Menu Box vs AEK
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Menu Box
Create visually appealing menus for your device's shortcuts. Customize menu items with emojis, app icons, or custom images to build personalized automations. Dynamically generate menus on the fly for advanced shortcut customization.
- Create beautiful menus for Shortcuts
- Customize with emojis, SF Symbols, or custom images
- Attach custom data to menu items
- Fully controllable via Shortcuts
- Dynamically create menus on the fly
- Enhance Action Button functionality
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Menu Box allows you to create beautiful menus in Shortcuts, further customising your advanced Automations. Menus can be created using emojis, SF Symbols App Icons or your own custom images to create truly individual menus with near limitless options. Custom data attached to each menu items allows you to create even more advanced Shortcuts. Menu Box is fully controllable via Shortcuts, including creating Menus dynamically on the fly. Menu Box is perfect for creating advanced Shortcuts to allow you to further customise how your menus look, and becomes especially useful when combined with the Action Button. --- Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
AEK
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This is the Bluetooth speaker control APP, here you can connect to the speaker, there are many functions, such as music, microphone, guitar volume can be adjusted. In the individual interface there are balancing functions, but also see red sound, high school bass and so on. Let you do not need to touch the Bluetooth speaker, you can control the speaker within a certain distance.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AEK at none against Menu Box's 4. AEK also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.5). Menu Box's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months). On price, ads 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. Menu Box sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. AEK asks for nothing beyond the download.
Menu Box ships an update fortnightly, AEK every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Menu Box | AEK |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (14 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Snailed It Development Ltd | GUANDDONG TIANPU TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO.,LTD. |
In-app purchases
Menu Box
- Premium$4.991 Year
- Tip Jar - Small$0.99
- Tip Jar - Medium$2.99
- Tip Jar - Large$4.99
AEK
No in-app purchases
