Comparison

Keeble vs Claro ScanPen

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

Head to head
About

Keeble

This keyboard app provides advanced accessibility features for users with motor challenges, vision impairments, and switch users. It offers customizable typing options, auditory feedback, and self-learning word prediction to enhance usability across various iOS applications.

Highlights
  • Word prediction
  • Select on Release/Dwell
  • Auditory feedback
  • Switch Control support
  • VoiceOver support
  • Multi-language support
  • Customizable themes
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Keeble is an iOS keyboard that allows users with fine motor-challenges, switch users and users with vision impairments to type in almost any app. The keyboard offers word prediction, timing options, Select on Release, Select on Dwell, auditory feedback and other accessibility features. It also fully supports Switch Control and VoiceOver. Keeble is currently available in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech and Polish. The keyboard also offers optimized layouts for simplified, advanced and scanning keyboards. Alternative access - Prevent accidental selections with Timing options - Compensate for motor challenges with Select on Release or Select on Dwell - Use scanning-optimized keyboards with Switch Control: ABC and frequency of use Auditory feedback - Turn on keyboard clicks - Use spoken cues as you move your finger across the keyboard - Hear each key, word or sentence you type with Speak as you Type Self-learning word prediction - Choose between word completion, next-word prediction or multi-word prediction - Configure the number of suggestions and suggestion order - Adjust the size of the prediction bar to your needs Speed up typing - Benefit from the phrase bank providing quick access to your iOS keyboard shortcuts - Use the cursor keys to navigate through text quickly - Turn Auto-Capitalization and Auto-Spacing ON or OFF Optimize for different users - Use with beginning readers and select lowercase key labels, ABC layout and colored vowels - Customize for adults by allowing access to all characters and selecting QWERTY layout - Choose from 5 different themes or create a custom theme User comfort - Use Keeble on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch - Select one of the 11 available languages, including regional keyboard layouts - Choose your preferred font, including dyslexic and school-friendly fonts

About

Claro ScanPen

This app allows you to take a photo of printed text and have it read aloud to you instantly. It uses OCR technology to convert images to text and supports multiple languages. It's ideal for students, professionals, and anyone needing auditory access to printed materials, even without an internet connection.

Highlights
  • Photo capture of printed text
  • Selectable text for audio playback
  • Instant human-quality voice output
  • Offline functionality
  • Multi-language support
  • OCR technology
  • Copy and share text
Features
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Need to listen to printed text spoken aloud - at school, in a test or exam, at work or at home? Use Claro ScanPen to photo your printed text document, letter, test paper - then select the text with your finger (or stylus), and hear it spoken straight back to you. Instantly! No internet connection required. Claro ScanPen advances reading aloud support. It gives access to printed text materials and documents for all, in a wide range of languages. Using your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, simply: • Take a photo of the text or select a photo of the text document from your camera roll. • Highlight with your finger or stylus which section of text you want to hear spoken to you. • Listen as Claro ScanPen instantly reads the text back to you using a human quality voice in a language of your choice. With your finger (or stylus) you can highlight all of the text, word by word or line by line. Tap anywhere to stop the speech. Claro ScanPen can also be used with the built in iOS VoiceOver accessibility feature, allowing low vision and blind users to access text. Claro ScanPen has no access to the internet or any reference material, so is perfect to use as a computer reader under exam and test conditions, helping students who cannot read text very well (e.g. students with dyslexia) to listen to the exam test paper questions and information. It can also be used for quickly converting class handout materials, printed presentations, instructions, books - in fact anything containing printed texts. Great for independent access and learning. Claro ScanPen uses the latest premium Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to convert your picture into text and uses iOS system voices to read the text back to you. The OCR in Claro ScanPen fully supports the recognition of text in the following languages: • English • Danish • Dutch • French • German • Italian • Norwegian • Portuguese • Spanish • Swedish Simply select the voice that matches the language of your text to hear it read back correctly. Higher-quality Nuance Expressive and Acapela voices are available to purchase in-app. Claro ScanPen is a great addition to the popular Claro Reading and Writing support apps ClaroSpeak and ClaroPDF. Claro ScanPen does not require internet access to function. Explore using the Apple iOS Guided Access feature to lock the iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone into a single app, for more secure and controlled usage. Tap iOS Settings > General > Accessibility > Guided Access to set up Guided Access. Selected text can be copied to the clipboard by enabling the advanced setting in iOS Settings. A share button can be enabled in advanced settings in iOS Settings. This lets you export your image to other apps, email and other destinations. Now supports drag and drop of the scanned text, to apps that support text, such as Notes. Requires iOS 11 and an iPad that supports multi-tasking. *** Minimum camera spec: 2MP *** If you require any product support please email us at support@clarosoftware.com. We cannot respond to any support requests made via the App Store review channel, so please email us first.

Screenshots

Keeble4 screens
Claro ScanPen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Claro ScanPen at $9.99 against Keeble's $24.99. Claro ScanPen also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.4) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). Keeble's advantage is review sentiment (64% vs 24%) and in-app purchases (none vs 11). On ads 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

Keeble costs $24.99 and Claro ScanPen $9.99 up front. Claro ScanPen sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Keeble asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Claro ScanPen holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Claro ScanPen has 147 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 64% of Keeble's written reviews are positive against 24% of Claro ScanPen's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Keeble ships an update every 6 months, Claro ScanPen every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Keeble versus Claro ScanPen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKeebleClaro ScanPen
Price$24.99$9.99 — better
Rating3.4 (13 ratings)4.2 (147 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.6% of reviews — better23.5% of reviews
Number of ratings13147 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.7.213.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size200 MB136 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAssistiveWareClaro Software Limited

Customer experience

Keeble

All ratings13 ratings
Positive46.2%
Neutral30.8%
Negative23.1%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive63.6%
Neutral31.8%
Negative4.5%

Claro ScanPen

All ratings147 ratings
Positive79.6%
Neutral4.1%
Negative16.3%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive23.5%
Neutral17.6%
Negative58.8%

In-app purchases

None

Keeble

No in-app purchases

11 purchases

Claro ScanPen

One-time11
  • Allison$1.99
  • Ava$1.99
  • Samantha$1.99
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  • Tom$1.99
  • Susan$1.99
  • Heather$1.99
  • Ryan$1.99
  • Micah$1.99
  • Rod$1.99
  • Tyler$1.99
  • Will$1.99

Questions

Is Keeble free?
Keeble costs $24.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Claro ScanPen free?
Claro ScanPen costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Keeble or Claro ScanPen?
Claro ScanPen is rated higher. Keeble averages 3.4 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Claro ScanPen averages 4.2 from 147 ratings.
Do Keeble or Claro ScanPen have ads?
Neither Keeble nor Claro ScanPen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Keeble or Claro ScanPen?
Keeble ships an update every 6 months, and Claro ScanPen every 2 months. Most recently, Keeble was updated on October 11, 2026 and Claro ScanPen on September 30, 2026.

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