Comparison

Themeboard vs Mister Keyboard

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Curated designer keyboard themes
  • High-quality wallpapers
  • Themeable keyboard
  • Built-in Emoji & Kaomoji
  • Autocorrection and prediction
  • User-defined shortcuts
  • Quick delete functionality
Features
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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.

About

Mister Keyboard

Create a personalized typing experience with custom keys, clipboard management, and smart typing features. Enhance productivity with snippets, translation, and AI-powered tools. Supports multiple languages, themes, and advanced scripting.

Highlights
  • Customizable key layouts and actions
  • Clipboard history and text snippets
  • Smart autocorrect and swipe typing
  • Themes, fonts, and emoji access
  • Translation and OCR capabilities
  • AI-powered proofreading and suggestions
  • JavaScript scripting for advanced workflows
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Mister Keyboard is a powerful custom keyboard for iPhone that lets you build your ideal typing experience—from custom keys and clipboard tools to swipe typing, smart autocorrect, themes, snippets, AI features, scripting, fonts, and more. Whether you want a better everyday keyboard or a deeply personalized productivity tool, Mister Keyboard gives you the flexibility to type your way. KEY FEATURES Build Your Own Keyboard Add, delete, move, and rearrange keys however you like. Customize tap, hold, and pull-down actions, including secondary swipe-down keys for faster access to the tools you use most. Powerful Custom Keys & Actions Go far beyond standard typing. Mister Keyboard includes 50+ custom key actions, including copy, cut, paste, cursor movement, and granular deletion such as previous/next word, forward/backward, and delete to beginning/end. Clipboard History & Snippets Access your clipboard history directly from the keyboard with search and a dedicated clipboard row. Save frequently used text in the built-in snippet manager and find it instantly. Smart Typing Enjoy smart autocorrect that learns how you type, with multi-language support. Mister Keyboard also supports advanced swipe typing, including multi-finger swipe and swipe-and-tap gestures. Themes & Personalization Choose from lots of built-in and animated themes, or create your own. Use the theme creator for custom backgrounds, or the advanced theme creator for full theming control. Emoji, Symbols & Fonts Quickly browse and search emojis and symbols using built-in galleries and quick-access rows. Switch between Unicode fonts that work in almost any app, and add font tools directly to your keyboard. Contacts, Translation & OCR Link contacts to your keyboard to quickly insert addresses, emails, phone numbers, and more. Use translation tools in your workflow, or extract text from photos with OCR. AI Features Use Apple Intelligence-powered tools such as AI proofreading, AI emoji suggestions, and AI chat inside the in-app keyboard preview. Scripting & Advanced Tools Extend the keyboard with JavaScript scripting to create your own custom behavior and workflows. Mister Keyboard is built for users who want more power and control. Multiple Layouts & Languages Create and use multiple keyboards with different layouts and languages. Quickly switch between them from the space bar with the built-in keyboard switcher. More Great Features Mister Keyboard also includes a quick period shortcut by double-tapping space, an ellipsis shortcut by triple-tapping space, quick-access emoji and symbol rows, built-in games, extensive behavior settings, and support for iOS 26 and Liquid Glass. Why Mister Keyboard? Mister Keyboard can be as simple or as powerful as you want. Use it as a great everyday keyboard with swipe typing, autocorrect, emojis, and themes—or turn it into a fully customized typing system built around your workflow. Download Mister Keyboard today and build a keyboard that actually works the way you want. ---- PLEASE READ: A Mister Keyboard Pro subscription is required to access all features. Once purchased, subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled before the end of the current billing period. Subscriptions can be managed or cancelled in your Apple App Store account. The free version supports limited keyboard editing and allows previewing most features inside the app, but does not allow using Pro features or themes in other apps. Keys using pro features will simply be disabled in use, and you can still use the rest of your keyboard normally. Privacy Policy: https://fivesheep.co/privacy/misterkeyboard Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Themeboard4 screens
Mister Keyboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Mister Keyboard at 4.0 against Themeboard's 2.5. Mister Keyboard also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (55% vs 40%). Themeboard's advantage is iOS requirement (9.1 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Themeboard sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Mister Keyboard sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mister Keyboard holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 103 and 86 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Themeboard's written reviews are positive against 55% of Mister Keyboard's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Themeboard ships an update every 3 months, Mister Keyboard every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Themeboard versus Mister Keyboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThemeboardMister Keyboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (103 ratings)4.0 (86 ratings) — better
Positive reviews39.7% of reviews55.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings103 — better86
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTaphive GmbHFiveSheep OU

Customer experience

Themeboard

All ratings103 ratings
Positive32.0%
Neutral13.6%
Negative54.4%
Written reviews567 reviews
Positive39.7%
Neutral22.0%
Negative38.3%

Mister Keyboard

All ratings86 ratings
Positive72.1%
Neutral9.3%
Negative18.6%
Written reviews49 reviews
Positive55.1%
Neutral22.4%
Negative22.4%

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

Mister Keyboard

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Themeboard

One-time10
  • Black Mak Theme$0.99
  • Color Your Style Theme Pack$0.99
  • Silver Edition Theme$0.99
Show 7 more
  • 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
5 purchases

Mister Keyboard

Subscriptions4
  • Mister Keyboard Pro2 variants$1.997 Days
  • Mister Keyboard Pro2 variants$5.991 Month
  • Mister Keyboard Pro1 Month trial$16.991 Year
Show 1 more
  • Mister Keyboard Pro14 Days trial$22.991 Year
One-time1
  • Mister Keyboard Pro Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is Themeboard free?
Themeboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mister Keyboard free?
Mister Keyboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Themeboard or Mister Keyboard?
Mister Keyboard is rated higher. Themeboard averages 2.5 out of 5 from 103 ratings, while Mister Keyboard averages 4.0 from 86 ratings.
Do Themeboard or Mister Keyboard have ads?
Neither Themeboard nor Mister Keyboard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Themeboard or Mister Keyboard?
Themeboard ships an update every 3 months, and Mister Keyboard every 9 days. Most recently, Themeboard was updated on October 11, 2026 and Mister Keyboard on October 16, 2026.

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