Comparison

Typelet vs Stud Finder App

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

Head to head
About

Typelet

This app provides a custom keyboard to quickly insert pre-saved text templates into any application. Organize your frequently used phrases, addresses, or scripts with custom folders and access them with a single tap, saving you time on repetitive typing.

Highlights
  • Create and manage reusable text templates
  • Organize templates with custom folders
  • Insert templates in any app via custom keyboard
  • Variable interpolation for dynamic content (Pro)
  • Home screen widgets for quick access
  • Data export and import functionality
Read full description

Stop retyping the same messages. Typelet puts saved replies, signatures, addresses, prompts, and other reusable text directly inside a custom keyboard, ready to insert in any app with one tap. Save it once. Organize it your way. Use it wherever you type, without switching apps or searching through Notes. SAVE REUSABLE TEXT - Create quick replies, canned responses, email templates, signatures, addresses, links, prompts, and frequently used phrases - Organize templates into folders with custom icons and colors - Search, edit, pin, and manually arrange templates in the main app - Select multiple templates to move or delete them together INSERT FROM THE TYPELET KEYBOARD - Open Typelet from any text field that supports third-party keyboards - Browse templates by folder and tap once to insert - Keep pinned templates at the top and use the same custom order in the app and keyboard - Choose a keyboard theme that fits your style DYNAMIC VARIABLES - Automatically insert the current date, time, long date, ISO date, tomorrow, or next week - Add weekday names and time-aware greetings in English, French, or Dutch - Create saved values for reusable details such as your name, email, company, or signature - Add custom variables with default values for templates that need changing details WIDGETS AND USAGE - View frequently used templates from small and medium Home Screen widgets - Tap a widget template to copy it for quick use - See total uses and weekly activity in the main app BACKUP AND RESTORE - Export your folders and templates as a JSON backup - Preview imports before changing your data - Merge adds missing records and updates matching records; Replace All replaces the active template and folder collection - Replace All first creates a local JSON safety copy; exports omit detailed insertion history and most preferences PRIVATE BY DESIGN - No account or cloud service is required - Templates are stored locally on your device - No third-party analytics or advertising SDKs - The Typelet keyboard uses Allow Full Access only to share your locally stored templates and usage records with the main app through Apple's App Group container - The keyboard makes no network requests, does not read the clipboard, and never records or uploads what you type HOW TO ENABLE THE KEYBOARD 1. Open Settings, then General, Keyboard, and Keyboards 2. Tap Add New Keyboard 3. Select Typelet 4. Tap Typelet and enable Allow Full Access for on-device template and usage synchronization 5. In any text field, long press the globe key and select Typelet FREE AND PRO The free version includes up to 10 templates and three starter folders, plus editing, deletion, manual ordering and batch management of existing templates. Typelet Pro unlocks: - Unlimited templates - Unlimited custom folders with icons and colors - Dynamic and saved variables - Template pinning - Keyboard themes - Import and export Choose a yearly auto-renewing subscription or a one-time Lifetime purchase. The app checks Apple's introductory-offer eligibility before displaying an available trial. The trial duration, subsequent price and billing period are shown before purchase. Existing monthly subscriptions remain supported, including renewals and Restore Purchases. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel a subscription in your App Store account settings. Pro access remains available until the end of the paid subscription period. Contact: captainlongevity@gmail.com Privacy Policy: https://app-legal-pages.vercel.app/typelet/privacy Terms of Service: https://app-legal-pages.vercel.app/typelet/terms

About

Stud Finder App

This tool uses your phone's magnetometer to detect metal objects within walls, such as nails, screws, pipes, and rebar. It offers different modes for finding studs or larger metal objects and can even overlay stud locations on your camera view in augmented reality.

Highlights
  • Magnetometer-based stud and metal detection
  • Multiple scan modes (Stud, Metal, Deep Scan Pro)
  • Augmented reality wall view (Pro)
  • Haptic and sound alerts
  • Live field strength readings
  • Calibration to your environment
  • Save and review past scans
Features
Read full description

Find the stud before you drill. Stud Finder turns your iPhone's built-in magnetometer into a magnetic stud finder. It picks up the steel nails and screws that hold drywall to the studs, and warns you about the pipes, rebar and conduit you don't want to hit. Lay your phone flat on the wall, let it calibrate, then slide it slowly. The gauge climbs as you get closer to metal, and the scanner lights up, beeps and buzzes when it finds something. THREE SCAN MODES Stud Mode: Tuned for the small, brief signal of a nail or screw. Follow the line of fasteners to find the stud. Metal Mode: Less sensitive, so only larger metal like pipes, plates and steel studs stands out. A line of nails won't set it off, so you can tell a fastener from a pipe. Deep Scan (Pro): The most sensitive mode, for fasteners set deeper in the wall that Stud Mode can pass right over. WALL VIEW (PRO) Found one stud? Point your camera at the wall and Wall View draws a line on it in AR, then marks where the next studs should be at your stud spacing: 16 or 24 inches, or 40 or 60 cm. Slide your phone onto a predicted line to check it, and tap to confirm. Predicted lines are estimates. Doubled studs around doors, windows and corners can break the pattern, so check each one with the scanner before you drill. FEATURES • Calibrates against your own wall, so readings fit the room • Live field strength in microtesla (µT) or milligauss (mG) • Low, normal and high sensitivity • Haptic and sound alerts: one beep for a possible stud, three for metal • Save scans and look back at them later • Keep the screen awake while you scan • A step-by-step guide that walks you through hanging a shelf, from the first stud to the last screw • Available in 13 languages FREE AND PRO Stud Mode, Metal Mode and calibration are free. The free plan includes 3 scans of up to a minute each. After that, watch a short ad for another scan, as often as you like. You can keep up to 5 saved scans. Stud Finder Pro adds: • Deep Scan • Wall View • Unlimited scans with no time limit and no ads • Unlimited saved scans If your plan starts with a free trial, we'll remind you two days before it ends. HOW IT WORKS, AND WHAT IT CAN'T DO We want you to know exactly what you're getting. Your phone's magnetometer senses magnetic fields, so it detects ferrous metal: steel nails, screws, pipes, rebar and conduit. Wood isn't magnetic, and no phone can detect it directly. Stud Finder finds studs the way a magnetic stud finder does, by finding the metal fasteners holding them in place. That's why the app reports what it finds by signal strength instead of claiming to identify materials. If a reading in Stud Mode is unusually strong, it tells you it's likely metal rather than a stud. Results depend on your device's magnetometer, the wall material and how deep the metal is. Detection is less reliable through thick plaster, tile, concrete or metal lath. Always check before you drill, and never rely on any app alone where there may be electrical wiring or plumbing. SUBSCRIPTIONS Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm your purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. PRIVACY Your saved scans are stored on your device. Privacy Policy: https://redizeuz.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://redizeuz.com/terms

Screenshots

Typelet4 screens
Stud Finder App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Typelet at none against Stud Finder App's shown. Typelet also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Stud Finder App's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.0). On price, ratings volume, 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. Typelet sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Stud Finder App sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Stud Finder App holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Typelet's written reviews are positive against 80% of Stud Finder App's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Typelet ships an update every 6 days, Stud Finder App every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Typelet versus Stud Finder App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTypeletStud Finder App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings)4.4 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better80.0% of reviews
Number of ratings45 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer慧慧 高Ebenezer Oteng

Customer experience

Typelet

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Stud Finder App

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Typelet

Subscriptions2
  • Typelet Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Typelet Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$39.99
2 purchases

Stud Finder App

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$7.99

Questions

Is Typelet free?
Typelet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stud Finder App free?
Stud Finder App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Typelet or Stud Finder App?
Stud Finder App is rated higher. Typelet averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Stud Finder App averages 4.4 from 5 ratings.
Do Typelet or Stud Finder App have ads?
Stud Finder App shows ads; Typelet does not.
Which is updated more often, Typelet or Stud Finder App?
Typelet ships an update every 6 days, and Stud Finder App every 2 months. Most recently, Typelet was updated on October 31, 2026 and Stud Finder App on November 10, 2026.

Other comparisons