keyboard2 vs The Browser
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
keyboard2
A privacy-focused keyboard app offering a familiar interface with advanced customization. Enjoy features like a separate number row, long-tap symbols, and diverse layouts. It also provides predictions, emoji access, and theme options to enhance your typing experience.
- Long-tap symbols
- Separate number row
- Multiple keyboard layouts
- Access to special characters
- Typing predictions
- Emoji search and quick access
- Customizable themes
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keyboard2 is a smart, private keyboard for iPhone. Autocorrect that fixes what you meant, swipe typing, predictions in 36 languages and tools under your thumb, all running on your iPhone. The keyboard uses no internet at all, so nothing you type ever leaves your device. TYPE SMARTER - Predictions, autocorrect and autocomplete in 36 languages: 13 built in, the rest download once when you add them - Autocorrect that fixes swapped, missing and extra letters, and puts back missing accents and apostrophes - Swipe typing with an on-device model that learns how you swipe - Write in two languages at once: keyboard2 works out which one you are using, word by word - Suggestions that read the whole sentence, not just the last word - Learns your words on your device, and one backspace undoes a fix and teaches it - Learns where you tap each key and moves the key borders to match - Fixes capitalization, including German nouns - Smart punctuation that follows your language: quotes, ¿ ¡, French spacing - Emoji suggestions while you type TOOLS UNDER YOUR THUMB - Smart wheel: swipe up from the space bar to switch language or reach any tool - Clipboard history with text and images, as a list or a grid - Toolbar with cut, copy, paste, clipboard and emoji, one swipe from the suggestions - Text replacements, including the shortcuts you set up in iOS - Hold the space bar to move the cursor like a trackpad, flick to jump a sentence - Swipe left from delete to remove whole words - Paste a copied one-time code with one tap - Layouts that fit the field: number pads, email and web address keys - Emoji search in 35 languages that forgives typos PRIVACY FIRST - The keyboard never connects to the internet. Everything you type stays on your device - Extra languages come from Apple's App Store. Nothing of yours is sent - No tracking, no data collection MAKE IT YOURS - 30+ keyboard layouts, or build your own - Your own font, size and weight for every part of the keyboard - Set key height, key gaps and the suggestion bar's height - 100+ themes in the app, or build your own and share it - A real, typeable preview in Settings, so you see every change as you make it - The app and the keyboard in all 36 languages - A split keyboard on the unfolded iPhone Duo, held sideways KEEP YOUR SETUP - Save your settings and themes to a file you choose, and put them back on a new phone - Optional automatic backups to a folder you pick. It never comes to us - Settings only. Never the words the keyboard learned, your clipboard or your emoji history PREDICTION LANGUAGES (36) English, Estonian, German, Finnish, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Romanian, Hungarian, French, Italian, Afrikaans, Breton, Bosnian, Catalan, Czech, Esperanto, Basque, Galician, Greek, Indonesian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Tagalog, Turkish, Vietnamese KEYBOARD LAYOUTS QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY, QZERTY, Colemak, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Croatian, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian (ЙЦУКЕН, with or without ё and ъ keys), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, or one you build yourself FREE AND PREMIUM keyboard2 is free to download, and everything is unlocked for your first hour of typing. After that, basic typing stays free forever; premium features (predictions, swipe typing, most themes, custom themes, custom layouts, the toolbar and long-press alternates) need a subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions start with a 7-day free trial, so you get a real chance to try everything before paying anything. Backing up your settings is free. Requires iOS 26. Bought keyboard2 when it was a paid app? You keep premium for free. Open the app once after updating. We love feedback: info@techamigos.ee, or reddit.com/r/keyboard2 for updates, ideas and bug reports. TechAmigos OÜ, Estonia
The Browser
A fast, private web browser with on-device AI for summarizing pages and answering questions. It blocks ads and trackers by default, offers private tabs, and supports extensions.
- On-device AI for summarization and Q&A
- Blocks ads, trackers, and fingerprinting
- Private tabs with Face ID lock
- Supports Chrome and Firefox extensions
- Hide distracting elements on web pages
- Reader mode for articles
- Offline page translation
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The Browser is a fast, private web browser with a built-in AI that runs entirely on your device — no account, no data collection, no tracking. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT • Blocks ads, trackers, and fingerprinting out of the box • Automatically declines cookie-consent pop-ups • Private tabs locked with Face ID • Nothing is collected — your browsing stays on your device ON-DEVICE AI • Summarize any page or ask questions about it • Runs locally with a compact model — works even without Apple Intelligence • No prompts or pages are sent to a server EXTENSIONS (BETA) • Install Chrome and Firefox extensions — one tap from their web stores or from a file • Manage permissions and per-site access BUILT FOR FOCUS • Hide Distracting Items — tap to remove clutter on any page, remembered per site • Reader mode for clean, readable articles • Offline translation of pages in many languages MADE FOR iPHONE & iPAD • Optimized iPad layout with a sidebar and multiple windows • Voice search, downloads manager, per-site settings • A customizable start page Fast, focused, and private — the way browsing should be.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: The Browser at 5.0 against keyboard2's 3.7. The Browser also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 8 days). keyboard2's advantage is ratings volume (21 vs 2). On price, ads, monetization model 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. keyboard2 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. The Browser asks for nothing beyond the download.
The Browser holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: keyboard2 has 21 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
keyboard2 ships an update every 8 days, The Browser every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | keyboard2 | The Browser |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (21 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 117 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | TechAmigos | Cristian Camilo Arias Botero |
Customer experience
keyboard2
The Browser
In-app purchases
keyboard2
- Premium Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$6.991 Year
- Lifetime unlock$14.99
The Browser
No in-app purchases









