Comparison

Clicks Keyboard vs Morning Brief

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Clicks Keyboard

Enhance your typing with advanced keyboard controls. Customize backlight, shift key behavior, and access to numbers and symbols. Optimize your typing experience with features like soft return, cursor mode, and firmware updates.

Highlights
  • Keyboard backlight control
  • Caps lock and shift lock customization
  • Alt lock for numbers and symbols
  • Soft return for line breaks
  • Cursor mode with WASD/IKJL
  • Customizable currency symbol
  • Over-the-air firmware updates
Features
Read full description

The Clicks app unlocks new features for your keyboard. Toggle your keyboard backlight between 'automatic' and off. Use this feature to check the status of your backlight and reset it to automatic mode if it's been accidentally disabled through the keyboard shortcut. Caps lock - Control the behaviour of the shift key. When turned on, pressing the shift key once makes the next charater a capital letter. Double clicking the shift key enables shift lock. When disabled, you must press and hold shift to get a captial letter. Alt lock - Control the behaviour of the '123' key. When turned on, pressing the '123' key once makes the next typed character a number of symbol. Double clicking the shift key enables number lock - (great for typing phone numbers of long number strings!). When disabled, you must press and hold '123' to get numbers and symbols. Soft return - Choose between using the return to add a carriage return (soft return) or send a message (hard return). Clicks key customization - Decide whether you want the Clicks key to function as Tab or Control Cursor mode - Enable cursor mode to use WASD and IJKL as directional cursor keys Currency symbol - Customize your currency symbol Create or log in to your Clicks Keyboard account to get updated about the latest features coming to your Clicks Keyboard Update your keyboard firmware over the air to optimize the typing experience. Learn and explore your Clicks keyboard with access to tips and how-to's. * Certain features and functionality are dependant on your Clicks model.

About

Morning Brief

Start your day with a personalized spoken briefing and visual dashboard. Get weather, agenda, commute, headlines, and market updates arranged in a calm arc. Also includes a customizable routine checklist and optional breathing exercises.

Highlights
  • Spoken daily briefing
  • Weather, agenda, commute panels
  • Headlines and markets overview
  • Customizable routine checklist
  • On-device data processing
  • Optional breathing exercises
Features
Read full description

Pick up your iPhone with your coffee, and your whole day is already laid out. Weather, agenda, commute, headlines and markets become a scroll of cards, summarized out loud in about two minutes. Morning Brief turns the reflex of checking your phone in bed into a ritual you actually look forward to. YOUR DAY, ON ONE SCREEN • Weather with current conditions, an hourly forecast, highs, lows and the UV index • Severe weather alerts surfaced before anything else • Agenda with every event of the day, plus your reminders • Commute with travel time, a route map and when to leave • Headlines on your topics, readable in a built-in browser • Markets with your stocks, indices and crypto, drawn as a chart • Health (optional) with your sleep, steps and an energy score computed on device A SPOKEN BRIEFING, GENERATED ON YOUR DEVICE Apple Intelligence writes a short, warm briefing from your actual data and reads it out loud. As the voice moves from topic to topic, the matching card lights up and the sentence appears word by word, so you can follow along or just listen while you get ready. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO AND IPAD • Open: the briefing on one side, your day on the other • Folded on the table: a big clock up top, a remote with play, skip and topics below • Bedside mode: a dim, hands-free clock that reads your day • On iPad, your cards in two columns WIDGETS AND LOCK SCREEN A small launcher, a medium card with your weather and next events, and a Day Recap poster. On the Lock Screen, your next event and your energy score. From Control Center, one press starts the brief. MORNING AND EVENING Pick your time, get a gentle notification, and start in one tap, or just say: Hey Siri, start my Morning Brief. In the evening, the Evening Brief closes the day and previews tomorrow. YOUR OWN MORNING ROUTINE • A checklist of your own steps to tick off each morning • Streaks, perfect days and stats for the ritual you are building • Countdowns to the dates that matter • An optional one-minute breathing exercise, guided out loud PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No server. No tracking. The briefing is generated entirely on device, and your calendar, addresses and health data never leave it. Weather, news and market data are fetched anonymously, straight from their sources. Weather, agenda and news are free. Morning Brief Premium unlocks commute, markets, health, the Evening Brief, your routine, countdowns and breathing, with a monthly or yearly subscription. The spoken briefing uses Apple Intelligence when available and a built-in voice otherwise. Start tomorrow differently. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Clicks Keyboard4 screens
Morning Brief4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Morning Brief at 100% against Clicks Keyboard's 32%. Morning Brief also leads on rating (4.2 vs 2.9) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks). Clicks Keyboard's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (61 vs 9). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Morning Brief sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Clicks Keyboard asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Morning Brief holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clicks Keyboard has 61 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 32% of Clicks Keyboard's written reviews are positive against 100% of Morning Brief's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clicks Keyboard ships an update every 6 weeks, Morning Brief every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Clicks Keyboard versus Morning Brief: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClicks KeyboardMorning Brief
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.9 (61 ratings)4.2 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews31.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings61 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperClicks Technology LtdDevpool

Customer experience

Clicks Keyboard

All ratings56 ratings
Positive44.6%
Neutral8.9%
Negative46.4%
Written reviews76 reviews
Positive31.6%
Neutral11.8%
Negative56.6%

Morning Brief

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Clicks Keyboard

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Morning Brief

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly1 Month trial$4.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly1 Year trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Clicks Keyboard free?
Clicks Keyboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Morning Brief free?
Morning Brief is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Clicks Keyboard or Morning Brief?
Morning Brief is rated higher. Clicks Keyboard averages 2.9 out of 5 from 61 ratings, while Morning Brief averages 4.2 from 9 ratings.
Do Clicks Keyboard or Morning Brief have ads?
Neither Clicks Keyboard nor Morning Brief shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clicks Keyboard or Morning Brief?
Clicks Keyboard ships an update every 6 weeks, and Morning Brief every 9 days. Most recently, Clicks Keyboard was updated on November 7, 2026 and Morning Brief on November 10, 2026.

Other comparisons