Internet Speed Limiter vs Shell Keyboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Internet Speed Limiter
Control your device's internet speed with this intuitive application. Create and manage custom speed profiles, monitor real-time data usage, and set per-app or per-IP limits. Automate speed adjustments based on location, time, or other triggers for efficient data management.
- One-click activation
- Custom speed profiles
- Real-time data usage monitoring
- Per-app/IP speed limits
- Data saving options
- Control Centre and Shortcuts integration
- Live Activity display
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Limit your internet speed using this simple app. * It's simple to use and activate in one click. You can also add and manage different speed profiles and switch between them seamlessly. * Internet Speed Limiter lets you throttle the bandwidth of your Apple Device. Finely control download and upload speed on your device. * It works by creating a local VPN that intelligently throttles all your internet traffic right on the device. Because the VPN is created and runs entirely locally, no data is ever sent to any third-party server. Your connection stays completely private. 100% safe and 100% under your control. * Real Time Internet Usage Analyse what service / IP is using more data with live history of entire Internet Traffic going through your device. Find out what are hidden services that use data in background. * Overrides - Per app, per website, and per IP limits Identify domains / services / IP address used by certain App from real time history and group them together into one app. Then put override on that entire app for limiting its upload or download speed. * Restrict - Stop an app, website or IP completely * Advance Data Saving Options - Track data usage and switch to slower speed or completely restrict internet on device after data allowance is used up. Get reminders about data usage. * Shortcuts, Control Centre and Automations Start or stop a speed profile from Control Centre, or start, stop, and switch profiles using the Shortcuts app. Trigger automatically by location (office, home, port, vessel), by time of day, or by any other Shortcut automation you already use. No need to open the app every time the network or other conditions should change. Use speed limiter smartly with complex shortcuts and automations to save even more data seamlessly. There is also a shortcut to trigger Live Activity that shows real time speed usage. * Live Activity on Dynamic Island and Lock Screen Live Activity puts your real-time download and upload speed on Dynamic Island and the Lock Screen. iOS has no built-in place that shows current internet speed while you use other apps. Only this app can pin that live rate on the Island and the lock screen, so you see usage without unlocking or opening Settings. Glance once, know how fast the phone is running, and catch a spike before it burns through your data. * Use Cases Developers can use it to simulate how real word speeds affect their apps, websites and services for iOS. They can also add latency to packets to simulate users. Seafarers, Mariners and other users for whom data is expensive and limited. Set a download and upload cap so streaming apps, social apps, and background updates uses less data instead of burning a prepaid SIM, roaming pack, shared hotspot, or shipboard allotment. For seafarers, mariners and anyone else on metered connection, crew WiFi, or a tight monthly plan - this limiter keeps email, messaging, and essential tools usable while one video stream no longer finishes the quota. Useful for Developers who want to Simulate and test their app or service under real speeds on iPhone or iPad itself without Mac, proxy or Network Link Conditioner. Choose any Data Speed, add latency and watch live throughput while every service on the device runs through that pipe. It’s useful for testing application behaviour under limited throughput, and getting a clearer picture of per-device or per-app bandwidth use. Developers and QA can troubleshoot timeouts, broken loaders, and poor offline behaviour on a physical iPhone, then turn the limiter off in one tap.
Shell Keyboard
This custom keyboard provides essential keys like Ctrl, Esc, and arrow keys that are missing from the standard iOS keyboard. It's designed for terminal applications, sending precise control codes and escape sequences for seamless command-line interaction on iOS and iPadOS devices.
- Dedicated terminal layer with Ctrl, Esc, Tab, arrow keys
- Ctrl and Alt as proper modifiers with lock functionality
- Full function-key layer (F1-F12)
- Configurable arrow key behavior for different apps
- Multiple keyboard layouts for iPad (60% and 75%)
- Seven customizable themes (light and dark)
- Privacy-focused, no Full Access required
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Shell Keyboard adds the keys a terminal actually needs — the ones iOS's default keyboard leaves out. Working over SSH or in a local shell needs Ctrl, Esc, Tab, arrow keys, and function keys, none of which exist on the standard iOS keyboard. Shell Keyboard is a custom keyboard built specifically for terminal apps like Blink, Termius, Prompt, a-Shell and iSH — it sends the exact ASCII control codes and ANSI/VT escape sequences your terminal expects, the same bytes a physical keyboard would send. NEW: IPHONE DUO Shell Keyboard supports iPhone Duo. Open it, and the keyboard spreads out into the same 60% and 75% layouts as iPad, 75% by default. Close it, and it's the iPhone keyboard again. It switches as you fold and unfold. A REAL KEYBOARD ON IPAD AND IPHONE DUO Choose a 60% or 75% layout, the compact keyboards terminal users already type on. The 75% layout puts Esc, F1–F12, a number row, Caps Lock, Home, End, Page Up, Page Down and inverted-T arrow keys on one screen, and Shift types the symbol printed on each key, just like a physical keyboard. The 60% layout keeps the function keys, navigation and arrows one fn press away. iPad opens in the 75% layout; the original ShellKey layout is one tap away in Settings. WHAT'S INCLUDED • A dedicated terminal layer: Ctrl, Alt, Esc, Tab, arrow keys, Home/End/PgUp/PgDn, and the punctuation a shell prompt uses constantly • Ctrl and Alt as proper modifiers — latch one for a single keypress, or double-tap to lock it on, like a hardware keyboard • A full function-key layer: tap fn and the top row becomes F1 through F12, while every other row stays exactly where it was • Arrow keys that match the app you're in — Normal for shells, Application for vim, tmux, less and htop, or Move the Cursor for ordinary text fields • Return or Enter: long-press the Return key to switch between a carriage return and a line feed • A plain QWERTY layer and a complete symbols layer, for ordinary text — hostnames, paths, commit messages — without leaving the keyboard • Seven themes — Shell, Ember, Glacier, Dusk, Moss, Void (pure black) and High Contrast — each in light and dark, and an Appearance option to keep the keyboard light or dark everywhere • On iPad and an open iPhone Duo, 60% and 75% layouts (75% by default), described above • A searchable reference inside the app, listing every key alongside the exact escape sequence and hex bytes it sends • Every key emits the exact byte sequence a real terminal expects SETTINGS LIVE IN THE KEYBOARD Touch and hold the key with the small gear (or tap the gear key on the 60% and 75% layouts) for Haptic feedback, Theme, Appearance and, on iPad and an open iPhone Duo, Layout. They live in the keyboard itself because, without Full Access, iOS keeps a keyboard and its app apart, and Shell Keyboard never asks for Full Access. BUILT FOR PRIVACY Shell Keyboard never asks for Full Access. It cannot reach the network. It never reads, stores, or transmits anything you type — every key it sends is decided from the key you tapped, and nothing else. No analytics, no crash reporting, no account. GOOD TO KNOW In a terminal or editor running inside a web browser — code-server, Jupyter and the like — the keys that send a multi-character escape sequence don't get through: the arrow keys, F1 through F12, Home, End, Page Up, Page Down, Shift+Tab and Alt combinations. Everything that sends a single byte works there normally, including every Ctrl combination, Esc, Tab, Return and ordinary typing. Web pages listen for key press events and iOS only lets a keyboard extension insert text, so this is an iOS limitation that applies to every third-party keyboard, not something an app can work around. WHO IT'S FOR Anyone who SSHes from an iPhone or iPad — sysadmins, developers, and anyone tired of missing Ctrl+C.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Shell Keyboard at $1.99 against Internet Speed Limiter's $19.99. Shell Keyboard also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 78%) and chart position (#11 vs #122). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Internet Speed Limiter costs $19.99 and Shell Keyboard $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Internet Speed Limiter against 5.0 for Shell Keyboard. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of Internet Speed Limiter's written reviews are positive against 100% of Shell Keyboard's.
Internet Speed Limiter ships an update every 9 days, Shell Keyboard every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Internet Speed Limiter | Shell Keyboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #122 | #11 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NeuralQuark | Nguyen Nguyen |
Customer experience
Internet Speed Limiter
Shell Keyboard
In-app purchases
Internet Speed Limiter
No in-app purchases
Shell Keyboard
No in-app purchases
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