Comparison

Color Hints vs Kbrd

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Visualize color relationships
  • Catalog color schemes
  • Find coordinating colors
  • Match colors effectively
  • Color discovery methods
Features
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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.

About

Kbrd

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Color Hints4 screens
Kbrd3 screens

Verdict

The call

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 ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13 vs 17.6). On 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

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Color Hints ships an update every 7 months, Kbrd monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Color Hints versus Kbrd: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColor HintsKbrd
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB26 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJim CalvinLavu Mweemba

In-app purchases

None

Color Hints

No in-app purchases

None

Kbrd

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Color Hints free?
Color Hints costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kbrd free?
Kbrd is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Color Hints or Kbrd have ads?
Kbrd shows ads; Color Hints does not.
Which is updated more often, Color Hints or Kbrd?
Color Hints ships an update every 7 months, and Kbrd monthly. Most recently, Color Hints was updated on October 2, 2026 and Kbrd on September 22, 2026.

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