Cloudless vs Clink
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cloudless
This app offers private voice dictation with 100% on-device AI. It transcribes speech in real-time, automatically cleans up text with smart punctuation and formatting, and ensures your voice never leaves your phone. It works across all your favorite apps and supports over 25 languages.
- 100% on-device AI
- Real-time voice transcription
- Smart text cleanup (punctuation, formatting)
- Privacy-focused, no data sent
- Full-featured keyboard
- 25+ languages supported
- Transcript history
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Cloudless is the private alternative to paid voice dictation apps. 100% on-device AI — no subscription, no cloud, no one listening. Paying monthly just to dictate? Cloudless does everything the expensive apps do, without sending your voice to a server or charging you a cent. VOICE TRANSCRIPTION Tap the microphone and speak. Cloudless transcribes in real time using a local AI model that runs entirely on your device — no internet required. SMART CLEANUP Basic dictation just transcribes. Cloudless makes it ready to send. Our on-device AI automatically polishes every transcript: removes filler words (um, uh), fixes punctuation, formats numbers, emails, times, and lists. Fully customizable. PRIVACY FIRST All processing happens on your device. No audio is recorded, stored, or sent anywhere. Your voice never leaves your phone. FULL-FEATURED KEYBOARD • AZERTY & QWERTY layouts • Emoji keyboard with recent emojis • Hold space bar to move cursor • One-hand mode • Accent support with long press 25+ LANGUAGES Dictate in your language. More added on request. TRANSCRIPT HISTORY View and manage all your past transcripts in one place. WORKS EVERYWHERE Use Cloudless in any app — Messages, Notes, Mail, WhatsApp, and more. Switch to Cloudless and start typing or dictating instantly.
Clink
Customize your typing experience with a wide array of themes, fonts, and layouts. Personalize key appearance, sounds, and add useful tools like a calculator and notepad directly to your keyboard.
- Extensive theme customization
- Multiple keyboard layouts
- Customizable key sounds and haptics
- Integrated notepad and calculator
- Offline autocorrect and prediction
- Clipboard history
- Language packs
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Clink is a custom keyboard for iPhone and iPad. Choose how it looks, arrange the keys, change the sounds and keep useful tools close to where you type. Start with a preset you like, or make a keyboard of your own. Choose a simple theme, metal keys, raised 3D keycaps or translucent Liquid Glass. Change colours, fonts, gradients, outlines and key shapes. Set separate themes for Light and Dark Mode. The live preview lets you type while you make changes. Add a photo background or put artwork on individual keys, with framing controls to get the placement right. Canvas mode lets you edit each key. Export your theme to share it, or import one someone else has made. Choose QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ, Dvorak or a layout for your language. Try Clink Flow for two thumbs. Add a number row, use a split keyboard or switch to one-handed mode. Adjust height, width and spacing, and add custom keys and rows for text or functions. Tap or swipe to type. Two-thumb word composition lets either hand continue the same word, combining taps and glides. Keep a simple swipe trail or choose one with colour, sparks or a comet tail. Autocomplete, autocorrect and swipe decoding work on your device, without an internet connection. Clink can learn your words and the corrections you reject; learning can be switched off or reset. Text replacements, smart punctuation and automatic capitals help with everyday typing. Use combined suggestions for multiple languages or keep them separate. Clink includes Japanese kana, Chinese Pinyin and Korean input, with language packs available to download. Features depend on the language and installed resources. Slide on the spacebar to move the cursor, or use trackpad mode for more control. Adjust sensitivity and activation timing to suit your hands. Predictive flick lets you accept suggestions directly from the keys. Clipboard history keeps saved clips in groups. The notepad holds text you want to use again, and the calculator handles quick sums and conversions. Find emoji with search, recent choices and skin tones. Arrange the panels around what you use. Use dictation when you would rather speak, handwriting to write with your finger, or translation to prepare text in another language. Supported translation works offline after its resources are downloaded. Dictation may use Apple's speech services. On compatible devices, writing tools use Apple's on-device models to proofread, rewrite, shorten, expand or summarise text. Change the tone or prepare a reply, then review it before use. Apple Intelligence support and downloaded models are required. Choose a system click or sound pack, set the volume and tune the haptics. Adjust how keys move and respond. Add lighting, stickers or a small pet that reacts as you type. Save setups as profiles and switch between them from the keyboard. Optional iCloud sync carries profiles and custom themes between devices. Text clipboard history and learned vocabulary sync are separate choices, both off by default. Build custom actions for repeated tasks or write a panel using the built-in Python subset. Add compatible theme, layout, font and sound packs to extend your setup. No Clink account, ads or cross-app tracking. Ordinary typing does not send your text to a server. Core typing works without Full Access; clipboard access, haptics, custom sounds and shared settings use that permission. Downloads, purchases, iCloud and some speech features need a connection. Requires iOS 17 or later. Liquid Glass, translation and Apple Intelligence features depend on your iOS version, device, language and available resources. Setup walks you through adding Clink in iOS Settings. Switch to it with the globe key wherever custom keyboards are supported. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cloudless at none against Clink's 3. Cloudless also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 74%) and rating (4.3 vs 4.0). Clink's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days) and ratings volume (46 vs 4). On price, ads, device support 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
Both are free to download. Clink sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Cloudless asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cloudless holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clink has 46 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Cloudless's written reviews are positive against 74% of Clink's.
Cloudless ships an update every 10 days, Clink every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cloudless | Clink |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) — better | 4.0 (46 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 74.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 46 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 258 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Synth Exploration | William Whitehouse |
Customer experience
Cloudless
Clink
In-app purchases
Cloudless
No in-app purchases
Clink
- Clink Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Clink Yearly7 Days trial$4.991 Year
- Clink Lifetime$9.99









