SonicKeys vs Quick Kibo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SonicKeys
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Transform your iPhone typing experience with SonicKeys — a custom keyboard that plays satisfying mechanical keyboard, typewriter, and soft click sounds as you type. • 3 premium sound themes: Mechanical Keyboard, Typewriter, Soft Click • Instant playback with virtually zero latency • Haptic feedback support • Works in every app • No data collected — your keystrokes stay private Full Access is required only for audio playback. SonicKeys never records, stores, or transmits what you type.
Quick Kibo
Personalize your typing experience with customizable themes, keycaps, and mechanical sound effects. Enhance your typing with intelligent suggestions and multilingual support. Enjoy a visually and audibly unique keyboard.
- Customizable themes and keycaps
- Mechanical and melodic key sounds
- Reactive RGB backlight
- Intelligent typing suggestions
- Multilingual support
- Saved phrases and fancy text styles
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Quick Kibo turns the plain iOS keyboard into something that is actually yours: real mechanical key sounds, RGB backlight that reacts to your fingers, themes for every mood, and typing help that gets out of your way. THEMES THAT FOLLOW YOU EVERYWHERE Pick a skin and it comes with you into every app - messages, notes, search, all of it. Minimal light keyboards done properly. Deep darks. Soft cute pastels. Glowing neon. Gradients that shift across the keys. Loud, colorful pop. Turn on Shuffle and it is a different keyboard every time you open it. KEY CAPS YOU DESIGN YOURSELF Most keyboards let you change the background. Quick Kibo lets you change the keys. Pick a letterform - serif, mono, rounded, outlined, enclosed. Pick how the letters are inked - solid, outlined, shadowed, or a gradient running across the board. Then colour the caps themselves: the vowels, the home row, WASD, the function keys, or every key in a rainbow, in the color you choose. MECHANICAL AND MELODIC KEY SOUNDS Blue switches with the sharp click. Reds with the smooth press. Browns with the tactile bump. Deep thock. A real typewriter. A piano laid out across the keys, so typing left to right rises in pitch. Set the volume to taste, or turn it off entirely. RGB BACKLIGHT Light that answers your fingers: a glow under each press, a ripple that spreads, a trail that follows you across the keys, confetti, fire, rain, aurora. Or a calm breathing pulse. All drawn on the keyboard itself, all tunable. TYPING THAT ACTUALLY HELPS Word suggestions and corrections built on measured frequency, so the word you meant comes first and real typos get fixed. Next-word prediction that reads the sentence you are writing. Chinese pinyin with phrase and whole-sentence conversion, initial-only shorthand, and fuzzy spellings. Japanese kana to kanji. Korean Hangul assembly. Layouts for the languages people actually type in, and the globe key switches between the ones you turn on. EVERYTHING ELSE - Emoji, kaomoji and fancy text styles, latched so everything you type is transformed - Saved phrases you can paste in any app, and secure entries behind Face ID - Slide the space bar to move the cursor, press and hold for accents - A number row if you want one, and a punctuation set that matches your language - Insert the date, the time, or where you are, without leaving what you are writing - Your own photo as the keyboard background, with the keys tuned to let it through PRIVACY Quick Kibo has no servers, no accounts and no analytics. Nothing you type is collected, logged or transmitted - with Full Access on or off. Full Access is off by default and optional; it is used only for the clipboard buttons and the location key. Location is read only when you press that key and goes straight into your own text. Free to type in, forever. Pro is optional - subscribe weekly or yearly, or pay once and keep it forever. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SonicKeys at none against Quick Kibo's 4. SonicKeys also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 8 days). 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. Quick Kibo sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. SonicKeys asks for nothing beyond the download.
SonicKeys ships an update every 2 days, Quick Kibo every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SonicKeys | Quick Kibo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 345 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yongjun Hong | Weiyanda (Shanghai) Information Technology Co., Ltd. |
In-app purchases
SonicKeys
No in-app purchases
Quick Kibo
- Kibo Pro Weekly$2.997 Days
- Kibo Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
- Kibo Pro Yearly$49.991 Year
- Kibo Pro$199.99
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