iTypeAmharic vs Branah Keyboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iTypeAmharic
This keyboard app enables users to type in Amharic across all iOS applications. Seamlessly post on social media, send messages, and write emails in Amharic, ensuring your thoughts are conveyed in the original language.
- Type Amharic in any app
- Post on social media in Amharic
- Send Amharic text messages
- Write Amharic emails
- Efficient keyboard layout
- Multi-touch keys for combined characters
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Amharic Keyboard is an innovative keyboard that allows you to write in Amharic in Every App * Post on Facebook in Amharic * Text Message in Amharic * Send Emails in Amharic * Post on SocialMedia in Amharic iTypeAmharic is a "3rd party" keyboard that can be used in every iOS application. Type Amharic in iMessages, Facebook, Snapchat and more! iTypeAmharic is an application developed to help those who would like to share thoughts and ideas with other Amharic speakers and utilizes an efficient keyboard layout that is natural for english language keyboard users featuring multi-touch keys for combined characters. Don't let your jokes/proverbs get lost in translation. There is no better way to say what's on your mind than writing it in the original language. Go ahead and express yourself in Amharic.
Branah Keyboard
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Branah Keyboard types in 101 languages, in one app. One keyboard you set up once and move between with a long press on the space bar. Add it in Settings, and it works in every app. WHAT YOU GET - 101 languages, 155 keyboards. Switch on the ones you want; the rest stay out of your way. - Several layouts for many languages: QWERTY, Extended and three Dvoraks for English; InScript and phonetic for the Indian scripts; Kedmanee and Pattachote for Thai; two scripts for Mongolian, Sindhi and Uzbek. - Word suggestions and spelling correction in English (US and UK), Amharic, Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Korean, Tamil and Burmese. Type "recieve" and it offers "receive". - Chinese, Japanese and Cantonese conversion: type pinyin, jyutping, Cangjie, Sucheng, romaji or kana and choose the characters from the bar. Whole words, not one character at a time -- zhongguo gives 中国; nihon gives 日本. - Korean Hanja conversion on the AltGr key. - The full emoji picker. - A dictionary that learns the words you choose -- names, slang, jargon -- and offers them next time. What it learns stays on your iPhone. - Light and dark, following your phone. SCRIPTS THAT NEED MORE THAN A KEYMAP Some writing systems need real work rather than a table of keys, and they have it. Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Odia, Sinhala, Gujarati, Kannada, Punjabi, Khudawadi and Sundanese join their consonants with a virama. Thai, Lao, Khmer and Burmese put the marks of a syllable in the order the standard stores them, whichever order you type them in. Vietnamese fuses its tones onto the vowel. Amharic composes its fidel. Korean builds its syllables from jamo. PRIVACY Branah does not collect what you type. It does not ask for Full Access -- the permission iOS requires before a keyboard can send anything off your device -- so nothing you type ever leaves your iPhone. The words the keyboard learns stay on your device too. FREE Free. No ads, and nothing to buy. LANGUAGES Akan, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bambara, Bashkir, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Buginese, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese, Cherokee, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Coptic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dhivehi, Dutch, Dzongkha, English (UK), English (US), Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Fula, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Khowar, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lisu, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Mongolian, Mossi, Nepali, Norwegian, Odia, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Santali, Sindhi (India), Sindhi (Pakistan), Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Sora, Spanish, Sundanese, Swedish, Syriac, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamazight, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Wolof, Yoruba. Visit https://www.branah.com to learn more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Branah Keyboard at every 10 days against iTypeAmharic's every 2 months. On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
iTypeAmharic ships an update every 2 months, Branah Keyboard every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iTypeAmharic | Branah Keyboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 44.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | theNextTrain | Abraham Kifle |
Bugs and requests
iTypeAmharic
Reported bugs
16 issues- App freezes after update
- App not working since new update
- Amharic keyboard not clickable
- SMS feature not working
- App completely freezes
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- App doesn't work at all
- Can't send/receive messages unless receiver has app
- Doesn't work with messenger, FB, Twitter
- Doesn't allow sending info as text or image
- App doesn't send through email
- Can't write messages on Facebook
- Text goes as a picture, not text
- Can't see what I post, shown as square
- Can't install right font for perfect alphabet
- Writing not clear when sent as image
- Some words cannot be written correctly
Requested features
17 requests- Add Amharic punctuation marks (full stop, comma)
- Add Amharic letter 'Aynu A' (o)
- Keyboard theme preferences (user upload photo)
- Remove settings button next to space bar
- Place globe keyword change button at bottom
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- Include emoji button
- Add Amharic numerical keys
- Improve clarity of image sending
- Add option to delete messages
- Support for iOS 8 keyboard
- Ability to use text, not image file
- Use emoticos
- Change font or background colors
- Use certain fonts (rua, mua, zua, dua)
- Improve email sending
- Make title simpler ('Amharic')
- Add link to Facebook
Branah Keyboard
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
iTypeAmharic
No in-app purchases
Branah Keyboard
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is iTypeAmharic free?
Is Branah Keyboard free?
Do iTypeAmharic or Branah Keyboard have ads?
Which is updated more often, iTypeAmharic or Branah Keyboard?
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