Comparison

Custom Keyboard vs TypeGlow

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

Head to head
About

Custom Keyboard

Personalize your typing experience with custom photos, animated backgrounds, and diverse language layouts. Enhance your keyboard with unique sounds, haptics, and advanced features like swipe typing and Quick Phrases.

Highlights
  • Personal photo backgrounds
  • Animated GIF/APNG/WebP/video backgrounds
  • 20+ language layouts
  • Swipe typing and autocorrection
  • Custom key sounds and haptics
  • Quick Phrases and Personal Dictionary
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Keyboard Studio turns your iPhone keyboard into a typing experience that feels truly yours. Customize your keyboard with personal photos, beautiful themes, key transparency, sounds and haptics. Bring your keyboard to life with animated backgrounds using GIF, APNG, animated WebP or video. Type in 20+ languages with layouts designed for each language, including Japanese Kana Flick, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese Telex, Cyrillic keyboards, German QWERTZ and more. Supported Latin languages also include Swipe typing, local suggestions and autocorrection. Quick ABC lets you switch to English and back without changing your main language. Free includes all typing languages, core keyboard customization, the first three themes, default sound and standard haptics. Pro unlocks premium themes, personal photo backgrounds, dynamic backgrounds, 6 premium key sounds, Strong haptics, Quick Phrases editing and Personal Dictionary editing. Eligible users can try Pro free for 3 days. Lifetime Pro is available as a one-time purchase. No subscription.

About

TypeGlow

Features
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TypeGlow turns your iPhone keyboard into something worth showing off. Browse a gallery of hand-picked keyboard themes across Anime, Gaming, and OLED collections, then make each one yours. Tune key opacity, background dim, key shapes, colors and gradients, and even the key font all previewed live before you apply. Bring your typing to life with 50+ key sounds and custom haptics, from clean mechanical clicks to playful pops. FEATURES • A growing gallery of premium keyboard themes • Deep customization: opacity, dim, key shape, colors, gradients, fonts • 50+ key press sounds and adjustable haptics • Live keyboard preview while you customize • Light and dark app appearance • Fast, smooth, and lightweight PRIVACY FIRST Your typing never leaves your device. TypeGlow has no accounts, no tracking of what you type, and the keyboard contains no networking code. Word suggestions run fully on-device from a built-in list. TYPEGLOW PRO Unlock every premium theme and remove all ads with a one-time purchase. No subscription yours forever. Some apps (like secure password fields) always use the system keyboard; that is an iOS protection TypeGlow respects.

Screenshots

Custom Keyboard4 screens
TypeGlow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Custom Keyboard at none against TypeGlow's shown. Custom Keyboard also leads on iOS requirement (17 vs 26.5). On price, in-app purchases 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. Custom Keyboard sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and TypeGlow sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Custom Keyboard versus TypeGlow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCustom KeyboardTypeGlow
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer益平 姚Muhammed Ahmed

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Custom Keyboard

One-time2
  • 10-Day TrialFree
  • Lifetime Pro$4.99
1 purchases

TypeGlow

One-time1
  • TypeGlow Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Custom Keyboard free?
Custom Keyboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TypeGlow free?
TypeGlow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Custom Keyboard or TypeGlow have ads?
TypeGlow shows ads; Custom Keyboard does not.

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