Keyb vs Look Straight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Keyb
Boost your typing efficiency with a custom keyboard that allows you to save and reuse text snippets. Enhance your messages with dynamic placeholders for clipboard content, dates, and location. Seamlessly integrate across all your apps for consistent productivity.
- Reusable text snippets
- Dynamic snippets with placeholders
- Clipboard integration (Pro)
- Text transformation
- Cross-app compatibility
- Unlimited categories/snippets (Pro)
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Keyb is your productivity keyboard! ### Save time with reusable snippets ### Save time by using predefined text snippets for common phrases you frequently type, such as email replies, greetings, code templates, or personal information. Organize these snippets into categories for easy access. ### Dynamic snippets with placeholders ### Enhance your snippets with placeholders that automatically insert: - Text from the clipboard - Text selected in a text field - Current date and time - Current location (as coordinates, address, or URL) - Transform text in a text field (uppercase, lowercase, capitalize) - … and more! ### Seamless integration across all apps ### Switch to the Keyb keyboard and paste your snippets into any text field in any app, boosting productivity across all your iOS applications. ### Permissions Required for Extended Features ### Some features require enabling "Full Access" for the keyboard extension in system settings.
Look Straight
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Look Straight detects head orientation, eye states, and mouth gestures in real time — then uses those cues to run automations, trigger actions, send messages, and control devices. Simply look, tilt, or turn your head, open or close your mouth, or look away to activate shortcuts, play sounds, speak text, control HomeKit, launch web requests, or send OSC messages. Look Straight is built for productive control and automation. • It’s not a mouse or keyboard replacement. • It’s not full facial performance capture. • It’s not a generic accessibility pointer tool. Instead: • Your intention = a trigger. If you look away, turn your head, tilt it, close your eyes, or smile/open your mouth, the app can respond. • Action-first focus. Every recognition state can map to an action. • Flexible for public speakers, creators, automators, developers, and power users. Whether you’re streaming, working remotely, automating your smart home, or building custom command pipelines — Look Straight gives you a new “input channel” with your face. # Head, Eye & Mouth States • Head yaw, pitch, tilt (turned left/right, nodded, tilted). • Eye states: centered, side-eye, averted, closed. • Mouth states: closed, open, and smiling. These states feed discrete triggers you can act on. # Trigger Conditions & Actions Define when a state becomes “active” and what happens when it does. Actions include: • Display a visual alert. • Trigger a sound. • Speak custom text aloud. • Run a shortcuts. • Send an OSC message to external software or hardware. • Execute a web request. • Control HomeKit accessories or scenes. # Action Sets Create Action Sets (groupings of actions) — Pro users can have unlimited sets; free users get one. # User Profiles and Custom Calibrations Create user profiles that can have custom calibrations for more accurate head, eye, and mouth state detection. Available only with Look Straight Pro. ## Activity Logging & Export Track what’s happening: when states changed and gaze dynamics over time. Logs are written locally (never uploaded automatically), exportable as CSV. Available only with Look Straight Pro. ## Automation with Shortcuts and OSC • Control Look Straight using shortcuts. Change action sets and user profiles when you switch Focus modes. Perfect for streamers, home automators, and productivity fans. • Interface with devices that support Open Sound Control (OSC) such as video switchers. Available only with Look Straight Pro. # How you might use it • Presenter / Streamer: Looking off-camera triggers a “BRB” overlay or mute/unmute. • Home automation user: Head tilt left activates lights off; mouth open for 3 seconds turns on a scene. • Accessibility augmentor: While not a replacement for pointer input, you can trigger recurring reminders when you look away or pause. • Video production / AV professional: Use OSC to send commands when you glance at a cue monitor—automating camera switch, lighting cues, tally signals. • Researcher / maker: Collect CSV logs of gaze orientation and states; prototype interactive installations where your motivation is “face input = action.” # Pro vs Free Free users get a streamlined experience with one Action Set and basic triggers. A single In-App Purchase unlocks these Pro features: • Unlimited Actions and Action Sets • OSC support • User profiles and custom calibration settings • Activity recording # Privacy & On-Device Focus Your face video never leaves your device. Look Straight does not collect, transmit, or sell any personally identifiable information or location data. All app data (profiles, calibrations, action sets) is stored locally and may sync via iCloud if enabled — the developer has no access to this data. Activity logs are saved locally and can be exported by you (never uploaded automatically). Deleting the app removes local data; if iCloud sync was enabled, data in iCloud may remain unless you manually purge it via iCloud settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Look Straight at Free against Keyb's $3.99. Look Straight also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). 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
Look Straight is free to download; Keyb costs $3.99 up front. Keyb sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Look Straight sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Keyb ships an update weekly, Look Straight every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on August 23, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Keyb | Look Straight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christian Lobach | Adam Tow |
In-app purchases
Keyb
- Keyb Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- Keyb Pro Yearly3 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Keyb Pro Lifetime$59.99
Look Straight
- Look Straight Pro Full Access$9.99









