Custom Keyboard vs TypeGlow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
TypeGlow
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
| Parameter | Custom Keyboard | TypeGlow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 益平 姚 | Muhammed Ahmed |
In-app purchases
Custom Keyboard
- 10-Day TrialFree
- Lifetime Pro$4.99
TypeGlow
- TypeGlow Pro$4.99









