Comparison

KeyboardKit vs Finale Keyboard

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

Head to head
About

KeyboardKit

Replace your device's default keyboard with a highly customizable alternative. Personalize typing with custom fonts, toolbars, emoji skin tones, and clipboards. Supports a vast array of languages and layout options for a truly unique typing experience.

Highlights
  • Customizable keyboard themes
  • Type with custom fonts
  • Extra toolbar row and buttons
  • Customizable emoji skin tone
  • Clipboard manager for quick pasting
  • Support for 75 languages
  • Multiple keyboard layouts
Features
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KeyboardKit lets you replace the system keyboard with a custom keyboard that is truly yours. KeyboardKit: - Works with all apps - Supports 110+ languages - Has many settings and themes KeyboardKit supports: - 110+ languages - QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY - Colemak, Dvorak - Korean Hangul - Thai 4-row and 5-row - Vietnamese TELEX, VIQR, VNI KeyboardKit lets you: - Apply more settings - Type with custom fonts - Add an extra row of buttons - Add buttons to the main toolbar - Add buttons next to the spacebar - Paste into any app from a list of clips - Style your keyboard with beautiful themes - Make your keyboard keys bigger and bolder Supported Languages: English (en), Afrikaans (af), Albanian (sq), Apache, Western (apw), Arabic (ar), Arabic (PC) (ar_PC), Armenian (hy), Azerbaijani (az), Basque (France) (eu_FR), Basque (Spain) (eu_ES), Belarusian (be), Bangla (bn), Blackfoot (bla), Bosnian (bs), Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Cherokee (chr), Chickasaw (cic), Chochenyo (cst), Choctaw (cho), Chuvash (cv), Comanche (com), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), Dutch (Belgium) (nl_BE), English (Australia) (en_AU), English (Canada) (en_CA), English (United Kingdom) (en_GB), English (South Africa) (en_ZA), English (United States) (en_US), Esperanto (eo), Estonian (et), Faroese (fo), Filipino (fil), Finnish (fi), French (fr), French (Canada) (fr_CA), French (Belgium) (fr_BE), French (Switzerland) (fr_CH), Galician (Spain) (gl_ES), Georgian (ka), German (de), German (Austria) (de_AT), German (Switzerland) (de_CH), Greek (el), Hawaiian (haw), Hebrew (Israel) (he_IL), Hungarian (hu), Icelandic (is), Inari Sami (smn), Indonesian (id), Irish (Ireland) (ga_IE), Italian (it), Kalaallisut (kl), Kazakh (kk), Khmer (km), Kildin Sámi (sjd), Kiowa (kio), Korean (ko), Kurdish, Sorani (ckb), Kurdish, Sorani (Iraq) (ckb_IQ), Kurdish, Sorani (PC) (ckb_PC), Kyrgyz (ky), Latvian (lv), Lithuanian (lt), Lule Sami (smj), Lushootseed (lut), Luxembourgish (lb), Macedonian (mk), Malay (ms), Maltese (mt), Māori (mi), Mongolian (mn), Mvskoke (mus), Navajo (nv), Nez Perce (nez), North Sámi (se), Norwegian Bokmål (nb), Norwegian Nynorsk (nn), Osage (osa), Persian (fa), Pite Sámi (sje), Polish (pl), Portuguese (Portugal) (pt_PT), Portuguese (Brazil) (pt_BR), Romanian (ro), Romansh (rm), Russian (ru), Salish (fla), Samoan (sm), Serbian (sr), Serbian (Latin) (sr-Latn), Tajik (tg), Skolt Sami (sms), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), South Sámi (sma), Spanish (es), Spanish (Latin America) (es_419), Spanish (Mexico) (es_MX), Swedish (sv), Swahili (sw), Thai (th), Turkish (tr), Turkmen (tk), Ukrainian (uk), Ume Sámi (sju), Uzbek (uz), Vietnamese (vi), Welsh (cy), Wixárika (hch), Xhosa (xh), Yiddish (yi), Yoruba (yo), Zulu (zu) Available Settings: - Keyboard:  Text Replacements, Keyboard Placement, Character Preview, Haptic Feedback, Sound, Auto-Capitalization, Auto-Collapse, Enable Caps Lock, Predictive Text, "." Shortcut,  Spacebar Long Press Behavior, Spacebar Leading & Trailing Menu,  Toolbar Menu, Input Toolbar, Custom Spacebar & Toolbar Actions - Autocomplete: Auto-Complete, Auto-Correction, Auto-Ignore Words, Emoji Suggestions, Lexicon Suggestions, Next Character Prediction, Text Replacements, Ignored Words, Number of Suggestions, Hide toolbar, Next Word Prediction with Claude and Open AI, - Clipboard: Add Clipboard Content, Create Custom Clips - Dictation: Silence Limit (before dictation ends) - Emoji:  Emoji Keyboard, Emoji Autocomplete, Default Emoji Skin Tone - Feedback: Haptic Feedback Sound - Fonts:  Select Custom Font - Theme:  Pick Theme, Create Custom Themes (Premium) - Accessibility: Bold Text, Custom Button Height We hope that you will love using KeyboardKit! Terms & Conditions: https://apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Finale Keyboard

A minimalist keyboard app designed for speed and efficiency. It utilizes intuitive gestures for tasks like auto-completion, deletion, and punctuation insertion, learning your typing style over time. Access emojis and symbols with simple swipes.

Highlights
  • Minimalist design
  • Gesture-based typing
  • Auto-completion
  • Word deletion
  • Emoji and symbol access
  • Personalized learning
Features
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Finale Keyboard is a gesture-based minimal keyboard loaded with smart features to help you type faster. Ever used Fleksy (R.I.P)? You'll feel right at home. A new, freshly renovated, modern home. Finale Keyboard is not your typical keyboard. While you type characters as usual, most other actions - like inserting spaces, autocorrecting, adding punctuation, and more - are done using swipe gestures. Gestures allow you to type much faster than traditional keyboards. While they may take a few days to get used to, once they become second nature, you won't want to type without them. Finale Keyboard also has the smallest footprint of any keyboards available on iPhone. So, not only will you type faster, but you'll also reclaim valuable screen real estate. -- Features -- - Smallest keyboard for the iPhone: Save your screen real estate for what matters the most. - Easy-to-master gestures that let you type faster: Type blazingly fast with convenient gestures for your most important actions. - Smart autocorrect: Swipe right after typing a word to quickly autocorrect it and insert a space. Don't worry about typos - Finale will take care of misspellings for you. - Learns your vocabulary: Often use "gonna", "wanna", "yaaas", or have your own unique slang? Finale Keyboard will automatically learn words you type often and add them to its dictionary. - Shortcuts: Add shortcuts to any key and trigger them with a downward swipe or a long-press. Insert emojis, contact information, perform cut / copy / paste, and more. - Clipboard history: Access your clipboard history to quickly paste anything you copied before. Perfect for links, codes, addresses, numbers and other text you might need to reuse. - Dynamic touch zones: Finale Keyboard predicts which characters you are most likely to type next and will dynamically increase their touch zones to help you be more accurate. - Favorite Emojis: Create a personalized emoji layout so your most-used emojis are always exactly where you expect them. - Custom extensions: Build custom actions to load data or trigger actions in third-party apps and services, right from your keyboard. -- Gestures guide -- Essential - swipe right: Autocorrect a word and insert a space - swipe right after a space: Insert punctuation - swipe up or down: Cycle through suggestions - swipe left: Delete words - swipe right on 'shift': Toggle symbols - swipe left on 'backspace': Open emojis - swipe down: Close emojis - swipe up on 'backspace': Return Shortcuts - swipe down on a shortcut key: Use shortcut - hold 'backspace': Peek at shortcuts Miscellaneous - swipe up on 'shift': Change language - swipe up: Learn a new word - hold 'shift': Toggle autocorrection - hold and slide anywhere: Move cursor - swipe up and hold: Continuously type a character - swipe left or right with two fingers: Switch one-handed mode Keyboard controls - swipe down on 'backspace': Hide keyboard - swipe down on 'shift': Change keyboard Supported languages: Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Kazakh, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian. Email me at grant@finaletodo.com to request the language you need!

Screenshots

KeyboardKit4 screens
Finale Keyboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: KeyboardKit at Free against Finale Keyboard's $14.99. KeyboardKit also leads on ratings volume (83 vs 23). Finale Keyboard's advantage is review sentiment (76% vs 52%) and update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). On rating, ads, in-app purchases 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

KeyboardKit is free to download; Finale Keyboard costs $14.99 up front. KeyboardKit sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Finale Keyboard sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

KeyboardKit holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 83 and 23 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 52% of KeyboardKit's written reviews are positive against 76% of Finale Keyboard's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

KeyboardKit ships an update fortnightly, Finale Keyboard every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 27, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
KeyboardKit versus Finale Keyboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKeyboardKitFinale Keyboard
PriceFree — better$14.99
Rating4.4 (83 ratings) — better4.2 (23 ratings)
Positive reviews52.0% of reviews75.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings83 — better23
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB328 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKankoda Sweden ABGrant Oganyan

Customer experience

KeyboardKit

All ratings83 ratings
Positive80.7%
Neutral10.8%
Negative8.4%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive52.0%
Neutral36.0%
Negative12.0%

Finale Keyboard

All ratings23 ratings
Positive73.9%
Neutral8.7%
Negative17.4%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive75.9%
Neutral6.9%
Negative17.2%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

KeyboardKit

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Year
2 purchases

Finale Keyboard

One-time2
  • Roll Spacebar$0.99
  • The Spacebar$99.99

Questions

Is KeyboardKit free?
KeyboardKit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Finale Keyboard free?
Finale Keyboard costs $14.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, KeyboardKit or Finale Keyboard?
KeyboardKit is rated higher. KeyboardKit averages 4.4 out of 5 from 83 ratings, while Finale Keyboard averages 4.2 from 23 ratings.
Do KeyboardKit or Finale Keyboard have ads?
Neither KeyboardKit nor Finale Keyboard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, KeyboardKit or Finale Keyboard?
KeyboardKit ships an update fortnightly, and Finale Keyboard every 5 days. Most recently, KeyboardKit was updated on October 27, 2026 and Finale Keyboard on October 27, 2026.

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