Comparison

Fidel Amharic Keyboard vs Fold

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

Head to head
About

Fidel Amharic Keyboard

Type Amharic quickly and accurately with smart suggestions and auto-correction. Enjoy a comfortable layout, transliteration support, and daily tips. Core features are free, with optional lifetime or weekly subscriptions for full access.

Highlights
  • Smart word suggestions
  • Auto-correction
  • Comfortable Amharic layout
  • Long press for related characters
  • Latin to Amharic transliteration
  • Daily tips and shortcuts
Features
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Type Amharic on your iPhone, properly. Fidel is a full Ethiopic keyboard for people who write in Amharic every day, not a transliteration trick bolted onto an English keyboard. It works in every app: Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram, Gmail, anywhere you type. FOUR LAYOUTS Pick the one that matches how you think. • Fidel, seven keys per row, tap any key to choose a character form • Compact, consonants with live vowel slots, a whole family one tap away • Ordered, the traditional Geez family order, laid out as you learned it • QWERTY Amharic, Ethiopic characters on the QWERTY positions you already know BUILT FOR THE SCRIPT • Press and hold any key for every form in that character family • Word suggestions as you type • The Ethiopian calendar date and time, right on the keyboard AMHARIC VOICE INPUT • Tap the microphone and speak Amharic • Your words return as Ethiopic text in the app you are using • Review suggested spelling alternatives for words that may need correction PREMIUM • Type "selam" in Latin and get the Amharic equivalent. • Personal word suggestions that learn the words you use every day • Auto-correction that fixes typos as you type • A dark keyboard theme • Continued Voice Input after the free dictations PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your typed keystrokes stay on your device. When you choose Voice Input, only that dictation recording is sent securely to the speech transcription service. The app deletes its temporary audio file after transcription. No accounts and no ads. Privacy Policy: https://addisstack.com/apps/fidel/privacy Terms of Use: https://addisstack.com/apps/fidel/terms

About

Fold

This app offers a private PDF toolkit for managing documents on your device. It allows you to scan, merge, split, organize, and extract text from PDFs, with advanced features available through a one-time purchase.

Highlights
  • Scan documents and create PDFs
  • Merge, split, and organize pages
  • Extract text and inspect details
  • Compress large PDFs
  • Add watermarks and page numbers
  • Redact sensitive content
  • Summarize documents
Features
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Every PDF you need, on your phone — and nowhere else. Fold is a private PDF toolkit for iPhone and iPad. Open a document, do the job, and share the result. No account. No upload step. The work stays on your device. THE EVERYDAY TOOLS, FREE - View, merge, split, organize, and rotate pages - Scan documents and turn images into PDFs - Extract text and inspect document details - Check for cover-ups that still leave selectable text behind POWER TOOLS WITH FOLD PRO One lifetime purchase unlocks the heavy lifting: - Compress large PDFs down to a shareable size - Add watermarks, page numbers, headers, and footers - Edit document details and fill PDF forms - Export to images, Word documents, and spreadsheets - Create PDFs from HTML - Redact sensitive content with flattened, automatically verified output - Make archival-style copies for long-term storage - Summarize documents and ask questions on supported devices BUILT AROUND YOUR FILES Outputs land in Recents, so you can reopen, preview, and share without digging through temporary folders. Everything stays close to the file it came from. HONEST BY DESIGN School forms, contracts, receipts, client packets, scans, board documents — Fold is built for that reality. It is quiet, local, and honest about exactly what each tool does. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No ads. No uploads. Your documents never leave your device unless you choose to share them. Do the job, keep it private. Download Fold.

Screenshots

Fidel Amharic Keyboard3 screens
Fold4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Fold at 5.0 against Fidel Amharic Keyboard's 4.6. Fidel Amharic Keyboard's advantage is ratings volume (21 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Fidel Amharic Keyboard sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Fold sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fold holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fidel Amharic Keyboard has 21 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Fidel Amharic Keyboard versus Fold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFidel Amharic KeyboardFold
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (21 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings21 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTeklie Belay BzunehRene DeAnda

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Fidel Amharic Keyboard

Subscriptions2
  • Fidel Premium$1.997 Days
  • Fidel Premium Annual$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Fidel Premium Lifetime$49.99
1 purchases

Fold

One-time1
  • Fold Pro Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Fidel Amharic Keyboard free?
Fidel Amharic Keyboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fold free?
Fold is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Fidel Amharic Keyboard or Fold?
Fold is rated higher. Fidel Amharic Keyboard averages 4.6 out of 5 from 21 ratings, while Fold averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Fidel Amharic Keyboard or Fold have ads?
Neither Fidel Amharic Keyboard nor Fold shows ads.

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