Color Hints vs Kbrd
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Color Hints
This app assists users in visualizing and cataloging color relationships. It offers various methods for finding coordinating, matching, or related colors, benefiting designers, artists, and anyone seeking color harmony.
- Visualize color relationships
- Catalog color schemes
- Find coordinating colors
- Match colors effectively
- Color discovery methods
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Color Hints helps you to visualize and catalog color relationships. It provides many methods of helping you to find colors that coordinate, match, or otherwise relate. Useful for designers, painters, quilters, students, and anybody else struggling to figure out which color of throw pillows belong on their couch.
Kbrd
Personalize your typing experience with a custom keyboard. Choose styles, colors, and background images, and add unique key icons. It also includes emoji and GIF shortcuts, with options to lock specific keys using authentication.
- Custom keyboard themes
- Uploaded background images
- Key text and color controls
- Emoji and GIF shortcuts
- Lockable keys with authentication
- Floating or docked layout
- Quick settings access
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Kbrd is a customizable keyboard for iPhone and iPad. Pick a keyboard style, choose colors, upload a background image, add key icons, show or hide key text, and adjust the keyboard lift so it sits where you want it. The keyboard includes emoji and quick GIF-style reaction text, plus controls for removing or locking selected letters. Locked keys can optionally use the phone passcode or biometric authentication before typing. Quick settings are available from the keyboard by swiping up, so users can jump back to the main settings screen and adjust lift or floating mode faster. Key features: - Custom keyboard themes and uploaded backgrounds - Floating or docked keyboard layout - Key text, text color, and key picture controls - Emoji and GIF-style reaction shortcuts - Remove or lock selected letters - Optional phone authentication for locked keys - Swipe-up quick settings - Notification permission and App Store update shortcut Privacy note: Kbrd stores keyboard settings locally and in the app group shared with the keyboard extension. The keyboard does not collect typed text for analytics. Full access is used so the keyboard can read user-selected settings and uploaded background assets.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Kbrd at Free against Color Hints's $1.99. Kbrd also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 7 months). Color Hints's advantage is rating (3.0 vs 1.0) and ads (none vs shown). On ratings volume, 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
Kbrd is free to download; Color Hints costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Color Hints holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Color Hints ships an update every 7 months, Kbrd monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Color Hints | Kbrd |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jim Calvin | Lavu Mweemba |
In-app purchases
Color Hints
No in-app purchases
Kbrd
No in-app purchases









