Fade vs NuKey
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fade
Instantly generate temporary email addresses to sign up for services without revealing your personal inbox. Protect yourself from spam and unwanted marketing by using disposable emails that automatically discard messages after a short period. The app offers real-time notifications and one-tap code copying for verification.
- Instant temporary email address generation
- One-tap address and code copying
- Real-time push notifications for new mail
- Automatic verification code detection
- Disposable inboxes to avoid spam
- Attachments support
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Every site wants your email before it will show you anything. Some sell it. Some leak it. Most never stop mailing you. Fade gives you one to hand over instead. Open the app and a working address is already waiting. Sign up, take your code, walk away. Nothing traces back to you. WHAT YOU ACTUALLY GET Your real inbox stays clean Hand out a Fade address instead of your own. The spam, the "exclusive offers" and the breach notifications all land somewhere you will never have to look again. Your code, not an ad No full-screen video standing between you and your own mail. The inbox is open before you finish reading this sentence. The code copies itself Fade finds the verification code in the message and puts a one-tap Copy button at the top of it. No scrolling, no squinting, no dragging a cursor across six digits. You know the second mail lands Real-time push notifications, not a refresh button you keep tapping. Nothing about you is required No account. No phone number. No name. Nothing to leak, because nothing was collected. FADE PRO Every other temp mail address expires and takes your logins with it. These do not. - Up to 5 reserved addresses that never expire while your subscription is active - 90 days of mail history on Fade, then kept on your iPhone (free mail is gone in 15 minutes) - Custom address: choose your own username and domain - No ads anywhere in the app FREE, AND STAYING FREE - A working address the moment you open the app - One-tap copy for the address and for the code - Push notifications the second new mail arrives - Automatic OTP and verification code detection - Several inboxes running at once - Attachments you can open and save - A choice of domains - Full dark mode, Dynamic Type and VoiceOver support Getting an address and getting your code is free and always will be. It is never behind the paywall and never behind an ad. WHEN YOU REACH FOR IT - A free trial you would rather not tie to your real inbox - A download, a Wi-Fi portal or a coupon wall that demands an email first - Testing the signup and email flow of your own product - Keeping marketing spam out of the inbox that actually matters - Any form that insists on a real address when a throwaway will do Get the address. Get the code. Move on. Privacy policy: https://fade.email/privacy Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Fade Pro is offered as a weekly or annual auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is switched off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase.
NuKey
Personalize your typing experience with custom colors, key styles, and animated lighting. Choose from a variety of mechanical switch sounds to enhance your typing feel. Save and share your unique keyboard designs with others.
- Custom keyboard designs
- Ready-made themes
- Animated lighting effects
- Mechanical switch sounds
- Personalized key legends
- Emoji browsing
- Shareable designs
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NuKey transforms your iPhone keyboard into a personalised typing experience that looks, sounds and feels like your own. Create a custom keyboard by choosing colours, key styles, legends and animated lighting effects. Add satisfying mechanical switch sounds inspired by popular switch types, then preview your creation before you start typing. Features include: • Build and save custom keyboard designs • Choose from ready-made themes • Add animated keyboard lighting effects • Enjoy a collection of mechanical switch sounds • Personalise key legends and layouts • Browse and type emoji with ease • Add your own words for a more personal typing experience • Select your preferred keyboard language • Share keyboard designs using QR codes • Preview sounds and themes inside the app Whether you prefer a clean, understated keyboard or something colourful and expressive, NuKey gives you the tools to make every tap your own. Some themes, sounds and customisation features may require NuKey Pro.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Fade at 100% against NuKey's 62%. Fade also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.4). NuKey's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Fade sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and NuKey sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fade holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NuKey has 50 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Fade's written reviews are positive against 62% of NuKey's.
Fade ships an update weekly, NuKey every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fade | NuKey |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (7 ratings) — better | 4.4 (50 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 61.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 50 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Mohit Gaddam | Sean Kelly |
Customer experience
Fade
NuKey
In-app purchases
Fade
- Fade Pro Weekly$2.997 Days
- Fade Pro Yearly$24.991 Year
- Fade Pro Yearly1 Year trial$24.991 Year
- Fade Pro Lifetime$39.99
- Fade Pro Lifetime$59.99
NuKey
- Nice One$1.99
- Very Kind$4.99
- NuKey Pro$8.99
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- Legend$9.99









