BearTube vs Skeyboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BearTube
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BearTube is a small browser extension to make the drive-by YouTube experience more 2005 than 2025. It puts the video front and center, adhering to the design ethos best expressed by Terry Tate - "condense the nonsense".
Skeyboard
Create personalized keyboard layouts for your iPhone and iPad. Move, resize, and customize keys, add symbols, and change themes. Optimize typing for portrait mode on tablets and easily share your custom designs.
- Customizable key placement and resizing
- Portrait mode optimization for iPads
- Add punctuation and symbols to QWERTY
- Customizable symbol layer
- Theme color customization
- Export and import layouts
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Skeyboard lets you make custom layouts for your keyboard on iPad and iPhone, moving and resizing keys anywhere, not constrained to a grid. It allows you to easily type with your thumbs on an iPad while holding the iPad in portrait mode. Layouts can be exported and reimported. Add punctuation and symbols freely to the qwerty layout if you don't want to switch to the punctuation layer. The symbol layer can be customized, and you can customize your keyboard's theme colors as well. Landscape and portrait mode layouts are loaded and saved separately but can be imported back and forth too.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BearTube at none against Skeyboard's 1. BearTube also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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. Skeyboard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BearTube asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | BearTube | Skeyboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lazy Bear Labs LLC | David Gu |
In-app purchases
BearTube
No in-app purchases
Skeyboard
- Skeyboard - Full Version$4.99
