Comparison

Wait Menu vs Cerebro Keyboard

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

Head to head
About

Wait Menu

Track upcoming events with a simple, lightweight countdown app. See remaining time in days, hours, and minutes, and get notified before events start. Integrates with your system calendar and syncs across devices.

Highlights
  • Event countdowns
  • System calendar integration
  • Customizable notifications
  • Home screen widgets
  • iCloud sync
  • Dark Mode support
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Track the time remaining until your upcoming events with a simple, lightweight app designed to match the native system experience. Wait Menu helps you stay focused on what’s coming next by showing exactly how much time is left - down to the days, hours, and minutes. See your events at a glance with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. Enable notifications to get notified when an event starts, with optional early reminders. Connect your system calendar to import existing events or add new ones directly. Choose which calendar to use and keep everything in sync. Designed with simplicity in mind, Wait Menu offers a distraction-free interface that matches native system design language. Dark Mode ensures a sleek look day or night, while iCloud sync keeps your events up to date across all your devices. Enjoy the waiting!

About

Cerebro Keyboard

Features
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Cerebro Keyboard is an AI voice keyboard for iPhone: speech to text right where you type. Tap the orb, speak normally, and your words appear in the text field. If you like, AI rewrites it first: in another tone, as a list or an email, or in another language. HOW IT WORKS 1. Install Cerebro Keyboard and follow the setup in the app: add Cerebro Voice Keyboard in Settings and turn on "Allow Full Access". 2. In the app you're typing in, switch to Cerebro Voice Keyboard with the globe key. It has no letter keys; to type, the globe key takes you back. 3. Tap the orb and speak. The first time, Cerebro opens for a moment to start the microphone, because iOS doesn't let keyboards use it. Swipe back to your app and keep talking. 4. Tap the orb again when you're done, and your text is typed in. FEATURES • Works in almost any app — Messages, WhatsApp, Mail, Notes, Slack and most others. In password fields iOS always switches to its own keyboard, and some apps don't allow third-party keyboards. • Mic ready for 10 minutes — After each dictation, the next one starts right in the keyboard; once the 10 minutes are up, Cerebro opens for a moment again. iOS shows the orange dot while it's ready, but audio is only recorded and sent when you tap the orb. • Up to 2 minutes per dictation, 10 with Pro — Enough for a long message or a whole meeting. • Live Activity — Follow, stop or cancel your dictation in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen. • AI modes — Pick a mode before you speak or right after a dictation, and your text is rewritten; "Original" brings back your words. Built in: Professional, Concise, Casual, List (bullet points or a to-do list), Email (ready to send), Clean (no swear words) and Translate, into any of 30 languages. Or write your own prompt. • Community — Modes by people who use Cerebro, like Pirate and Shakespeare, credited to their authors. We check each one before it is published; report or hide any you don't want. Submit your own with "Share with the community". • Custom dictionary — Add names and terms that often get misheard, so Cerebro spells them right. • 11 languages — Cerebro detects the language you speak. The app itself speaks English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil). • Give 5, get 5 — Invite people new to Cerebro Keyboard: they get 5 extra transcriptions a month, and so do you for each one who uses the app on two different days, up to 10 people. PRIVACY What you dictate is processed by AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Don't dictate passwords, card numbers, health information or anything else confidential. Your recording goes through our server in Germany and OpenRouter to OpenAI and is deleted right after transcription. Your transcripts are stored only on your iPhone. Text you send to an AI mode goes to Claude by Anthropic, on servers that keep nothing. Cerebro doesn't log your keystrokes, and there is no account to create. PRICING Cerebro Keyboard is free with 20 transcriptions a month. Cerebro Pro gives you unlimited transcriptions of up to 10 minutes each, billed monthly or yearly; the app shows your country's price before you buy. Cerebro Keyboard needs an iPhone with iOS 17.0 or later. Cerebro Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.cerebro-keyboard.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://www.cerebro-keyboard.app/privacy/

Screenshots

Wait Menu4 screens
Cerebro Keyboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Cerebro Keyboard at Free against Wait Menu's $1.99. Wait Menu's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

Cerebro Keyboard is free to download; Wait Menu costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wait Menu ships an update every 10 days, Cerebro Keyboard every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Wait Menu versus Cerebro Keyboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWait MenuCerebro Keyboard
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB8 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperJacek GlazikAllonsy GmbH

In-app purchases

None

Wait Menu

No in-app purchases

None

Cerebro Keyboard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wait Menu free?
Wait Menu costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cerebro Keyboard free?
Cerebro Keyboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Wait Menu or Cerebro Keyboard have ads?
Neither Wait Menu nor Cerebro Keyboard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wait Menu or Cerebro Keyboard?
Wait Menu ships an update every 10 days, and Cerebro Keyboard every 5 days. Most recently, Wait Menu was updated on October 8, 2026 and Cerebro Keyboard on October 4, 2026.

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