Comparison

Quick Kibo vs BasedApp

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

Head to head
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/

About

BasedApp

This app provides a private space to work through important decisions, helping you slow down, articulate your thoughts, and clearly see trade-offs. It offers tools for comparing options, building a habit of reflection, and optionally using AI for insights.

Highlights
  • Create decision journeys
  • Compare paths and options
  • Review practical summaries
  • Build a habit of reflection
  • Private by default, no account needed
  • Optional AI assistance
Features
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BasedApp is a private, thoughtful space for working through the decisions that matter to you. Whether you are considering a career move, a relationship choice, a personal goal, or a change in direction, BasedApp helps you slow down, put your thoughts into words, and see the trade-offs more clearly. CREATE A DECISION JOURNEY Start with the decision you are facing, define what success would look like, and name the values, fears, and assumptions shaping your choice. COMPARE THE PATHS Add the options you are considering, estimate your risk and confidence, and explore structured comparisons designed to support your own judgment. SEE YOUR REFLECTION CLEARLY Review a practical summary, trade-offs, option paths, a signal map, and simple heuristic scores. These are tools for reflection, not predictions or recommendations. BUILD A HABIT OF REFLECTION Use guided Coach prompts to think in writing. BasedApp can surface themes from your reflections and bring them into a new decision when you choose. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your decisions, reflections, preferences, and saved analyses stay on your iPhone. No account is required and BasedApp does not provide cloud sync for your decision data. You can delete individual decisions or clear all local data at any time. OPTIONAL AI ASSISTANCE AI-generated insights are available only when you explicitly tap Generate insight or Generate insights. The app sends only the text needed for that request to the BasedApp AI service and its configured AI provider. You can always continue with the on-device heuristic instead. BasedApp is for structured reflection and personal planning. It does not provide medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice.

Screenshots

Quick Kibo4 screens
BasedApp3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BasedApp at none against Quick Kibo's 4. BasedApp also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Quick Kibo's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. BasedApp 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 Quick Kibo against 5.0 for BasedApp. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quick Kibo ships an update weekly, BasedApp every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Quick Kibo versus BasedApp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick KiboBasedApp
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size348 MB1 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperWeiyanda (Shanghai) Information Technology Co., Ltd.Cooper Langford

Customer experience

Quick Kibo

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

BasedApp

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Quick Kibo

Subscriptions3
  • Quick Kibo Pro Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Kibo Pro Monthly3 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Kibo Pro Yearly$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Kibo Pro$199.99
None

BasedApp

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Quick Kibo free?
Quick Kibo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BasedApp free?
BasedApp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Quick Kibo or BasedApp?
Quick Kibo and BasedApp are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Quick Kibo or BasedApp have ads?
Neither Quick Kibo nor BasedApp shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quick Kibo or BasedApp?
Quick Kibo ships an update weekly, and BasedApp every 2 weeks. Most recently, Quick Kibo was updated on November 7, 2026 and BasedApp on October 31, 2026.

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