Comparison

FluentKey AI Keyboard vs Alcove

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

Head to head
About

FluentKey AI Keyboard

Features
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FluentKey AI Keyboard helps you write faster, clearer, and more confidently in any app. Translate text, improve grammar, rewrite messages, generate smart replies, and adjust tone instantly with AI-powered assistance directly from your keyboard. KEY FEATURES • AI Keyboard Integration Access FluentKey AI directly from your system keyboard. Translate, rewrite, correct grammar, and generate smart replies without leaving your current app. • AI Translation Translate text across multiple languages while preserving context and meaning. • Smart Reply Generate intelligent replies based on the conversation context. Respond faster to messages, emails, and chats with a single tap. • AI Rewrite Make your writing clearer, more professional, or more natural with a single tap. • Grammar Correction Fix grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure instantly. • Tone Adjustment Choose the writing style that fits your situation: * Professional * Friendly * Formal * Casual * Polite * Confident • AI Keyboard Access AI features directly while typing in Messages, Mail, Notes, social media apps, and more. • Fast AI Assistance Get AI-powered suggestions and responses without switching between apps. PREMIUM FEATURES Upgrade to FluentKey AI Premium to unlock: • Unlimited AI generations • Smart Reply suggestions • Advanced writing assistance • Faster responses • Future premium features PRIVACY FIRST FluentKey AI only processes text when you explicitly request AI assistance. We do not collect or store your personal conversations. Download FluentKey AI today and communicate with confidence. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/fluent-key-ai/home

About

Alcove

Features
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Alcove is a calm to-do list, daily planner and notes app, free to use. Capture tasks in plain words, plan your week on a calendar, keep notes that do the maths, record meetings into notes with a summary, and move work along on kanban boards. Tick tasks off from a widget, and with Alcove Unlock find the same lists on your Mac and iPad. FREE TO USE, FOR GOOD Tasks and reminders without limits, Today, Upcoming and the calendar, quick add, widgets, notes and the Notifications page are free, with three lists and three meeting recordings. No account, no ads and no subscription. TYPE IT THE WAY YOU'D SAY IT Write "Call mum Friday 6pm" or "Stand-up every weekday 9:30 15m /Work" and Alcove picks out the day, time, length, repeat, priority, list and tags as you type. On the Mac, press Option-Space from any app to add a task. MEETINGS, WRITTEN UP Press Record when a meeting starts. On the Mac, Alcove hears your microphone and the call, so it works with any call app, with no bot joining. On iPhone and iPad it records the room. When you stop, you get a note with the recording, the transcript with who said what, and a summary with the decisions and action items, ready to become tasks, where Apple Intelligence supports the language. Speech is transcribed on your device, in more than a dozen languages including Malayalam, Hindi and Tamil, written in their own script. Meeting notes need macOS 26 or iOS 26. PLAN YOUR DAY AND WEEK • Today, Upcoming and a calendar with an hour grid and an all-day row • Drag a task to a new time or day • Repeating tasks for any rhythm: every few days, weeks, months or years, chosen weekdays, or counted from when you finished REMINDERS AS LOUD AS THE TASK Pick quiet, a notification, or an alarm. On iPhone with iOS 26, an alarm rings through silent mode and Focus, with Stop and Snooze. Mark a task done right from its reminder, and look back on every reminder, and anything you missed, on the Notifications page. NOTES THAT DO THE MATHS Headings, checklists, code, quotes and tables, written with Markdown shortcuts. End a line with = and it's worked out, and tables add up their own totals. Turn any checklist line into a task. KANBAN BOARDS Lay tasks out in To do, Doing and Done, or columns of your own. Tasks stay in their lists and in Today, and a card dropped in Done is finished everywhere. WIDGETS, SIRI AND SHORTCUTS • Widgets for the Home Screen, Lock Screen and Mac desktop, with tasks you can tick without opening the app • Controls for Control Center and the Lock Screen • Siri adds tasks, reads out your day and takes notes, and Shortcuts actions build your own automations MADE FOR THE MAC A menu bar list with a live count, a main window with a sidebar of every list, board and note, floating windows that stay on top, and keyboard shortcuts throughout. AI assistants can work with your tasks too, only once you turn them on, only with the permissions you approve, and every call is logged. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account to create, no ads and no tracking. Your tasks and notes stay on your devices and in your own iCloud. AND THE DETAILS • 100 steps of undo, and six months of history for every task • Search across tasks, notes, tags and attachments • Lists with colours and icons, folders and tags • Nine accents and eight papers, in light and dark ALCOVE UNLOCK: ONE PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION One purchase unlocks everything on your Mac, iPhone and iPad: unlimited lists and folders, boards, iCloud sync, unlimited meeting notes, alarm reminders, Siri and Shortcuts, Speak tasks, AI assistants, files on tasks, floating windows and every theme. Try it all free for 14 days first if you like. When a trial ends, Alcove goes back to the free version and nothing you made is lost. Family Sharing included. Privacy Policy: https://alcovetasks.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

FluentKey AI Keyboard4 screens
Alcove4 screens

Verdict

The call

FluentKey AI Keyboard and Alcove are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. FluentKey AI Keyboard sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Alcove sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
FluentKey AI Keyboard versus Alcove: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFluentKey AI KeyboardAlcove
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.4
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB66 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBui Van ThienMuhammed Basil E

In-app purchases

3 purchases

FluentKey AI Keyboard

Subscriptions2
  • FluentKeyAI Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • FluentKeyAI Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • FluentKeyAI Pro Lifetime$29.99
2 purchases

Alcove

One-time2
  • 14-day TrialFree
  • Alcove Unlock$14.99

Questions

Is FluentKey AI Keyboard free?
FluentKey AI Keyboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Alcove free?
Alcove is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FluentKey AI Keyboard or Alcove have ads?
Neither FluentKey AI Keyboard nor Alcove shows ads.

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