Clink vs cryptoscreen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clink
This keyboard app offers extensive customization for appearance, layout, and typing experience. Enjoy unique visual themes, adjustable layouts, advanced swipe typing, and offline autocorrect. It also includes helpful tools like cursor control and a clipboard history.
- Liquid Glass visual theme
- Extensive theme editor
- Multiple keyboard layouts
- Split keyboard option
- Advanced swipe typing
- Offline autocorrect and predictions
- Cursor control via spacebar
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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/
cryptoscreen
This app creates secure, self-destructing notes that are encrypted locally before being shared. Both a link and a PIN are required to access the message, which is then deleted after a single successful read. It offers enhanced privacy features like screenshot detection.
- Local encryption before upload
- Link and PIN required for access
- One-time read deletion
- Screenshot detection
- Message destruction after failed PIN attempts
- Link expiration
- Encrypted image attachments (Pro)
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cryptoscreen is a private note app for messages that should not last. Write a note, choose a six-digit PIN, and cryptoscreen encrypts the message on your iPhone before it leaves the device. Share the generated link and send the PIN separately. The recipient can read it once in the iOS app, with an App Clip, or in a web browser when you allow web reading. No app download is needed for browser reading. CHOOSE HOW YOUR MESSAGE CAN BE READ Allow app and web reading for easier sharing, or choose app-only reading. Both the link and the PIN are required. Web-enabled messages are decrypted in the recipient's browser and become unavailable for another read after they are opened. ONE-TIME MESSAGES - Encrypt notes locally before upload. - Open normal messages once, then make them unavailable to other readers. - Destroy a message after the third wrong PIN attempt. - Let unopened links expire after the retention window. - Check availability in Sent Messages, including messages opened on the web. GUARDED READING ON iOS The iOS app and App Clip use a guarded reader to reduce casual screen exposure. The reader clears when iOS reports a screenshot. Screenshot protection is best-effort: iOS reports normal screenshots after capture. Browsers cannot provide the app's screenshot detection or capture protection, and no app can protect against external cameras or compromised devices. TEXT IS FREE. IMAGE SENDING IS PRO. Send text-only messages and read received text and images for free. Pro lets senders attach encrypted images. Restore purchases and manage your subscription from Settings. cryptoscreen does not require accounts, profiles, or contact lists. Messages are encrypted before upload; the service stores encrypted content and the metadata needed for expiry, PIN attempts, and message availability. Optional interaction-status sharing is off by default. Support: https://cryptoscreen.app/support Privacy Policy: https://cryptoscreen.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: cryptoscreen at 5.0 against Clink's 3.9. cryptoscreen also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and review sentiment (100% vs 74%). Clink's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (38 vs 1). 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. cryptoscreen asks for nothing beyond the download.
cryptoscreen holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clink has 38 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Clink's written reviews are positive against 100% of cryptoscreen's.
Clink ships an update every 3 days, cryptoscreen every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clink | cryptoscreen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (38 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 38 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 157 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | William Whitehouse | Domenico Marco Di Donna |
Customer experience
Clink
cryptoscreen
In-app purchases
Clink
- Clink Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Clink Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Clink Lifetime$14.99
cryptoscreen
No in-app purchases









