iTypeAmharic vs Black Keys
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.
Black Keys
This app provides multilingual keyboards for typing in unsupported languages and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). It features a dark mode for eye comfort and supports a wide range of languages, including Arabic, Amharic, and Khmer. Tutorials are available for complex typing methods.
- Multilingual keyboard support
- IPA typing
- Dark mode
- Support for many languages
- Tutorial videos
- Long-press for hidden letters
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Black Keys, multilingual keyboards, for unsupported languages and typing IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet). Black mode is simple but awesome and good for your eyes. Check your language in this list and download: *IPA: IPA full and English IPA (new design and full of letters) *Arabic group: Dari, Pashto,Sorani Kurdish, Uyghur *Need to install font group: Amharic, Burmese, Coptic,N'ko,Tifinagh *Others: Khmer, Inuktitut, Georgian, Armenian, Sinhala, Lao, Kazakh, Nepali, Bangla, Gurmukhi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Kannada, Oriya, Telugu. *NOTE: -Some keyboard have longPress to popup some hidden letters: Amharic, Dari, Pashto, Sorani Kurdish. Please take your time to practice much from beginning to understand how to use or check our video tutorials from app -Burmese and Sinhala use smart combination to help you type faster, please check tutorial video from app. -Deprecated languages: Persian, Syriac (move to swipekeys app) If your keyboard miss some letters, or need to improve or you need to add your languages,please contact us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlackKeyboards
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: iTypeAmharic at Free against Black Keys's $0.99. iTypeAmharic also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.4). Black Keys's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (54% vs 44%). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
iTypeAmharic is free to download; Black Keys costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
iTypeAmharic holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 27 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 44% of iTypeAmharic's written reviews are positive against 54% of Black Keys's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
iTypeAmharic ships an update every 2 months, Black Keys fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iTypeAmharic | Black Keys |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (11 ratings) — better | 3.4 (27 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 44.1% of reviews | 53.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | theNextTrain | LE SANG |
Customer experience
iTypeAmharic
Black Keys
User reviews
iTypeAmharic
From 11 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Seamless functionality
- 👍 Good for beginners
- 👍 Innovative technology
- 👍 Great for learning Amharic
Room to improve
- 👎 Useless without other users
- 👎 Not working properly
- 👎 Misleading picture
- 👎 Primitive and useless
- 👎 Waste of money
Black Keys
From 27 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- ✨ Supports multiple languages/fonts
- 🚀 Fast switching between keyboards
- 💰 Good value for price
- 💯 Works perfectly for specific needs (IPA, Syriac, etc.)
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches
- 📉 Font issues and missing characters
- 👎 Inconsistent behavior
- 🚫 Some features not working as expected
- 🔠 Layout changes are not good
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
Black Keys
Reported bugs
53 issues- Keyboard takes up more space over time
- Eastern font lost after update
- Syriac-Eastern font shows as Estrangelo
- Myanmar Error Unicode and Zawgyi
- Cannot add vowels on alphabets
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- Language change button inconsistent
- App took money, no service
- Won't do Normal QWERTY
- Cannot change case, numbers, or common symbols
- Font typing error in iPhone 6 plus
- Cannot see Myanmar font on iPhone
- Typing review of letters falls under finger
- Semi-shift does not work in Twitter
- Space between words gets messed up with semi-shift
- Kazakh missing lowercase 'a'
- Keyboard appears and disappears when clicking a field
- Some Sinhala letters missing
- App closes automatically while typing some letters
- Font missing for Nepalese language
- Every time writing something it shows specific characters
- White mode doesn't work
- Bug with diacritical markers in Notes/Email apps
- Keys seem incomplete for Khmer
- Keys are too small and slow for Khmer
- Keys show as ... when shifting cases
- Key layout moves around when switching cases
- Response when hitting key is slow for Khmer
- Small additional characters hidden under finger
- Cannot find '?' and '!' on new keyboard
- Two keys for Burmese alphabet 'ဘ'
- Zawgyi update misplaced some characters
- Shift key button deleted in Burmese (zawgyi) after iOS 8.1 update
- Cannot see shift key to switch
- Long pressing not accurate on small keypad
- Dots at the foot of character vary
- Cannot find dot to place above characters
- Cannot use Myanmar font properly after updating
- Cannot see Myanmar font on YouTube
- Missing some previous characters in Myanmar Zawgyi font
- Keyboard theme not beautiful anymore
- Space button has a delay
- Keyboard layout not standard for iPad
- Not all keys included in Burmese Unicode Keyboard
- Shift key seems left out in Burmese Unicode Keyboard
- Crashing when attempting to place diacritical markers
- Black background too dark
- No space between keys
- Not working after adding to keyboard list
- Don't work and show keyboard after adding
- A bit of delay when first changing to numpad
- No 'Pa' for word 'Pa'
- Keyboard size issue
- Syriac Estrangelo replaced by Serto after iOS 9 update
Requested features
22 requests- Fix Nestorian style font
- Add vowels on alphabets
- Improve language change button consistency
- Add custom keyboard creation/customization
- Add Latin Extended keyboard
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- Add multiple signs for prenasalization
- Add original theme option
- Add Text-To-Speech function for IPA
- Improve keyboard design and layout
- Add sound for keys
- Add space between keys
- Improve Persian keyboard layout for iPad
- Add white background option
- Fix missing characters in Sinhala keyboard
- Fix missing characters in Nepalese language
- Fix missing characters in Kazakh keyboard
- Fix missing characters in Khmer keyboard
- Fix missing characters in Burmese Unicode Keyboard
- Fix missing characters in Myanmar Zawgyi font
- Add IPA characters for 'm, ɱ, ɳ, ɲ, ŋ, and ɴ'
- Add combining diacritics to Latin Extended keyboard
- Add IPA characters for 'ⁿ'
In-app purchases
iTypeAmharic
No in-app purchases
Black Keys
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Is Black Keys free?
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