Phone Pad SMS / Mail Keyboard vs Talk SMS Email Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Phone Pad SMS / Mail Keyboard
This keyboard offers a traditional 10-key numeric keypad layout for iPhone messaging, designed for users transitioning from older mobile phones. It features larger keys to reduce typing errors and supports multiple languages with special characters. Useful buttons for clearing, hiding, mailing, and copying text are also included.
- Traditional 10-key numeric keypad layout
- Larger key size to reduce typing errors
- Multi-language support with special characters
- Auto-determination of characters
- Auto-capitalization for sentences
- Quick access buttons (Clear, Hide, Mail, Copy, Paste)
- Save messages in a list
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Having hard time getting used to tiny full keyboard? Now you got traditional cellphone's 10 key numeric key-pad on your iPhone for messaging! (SMS for only iPhone) Please try FREE version "Phone Pad URL Keyboard Free" first. *THIS KEYBOARD IS NOT APPEAR OR WORK IN OTHER APPS. (All developer can not show own keyboard in other app) We made this app who switched to iPhone from mobile phone. SPECIAL FEATURES: * Ideal key size that reduce probability of typographic errors * Easy to type Spanish, French, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Dutch, Rumanian, Danish / Norwegian (eg. á ö ñ ø è â ç å β æ œ ì ñ ö ü ú, etc) * Useful keyboard Settings (touch the “tools” icon for setting): - Auto determination of character typed with multi-input key (eg. When “ABC” key is typed once, the character “A” will be determined automatically after certain time interval, which is adjustable at the “tool” menu. This means you can type the same character continuously without using the right arrow key) - Auto capitalization on the 1st letter of each sentence * Useful buttons equipped: - “Clear” button to erase subject and/or body of the message immediately - “Hide” button to hide the keyboard for better view of longer messages - “Mail” button to send the content to Mail application - “I’m here!” button to get map URL of your Location. - “Copy” button to copy All text and you can choose to open twitter site. - “Paste” button to paste text into body field. - “(^_^)” button to input face mark. * Save messages in “list” + Also Available!! + - 1Hand Keyboard Series – You can type messages and URLs easier with our original keyboard! ----------------------------------------- 1Hand Keyboard URL List Free ========================= 1Hand Mail / SMS Keyboard English, Spanish, French, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Dutch, Rumanian ------------------------------- - Easy Mailer Series - Write messages and URLs easier with useful arrow keys & original extended keys! - ----------------------------------------- Easy URL Keyboard Free ========================= Easy Mail / SMS Keyboard English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Danish / Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Rumanian ----------------------------------------- Please check our website www.4us.jp Thank you!
Talk SMS Email Notes
Capture text from your camera, convert it into notes, and send it via SMS or email. It also offers text-to-speech functionality in multiple languages and exports notes to iCloud Drive.
- Camera text scanning
- SMS and email sending
- Text-to-speech with language selection
- Note saving and organization
- iCloud Drive export
- Copy to clipboard
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Talking the daily text information from our camera, send the email, send the short message and export to iCloud Drive. Launch this app, just tap the + button at the top right corner, long press the text view, tap live text button, insert the text information from our camera. The text will be displayed in the text view. Tap the SMS button to send the text as the short message. Tap the email button to send the text as your mail. Tap the talk button, this App will talk the text directly if it is in English. If the text we insert is other than English, then just tap the button at the bottom right corner, we could select the. different language. This is Talk SMS Email Notes. It will record the date and time when we tap the save button. After tapping the save button, the text notes will be saved to the core data system. Export the notes to iCloud Driver or other App with the text file. We could input the name of the text file. In the main view, when we tap the export button at the bottom toolbar and select the item: export to remote files, the text notes will be saved to the text file and sent to iCloud Drive or other App you indict. If we select the item:export to pasteboard, the text notes could be copied to the pasteboard and we could paste at other text view or text field in the different apps. In the main view, tap the right button in the table cell, we could select or deselect the cell. In the main view, if we do not select any table cell, then tap the talk button, all of notes will be talked. if we select several table cells, then only the notes for the selected cells will be talked. If we do not select any table cell, then tap the Export button, all of notes will be exported. if we select several table cells, then only the notes for the selected cells will be exported. In the main view, if we do not select any table cell, then tap the SMS or Email button, the App will remind us to select at least one table cell. If we already select several table cells, then only the notes for the selected cells will be added to the SMS or Email body. The text notes sent from this App as email will also be displayed at the sent folder of the Mail app of the iOS device. The text notes sent from this App as SMS will also be displayed at the Messages app of the iOS device. The SMS feature is only available for the devices which could send messages such as iPhone or some iPad. If we need to use the send email feature, we need to set the default Mail app of the iOS device first. Otherwise, the two buttons will be disabled. In the main view, each note will have the created date time which will be displayed as the second line. So we could know when these text notes are captured from our camera or input from soft keyboard. In the main view, tap the table cell directly, the detail view will be displayed. In the single note detail view, we could input the text content by soft keyboard. In this latest edition, If we long press the text view, the live text scan button will be displayed, so we could capture the text content from the camera directly. In iOS 16, The languages currently supported by Live Text include English, French, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Japanese, and Korean. Several old iPhone devices may not support this live text feature. This edition could talk the text notes to the upcoming phone call with the iphone. The iOS version should be 13.0 or later. First , accept the coming phone call, then in the main list view or single note view, tap the talk buttons. Finally, the other people could listen the talking of this app from his or her phone. Both sides could hear the same talking contents in the same speed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Phone Pad SMS / Mail Keyboard at 100% against Talk SMS Email Notes's 0%. Phone Pad SMS / Mail Keyboard also leads on rating (4.0 vs 1.0). Talk SMS Email Notes's advantage is update cadence (every 6 months vs every 25 months). On price, ratings volume, 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
Phone Pad SMS / Mail Keyboard costs $0.99 and Talk SMS Email Notes $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Phone Pad SMS / Mail Keyboard holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Phone Pad SMS / Mail Keyboard's written reviews are positive against 0% of Talk SMS Email Notes's.
Phone Pad SMS / Mail Keyboard ships an update every 25 months, Talk SMS Email Notes every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Phone Pad SMS / Mail Keyboard | Talk SMS Email Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 25 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Toshihiro Nakane | 方 沈 |
Customer experience
Phone Pad SMS / Mail Keyboard
Talk SMS Email Notes
In-app purchases
Phone Pad SMS / Mail Keyboard
No in-app purchases
Talk SMS Email Notes
No in-app purchases
Questions
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