Finale Keyboard vs Helmarr
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Minimalist design
- Gesture-based typing
- Auto-completion
- Word deletion
- Emoji and symbol access
- Personalized learning
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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!
Helmarr
Manage all your self-hosted services from a single, native iOS interface. Seamlessly integrate and control applications like Sonarr, Radarr, and Unraid with advanced features and customization.
- Unified experience for multiple services
- Smart multi-network connectivity
- Deep customization options
- Home screen widgets
- Unraid control
- Push notifications
- SSH & SFTP access
- Download management
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Helmarr provides a unified, native iOS interface for your self-hosted services. Stop relying on responsive web UIs and manage your entire stack in an app where your services actually work hand-in-hand. Currently supported: Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Bazarr, Unraid, SSH (+SFTP), Tautulli, Jellystat, Overseerr, Jellyseerr, Seerr, qBt, SABnzbd, NZBGet, Wizarr, Prowlarr, Transmission, Deluge. Key Features: - A Truly Unified Experience: Your stack shouldn't feel like separate silos. Helmarr brings Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Seerr, and Tautulli together. Browse your library, approve requests, and view active streams in one seamless interface. - Smart Connectivity: Full multi-network support allows you to define primary and fallback hosts. Helmarr automatically switches between your LAN IP and WAN/DNS address depending on where you are. - Make It Your Own: Deep customization options let you tweak the app to your liking. Change accent colors, rearrange your tab bar, and set custom headers to match your personal aesthetic. - Home Screen Widgets: Keep an eye on your download queue, upcoming releases, or server stats at a glance without even opening the app. - Unraid Control: Real-time monitoring of Shares, Parity status, Disks, and Warnings. Start/Stop Docker containers and VMs instantly. - Push Notifications: Stay in the loop with configurable alerts for grabs, successful imports, and critical health checks. - Terminal & Vitals: Full SSH & SFTP access with live resource monitoring (CPU/RAM/Net). Manage processes and containers via command line. - Download Management: Remote control for SABnzbd and NZBGet. Pause, resume, reorder queues, and set speed limits on the fly. - Release Browser: Don't just rely on automation—search, filter, and manually grab specific releases with ease. - Onboarding: Generate and manage user invites via Wizarr. Website: https://helmarr.com/ Terms of Service: https://helmarr.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://helmarr.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Helmarr at Free against Finale Keyboard's $14.99. Helmarr also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (193 vs 23). Finale Keyboard's advantage is chart position (#119 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On review sentiment, 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
Helmarr is free to download; Finale Keyboard costs $14.99 up front. Finale Keyboard sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Helmarr sells 19 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Helmarr holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Helmarr has 193 ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 76% and 76% positive.
Finale Keyboard ships an update every 5 days, Helmarr weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Finale Keyboard | Helmarr |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.2 (23 ratings) | 4.8 (193 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.9% of reviews | 75.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 | 193 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #119 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 328 MB | 170 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Grant Oganyan | Florian Ernst |
Customer experience
Finale Keyboard
Helmarr
In-app purchases
Finale Keyboard
- Roll Spacebar$0.99
- The Spacebar$99.99
Helmarr
- Helmarr Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- Ultra Monthly$4.991 Month
- Helmarr Pro Yearly Subscription$17.991 Year
- Bazarr$3.99
- Deluge$4.99
- Plex$4.99
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- Transmission$4.99
- NZBGet$4.99
- Lidarr$4.99
- Unraid$4.99
- SABnzbd$4.99
- Tautulli$4.99
- Sonarr$4.99
- Radarr$4.99
- Seerr$4.99
- qBt$4.99
- Prowlarr$4.99
- Helmarr Pro - Lifetime$29.99
- Lifetime Pro$34.99
Questions
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