Comparison

SweetKeyboard Pro vs Quick Kibo

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

Head to head
About

SweetKeyboard Pro

Enhance your typing with a familiar QWERTY layout, a permanent number row, and quick access to symbols. This keyboard offers smarter cursor control, context-aware shortcuts, and reusable text snippets for efficient input. It prioritizes privacy with local-first design and no cloud sync.

Highlights
  • Permanent top number row
  • One-page symbol access
  • Dedicated arrow keys and swipe cursor control
  • Context-aware shortcuts
  • Long-press accents and punctuation
  • Save and reuse up to 50 text snippets
  • Local clipboard integration
Features
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SweetKeyboard: Fast, Familiar, and Private Typing SweetKeyboard is a local-first iOS keyboard that keeps numbers, symbols, cursor movement, and reusable clipboard snippets close to the typing flow without forcing users to learn an unfamiliar layout. Built for quick edits, codes, forms, and repeated snippets, it delivers a familiar typing experience with smarter everyday controls. EVERYTHING YOU NEED IN ONE PLACE • Numbers Stay Visible: The familiar English QWERTY letter layout features a permanent top number row from 1 to 0, reducing interruptions while you type codes, dates, and addresses. • Symbols in One Place: Symbols are grouped on one clean page, designed to avoid deep symbol switching. Tap one symbol and return to letters, or lock symbols when you need to type multiple characters or emojis. • Smarter Cursor Control: Move the cursor without fighting the iOS text magnifier using dedicated arrow keys or speed-aware horizontal swiping across the keyboard. • Context-Aware Typing: SweetKeyboard adapts to the field you are typing in. For example, the keyboard shows a contextual @ shortcut in email fields and suppresses unwanted auto-capitalization. • Long-Press Shortcuts: Hold supported keys for common accents and quick punctuation, keeping the main keyboard free of visual clutter. • Fast Typing Stability: Designed for stable everyday typing, even when you move quickly and your fingers overlap. • Forward Delete: Turn on forward delete, then use manual Shift to delete ahead of the cursor. • Save and Reuse Snippets: Access a local clipboard grid inside the keyboard to save up to 50 local text snippets. • Pin Favorites: Pin favorites so important snippets stay at the top of your list for quick, one-tap pasting. • Native Clipboard Integration: Choose how SweetKeyboard handles text copied to the native iPhone Clipboard. You can import, paste, or do both after initiating a user action. • Clear Text Field: Easily clear short fields directly from the compact keyboard toolbar. CUSTOMIZABLE TO YOUR PREFERENCES Your typing experience should fit your needs. Easily configure settings in the app, including optional haptic feedback for responsive keys, auto-capitalization rules, cursor swipe behaviors, and custom clipboard toolbar options. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT, LOCAL BY DESIGN Privacy is a central product value, not a secondary note. • There are no analytics, no advertising SDKs, no tracking SDKs, and no cloud sync. • SweetKeyboard features no remote text processing or keystroke uploading. A NOTE ON CLIPBOARD FEATURES AND "FULL ACCESS" To enable the optional clipboard features, iOS requires you to grant "Full Access". This simply gives the keyboard the necessary permissions to interact with the phone's native clipboard tools and shared local settings. This does not mean we have access to your data. Because SweetKeyboard is local by design with no cloud sync or remote processing, your typing, snippets, and clipboard history remain completely local to your device and are never compromised. Platform Limitations: Some features depend on what the active app exposes to third-party keyboards. Secure text fields and certain apps may use the system keyboard instead. Clear Text Field works best in short fields and may be limited in long documents.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Customizable themes and keycaps
  • Mechanical and melodic key sounds
  • Reactive RGB backlight
  • Intelligent typing suggestions
  • Multilingual support
  • Saved phrases and fancy text styles
Features
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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/

Screenshots

SweetKeyboard Pro4 screens
Quick Kibo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SweetKeyboard Pro at none against Quick Kibo's 4. SweetKeyboard Pro also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). Quick Kibo's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.4). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Quick Kibo sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. SweetKeyboard Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SweetKeyboard Pro against 5.0 for Quick Kibo. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SweetKeyboard Pro ships an update every 4 months, Quick Kibo every 8 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
SweetKeyboard Pro versus Quick Kibo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSweetKeyboard ProQuick Kibo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.417.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB345 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid DemriWeiyanda (Shanghai) Information Technology Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

SweetKeyboard Pro

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Quick Kibo

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

SweetKeyboard Pro

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Quick Kibo

Subscriptions3
  • Kibo Pro Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Kibo Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Kibo Pro Yearly$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Kibo Pro$199.99

Questions

Is SweetKeyboard Pro free?
SweetKeyboard Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Quick Kibo free?
Quick Kibo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SweetKeyboard Pro or Quick Kibo?
SweetKeyboard Pro and Quick Kibo are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do SweetKeyboard Pro or Quick Kibo have ads?
Neither SweetKeyboard Pro nor Quick Kibo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SweetKeyboard Pro or Quick Kibo?
SweetKeyboard Pro ships an update every 4 months, and Quick Kibo every 8 days. Most recently, SweetKeyboard Pro was updated on October 31, 2026 and Quick Kibo on October 31, 2026.

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