Comparison

Mega Key vs TBoard

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

Head to head
About

Mega Key

This app offers a custom large-format keyboard for iOS, featuring keys 40% larger than the default. It aims to enhance typing accuracy and ease for users with fine motor challenges, providing optimized layouts and multiple keyboard options.

Highlights
  • Large-format keys (40% larger)
  • Optimized layout for accuracy
  • Three keyboard choices (ABC, QWERTY, QWERTY-split)
  • Split keyboard option
  • Designed for fine motor difficulties
Features
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A custom large-format keyboard for iOS designed to improve accessibility for users with fine motor difficulties. Each key is approximately 40% larger than on the default keyboard, with an optimized layout making typing easier and more accurate. Word completion and next-word prediction features have been added to speed up typing. Includes three keyboard choices (ABC, QWERTY, and QWERTY-split (The keyboard is split into two halves, one of which is displayed on the screen at a time. You can switch between the halves)), as well as a keyboard with numbers and symbols.

About

TBoard

This app provides a typing-first Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) experience. It offers customizable letterboards and text-to-speech capabilities to help individuals express themselves. The app also includes learning modules and practice sessions to support communication development.

Highlights
  • Typing-first AAC communication
  • Customizable letterboards
  • Text-to-speech with chosen voices
  • Daily lessons and practice sessions
  • Private messaging circle
  • Progress tracking and statistics
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TBoard is a typing-first AAC communication app for iPad. Select letters, words or pictures and hear them spoken aloud. Use a built-in letterboard, photograph a printed board, or build your own. Parents, family members and practitioners can use daily spelling lessons, worksheets and a gradebook on the same device. The full landscape AAC experience—letterboards, custom boards, lessons, worksheets, Practice, and Stats—runs on iPad and iPhone. Invited communication partners use Messaging Lite to stay connected with a speller's circle. TBoard carries the mechanics of a session—each step, the spelling, the board swaps and resets—so parents, family members, and practitioners can stay focused on the person, not the process. COMMUNICATE - The full 26-letter board, 3-stencil, QWERTY, and number layouts—big, steady keys designed for communicators with apraxia or motor differences. - Choose how the board responds: On Touch registers a key the moment a finger lands, visual, spoken, or haptic feedback confirms every selection, and Tap Guard ignores accidental double-taps. - Make the board you already use speak: photograph a printed core board, a picture board, or a paper letterboard and the photo itself becomes a board. Frame it, check the keys it read, fix a word or add a key, and every cell says its word when pressed. - Or build your own in the Board Builder with icons, labels, and your own photos—your layout, colors, and key sizes. - Read selected letters, words and typed messages aloud with text-to-speech, including Personal Voice on supported Apple devices. LEARN AND PRACTICE - Three new lessons every day—one per difficulty tier, formatted the way a spelling session flows. Read together, then answer questions, spelling, and math on the board; every answer is checked in real time as it's spelled, and the board can swap and reset for you. - My Lessons holds three kinds of work: Motor Lessons spelled on the board, Practice Worksheets with try-again support, and Graded Worksheets that land in the gradebook. Nine answer types—multiple choice, select all that apply, true or false, answer on the board, number, matching, ordering, open answer, and spelling—in the order you wrote them. - Build a worksheet by hand, or photograph one and highlight it—the passage, each question, its answer—and it plays as a lesson. Import from a photo, a PDF, or a file; text recognition stays on your device, and you review everything before saving. - A gradebook a teacher will recognize: one row per attempt, full, half, or no credit on written answers, notes, and an exportable report. The answer key stays hidden from the student unless you switch it on. - Warm up with Practice—short rounds that keep moving on their own and add help when the typing gets hard. - Progress you can trust: first-try answers, hints, retries, and per-letter accuracy. STAY CONNECTED - Exchange private messages with invited family members and practitioners in a communicator's circle. - Report a received message or block its sender from the conversation. - No public profiles, no feeds, no stranger discovery. TRY IT FREE, THEN BUY IT ONCE Try everything free for 7 days. Then one purchase unlocks TBoard for good—nothing renews, nothing to cancel. One purchase covers every communicator profile in a household and restores on any device signed in with the same Apple Account. Nothing is deleted while the app is locked. PRIVACY BY DESIGN TBoard has no ads and does not track you across apps or websites. Diagnostics are off until you opt in. Photos and documents you import stay on your device—only the lesson text you approve is saved to your account. Signed-in profile data is backed up so it can be restored, and you can delete your account and its data from inside the app. TBoard is a communication and educational tool. It is not a medical device or a substitute for professional care or speech therapy. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Mega Key4 screens
TBoard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mega Key at none against TBoard's 3. Mega Key also leads on review sentiment (64% vs 50%). TBoard's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 months) and rating (4.2 vs 3.9). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. TBoard sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Mega Key asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TBoard holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 64% of Mega Key's written reviews are positive against 50% of TBoard's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mega Key ships an update every 6 months, TBoard every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Mega Key versus TBoard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMega KeyTBoard
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (14 ratings)4.2 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.6% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB120 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperYanling WangMuted Labs LLC

Customer experience

Mega Key

All ratings11 ratings
Positive72.7%
Neutral9.1%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive63.6%
Neutral9.1%
Negative27.3%

TBoard

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Mega Key

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

TBoard

Subscriptions2
  • TBoard Monthly$9.991 Month
  • TBoard Annual$79.991 Year
One-time1
  • TBoard Premium$49.99

Questions

Is Mega Key free?
Mega Key is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TBoard free?
TBoard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mega Key or TBoard?
TBoard is rated higher. Mega Key averages 3.9 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while TBoard averages 4.2 from 5 ratings.
Do Mega Key or TBoard have ads?
Neither Mega Key nor TBoard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mega Key or TBoard?
Mega Key ships an update every 6 months, and TBoard every 2 days. Most recently, Mega Key was updated on November 4, 2026 and TBoard on October 31, 2026.

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