Themeboard vs KeyboardKit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Themeboard
Discover and download unique keyboard themes and wallpapers created by world-class designers. Personalize your iOS device with high-quality artwork and enjoy a fully functional keyboard with emojis and autocorrection.
- Curated designer keyboard themes
- High-quality wallpapers
- Themeable keyboard
- Built-in Emoji & Kaomoji
- Autocorrection and prediction
- User-defined shortcuts
- Quick delete functionality
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Themeboard is the first destination for the world's best theme designers, wallpapers, and keyboard themes. Unlike other "customization" apps, Themeboard enables the best designers and illustrators from all over the world to create quality keyboard themes and wallpapers for iOS. A brand new way for designers to get discovered and for users to personalize iOS with world-class artwork which Themeboard brings to life. Featured by Apple, MacWorld, iMore, AppAdvice and many others. What's Themeboard - A beautifully-simple app where designers make their keyboard themes and wallpapers available to iOS users. Users can browse and download themes, learn more about each designer, and even connect with them via email or social media. - A theme-able keyboard that also supports all the great features iOS users come to expect from Apple's default keyboard including emojis and autocorrection. Themeboard Keyboard's Features: - Designed for all iPhone sizes (4S/5/5S/6/6 Plus) and iPad. - Built-in Emoji + Japanese Kaomoji Keyboard. - Auto-correction/Prediction. - Quick delete with 3 speeds. Accelerates the longer you hold it down. - Double tap a correction/prediction to automatically insert it followed by a period. - Text to Emoji & Kaomoji suggestions. If you type LOL or :D, the laughing emoji will be among the suggestions. - User-defined iOS keyboard shortcuts importing. Themeboard will automatically import your Apple keyboard shortcuts. - Automatic capitalization. - Automatic period upon double space. Can be disabled. - Tapping a special character (,.?!-/) automatically inserts a suggestion/correction followed by the special character. - Caps lock. Automatically turns off when switching to number pad (a la Apple keyboard). - Tap-hold Shift then slide capitalization. Tap-hold shift then slide to a character to capitalize it. - Capitalize character keys with shift button. - Responding to web address field, numbers and email traits.
KeyboardKit
Replace your device's default keyboard with a highly customizable alternative. Personalize typing with custom fonts, toolbars, emoji skin tones, and clipboards. Supports a vast array of languages and layout options for a truly unique typing experience.
- Customizable keyboard themes
- Type with custom fonts
- Extra toolbar row and buttons
- Customizable emoji skin tone
- Clipboard manager for quick pasting
- Support for 75 languages
- Multiple keyboard layouts
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KeyboardKit lets you replace the system keyboard with a custom keyboard that is truly yours. KeyboardKit: - Works with all apps - Supports 75 languages - Has many settings and themes KeyboardKit supports: - 75 languages - QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY - Colemak, Dvorak - Vietnamese TELEX, VIQR, VNI KeyboardKit lets you: - Apply more settings - Type with custom fonts - Add an extra row of buttons - Add buttons to the main toolbar - Add buttons next to the spacebar - Paste into any app from a list of clips - Style your keyboard with beautiful themes - Make your keyboard keys bigger and bolder KeyboardKit settings: - Keyboard: One-Handed Keyboard, Character Preview, Haptic Feedback, Sound, Auto-Capitalization, Auto-Collapse, Enable Caps Lock, Predictive Text, "." Shortcut, Spacebar Long Press, Spacebar Menus, Toolbar Menu, Input Toolbar, Spacebar Actions, Toolbar Actions - Accessibility: Bold Text, Custom Button Height - Languages: English, Albanian, Arabic, Arabic (PC), Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cherokee, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Dutch (Belgium), English (Australia), English (Canada), English (United Kingdom), English (United States), Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, French (Canada), French (Belgium), French (Switzerland), Georgian, German, German (Austria), German (Switzerland), Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew (Israel), Hungarian, Icelandic, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Irish (Ireland), Italian, Kazakh, Kurdish, Sorani, Kurdish, Sorani (Iraq), کوردیی ناوەندی (PC), Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Mongolian, Northern Sami, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Pamiri Shughni (Shughni Tajik), Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Mexico), Swedish, Swahili, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Welsh, Vietnamese - Autocomplete: Auto-Complete, Auto-Correction, Auto-Ignore Words, Auto-Learn Words, Emoji Suggestions, Next Character Prediction, Text Replacements, Ignored Words, Number of Suggestions, Next Word Prediction, Hide toolbar - Clipboard: Add Clipboard Content, Create Custom Clips - Dictation: Silence Limit (before dictation ends) - Emoji: Default Emoji Skin Tone - Feedback: Audio & Haptic Feedback - Fonts: Select Custom Font - Theme: Pick Theme, Create Custom Themes (Premium) We hope that you will love using KeyboardKit! Terms & Conditions: https://apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: KeyboardKit at 4.3 against Themeboard's 2.5. KeyboardKit also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (55% vs 40%). Themeboard's advantage is iOS requirement (9.1 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Themeboard sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and KeyboardKit sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
KeyboardKit holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 103 and 75 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Themeboard's written reviews are positive against 55% of KeyboardKit's.
Themeboard ships an update every 3 months, KeyboardKit fortnightly. Both last shipped on September 28, 2026.
| Parameter | Themeboard | KeyboardKit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (103 ratings) | 4.3 (75 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.7% of reviews | 54.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 103 — better | 75 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Taphive GmbH | Kankoda Sweden AB |
Customer experience
Themeboard
KeyboardKit
Bugs and requests
Themeboard
Reported bugs
4 issues- Keyboard disappears or stops working in certain apps
- Cursor jumps to next field when adding contacts
- Unable to see text when writing reviews in the app
- Keyboard reverts to default iOS keyboard unexpectedly
Requested features
4 requests- Add support for multiple languages (Spanish, German, Turkish, etc.)
- Improve autocorrect and predictive text functionality
- Allow customization of keyboard sounds and haptic feedback
- Option to disable emoji bar and access emojis through the globe button
KeyboardKit
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Themeboard
- Black Mak Theme$0.99
- Color Your Style Theme Pack$0.99
- Silver Edition Theme$0.99
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- Space Gray Theme$0.99
- TACTICOOL$0.99
- SilverBook Theme$0.99
- Gold Edition Theme$1.99
- MAKPAK Theme Pack$1.99
- Rose Gold Edition$3.99
- Gold Limited Edition Theme$4.99
KeyboardKit
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Year








