboard!
keyboard2
A smart, private keyboard for iPhone offering advanced autocorrect, swipe typing, and predictions in over 70 languages. It prioritizes user privacy by processing all data on-device, ensuring nothing is sent online. Customize layouts, themes, and fonts to personalize your typing experience.
- On-device autocorrect and predictions
- Swipe typing with learned gestures
- 70+ language support
- Customizable layouts and themes
- Clipboard history
- Smart wheel for tools and language switching
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keyboard2 is a smart, private keyboard for iPhone. Autocorrect that fixes what you meant, swipe typing, predictions in 70+ languages and tools under your thumb. The keyboard uses no internet at all, so nothing you type ever leaves your device. TYPE SMARTER - Predictions, autocorrect and autocomplete in 70+ languages: 13 built in, the rest download once when you add them - Arabic typed right to left, or in Latin letters ("mar7aba" becomes مرحبا) - Autocorrect that fixes swapped, missing and extra letters, and puts back missing accents and apostrophes - Swipe typing with an on-device model that learns how you swipe - Write in two languages at once: keyboard2 follows you word by word - Suggestions that read the whole sentence, not just the last word - Learns your words on your device, and one backspace undoes a fix and teaches it - Learns where you tap each key and moves the key borders to match - Fixes capitalization, including German nouns - Smart punctuation that follows your language: quotes, ¿ ¡, French spacing - Emoji suggestions while you type TOOLS UNDER YOUR THUMB - Smart wheel: swipe up from the space bar to switch language or reach any tool - Clipboard history with text and images, as a list or a grid - Toolbar with cut, copy, paste, clipboard and emoji, one swipe from the suggestions - Text replacements, including the shortcuts you set up in iOS - Hold the space bar to move the cursor like a trackpad, flick to jump a sentence - Swipe left from delete to remove whole words - Paste a copied one-time code with one tap - Layouts that fit the field: number pads, email and web address keys - Emoji search in 70 languages that forgives typos PRIVACY FIRST - The keyboard never connects to the internet. Everything you type stays on your device - Extra languages come from Apple's App Store. Nothing of yours is sent - No tracking, no data collection MAKE IT YOURS - 50+ keyboard layouts in Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Georgian, Armenian and Arabic script, or build your own - Your own font, size and weight for every part of the keyboard - Set key height, key gaps and the suggestion bar's height - 100+ themes in the app, or build your own and share it - The app and the keyboard in 40+ languages - A split keyboard on the unfolded iPhone Duo, held sideways KEEP YOUR SETUP - Save your settings and themes to a file you choose, and put them back on a new phone - Optional automatic backups to a folder you pick. It never comes to us - Settings only. Never the words the keyboard learned, your clipboard or your emoji history PREDICTION LANGUAGES (70+) English (US, UK, Australia, Canada), Estonian, German, Finnish, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Romanian, Hungarian, French, Italian, Afrikaans, Breton, Bosnian, Catalan, Czech, Esperanto, Basque, Galician, Indonesian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Tagalog, Turkish, Vietnamese, Russian, Ukrainian, Danish, Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian (Latin and Cyrillic), Norwegian Nynorsk, Greek, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Armenian, Kazakh, Belarusian, Welsh, Uzbek, Swahili, Hinglish, Irish, Maltese, Faroese, Luxembourgish, Turkmen, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Hausa, Igbo, Māori, Tongan, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Mongolian, Roman Urdu, Roman Telugu, Navajo, Arabic, Malay (Jawi) FREE AND PREMIUM keyboard2 is free to download, and everything is unlocked for your first hour of typing. After that, basic typing stays free forever; premium features (predictions, swipe typing, most themes, custom themes, custom layouts, the toolbar and long-press alternates) need a subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions start with a 7-day free trial. Backing up your settings is free. Requires iOS 26. Bought keyboard2 when it was a paid app? You keep premium for free. Open the app once after updating. We love feedback: info@techamigos.ee, or reddit.com/r/keyboard2 for updates, ideas and bug reports. TechAmigos OÜ, Estonia
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MyKeyboard Legacy at none against keyboard2's 3. MyKeyboard Legacy also leads on iOS requirement (17 vs 26.0). keyboard2's advantage is review sentiment (64% vs 37%) and update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. keyboard2 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. MyKeyboard Legacy asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.7 for MyKeyboard Legacy against 3.8 for keyboard2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 22 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 37% of MyKeyboard Legacy's written reviews are positive against 64% of keyboard2's.
MyKeyboard Legacy ships an update monthly, keyboard2 every 10 days. Both last shipped on November 7, 2026.
| Parameter | MyKeyboard Legacy | keyboard2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (19 ratings) | 3.8 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.8% of reviews | 64.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19 | 22 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 122 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FiveSheep OU | TechAmigos |
Customer experience
MyKeyboard Legacy
keyboard2
In-app purchases
MyKeyboard Legacy
No in-app purchases
keyboard2
- Premium Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$6.991 Year
- Lifetime unlock$14.99
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