Comparison

Typiora Keyboard vs Slyder

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

Head to head
About

Typiora Keyboard

This keyboard extension offers a wealth of customization options, including unique themes, particle effects, and a variety of fonts. It enhances typing with features like cursor control, quick deletion, and smart prediction, while prioritizing user privacy.

Highlights
  • Customizable themes and theme creator
  • Particle effects and custom sounds
  • Hundreds of fancy fonts
  • Cursor control and quick delete
  • One-hand mode
  • Smart prediction and shortcuts
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Typiora is an amazing keyboard extension that has a lot of powerful features to help you to type with fun and convenient like Cursor Control, Swipe to Delete, Swipe to Type, Text-Case Control, ForceTouch-Capitalize, Alternate Key, Numbers Row, Shortcuts, or One-Hand Mode. It's also very easy to design your own theme with a powerful Theme Customizer. Choose from mood presets or fine-tune every detail in Advanced mode. Be unique and creative! You can also enjoy beautiful effects inside Typiora keyboard. Create your own effect with the Effect Editor and share it with your friends! Typiora can change your text into hundreds of fonts to impress your friends. Boring of click sound? Typiora brings fun to your typing with different sounds on every touch. Typiora Store allows you to browse and download themes, effects, fonts, sounds, and keyboard layouts from a growing community of creators. Highlight features: • Awesome Themes: Hundreds of cool themes. Create your own Theme and share with your friends • Theme Editor: Design from mood presets or go Advanced for full per-element control • Particle Effects: Your keyboard is more lively with beautiful particle effects • Effect Editor: Create and customize your own particle effects • Fancy Fonts: to make words look exquisite • Sounds: Type with different sounds or even a song, no more boring click sound • AI Grammar Check: Fix grammar, spelling, and punctuation instantly • AI Translate: Translate your text into 30+ languages right from the keyboard • AI Rephrase: Rewrite in Formal, Casual, Concise, Polite, or Funny tone • AI Continue Writing: Let AI complete your sentences and paragraphs • Typing Stats: Track your speed, accuracy, words typed, and daily activity • Typing Personality: Discover if you're a Speed Demon, Night Owl, Emoji Artist, and more • 44+ Achievements: Unlock milestones for typing, gestures, and AI usage • Cursor Control: Drag to move the cursor quickly • Quick Delete: Swipe to delete, repeat deletion and word deletion • Forward Deletion: Delete text on the right • Swipe to Type: Glide across keys to type entire words • One-Handed Mode: Shrink the keyboard to type easily with one hand • Smart Prediction: Next-word guessing and auto correction • Emoji Suggestions: Context-aware emoji with 300+ country flag suggestions • Calculator: Evaluate math expressions in the suggestion bar • Unit Conversion: Convert units instantly as you type • Shortcuts & Text Templates: Type less and faster, shortcuts are used as text templates • Alt-Keys: Fast number input • Number Row: Addition number row on top • Case Sensitive: Keyboard buttons in lowercase or uppercase • Text-Case Control: Fast switching text to uppercase, lowercase or capitalize • Responsive Theme: Theme system supports both Light and Dark mode • Typiora Store: Browse and download community themes, effects, fonts, sounds, and keyboards • Multi-Language: English, Vietnamese (Telex & VNI), Emoji, and more downloadable layouts • New Emoji: Quick access to full new emoji set • Pictographics: Access to hundreds of special symbols and text-arts • Test Lab: Section to test your keyboard to see how it reacts to every type of text fields • iCloud Sync: Your typing stats sync securely across your devices Typiora DOES NOT require Full Access, but still being recommended in order to update/improve database, play sound, or use AI features. Typiora takes your privacy very seriously, it DOES NOT collect anything you type. Your typing stats are stored only on your device and private iCloud. Typiora Premium unlocks all themes, effects, fonts, sounds, and AI features with one subscription. Free users enjoy smart gestures, basic plugins, typing stats, text templates, and multi-language support. Follow Typiora at: facebook.com/Typiora twitter.com/Typiora www.typiora.app Email: contact@typiora.app

About

Slyder

Enhance your typing experience with a customizable keyboard offering extensive gesture controls for navigation, deletion, and text manipulation. It supports multiple languages and offers personalized themes and feedback options.

Highlights
  • Extensive gesture controls
  • Multi-language support
  • Customizable themes
  • Emoji recommendations
  • Copy/paste history
  • Adjustable keyboard height
Features
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Slyder is a lightweight keyboard built around gestures — slide anywhere to move the cursor, drag the delete key to erase and undo, and keep the tools you actually use one tap above the keys. TYPE IN 38 LANGUAGES Japanese かな 12-key flick and ローマ字 with kana→kanji conversion. Chinese 简体拼音 and 注音. Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu with full right-to-left layouts. Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Greek, Korean, English and many more — every one with the same gestures. GESTURES THAT SAVE TAPS - Slide anywhere on the keys to move the cursor, letter by letter - Drag the space bar to move word by word - Drag delete left to erase, right to bring it back - Swipe down to dismiss, swipe up for the number row MAKE IT YOURS - Themes matched to your iPhone color, or a gradient you build yourself - Choose the font your keys are drawn in - An extra row of favorites — buttons, phrases, links, folders - Adjustable keyboard height TOOLS BUILT IN - Clipboard history and a one-tap paste button - Emoji and emoticon suggestions that learn as you type - Cool Fonts and Fun Text - Generative AI with web search - Insights into how you type iCLOUD BACKUP Settings, folders, colors, clipboard, emoji and stats back up to your own iCloud and restore onto a new iPhone in one tap. ON iPAD A native iPad layout with a full number row and Apple-parity key sizing. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Typiora Keyboard4 screens
Slyder4 screens

Verdict

The call

Typiora Keyboard and Slyder both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 82% of Typiora Keyboard's written reviews are positive against 69% of Slyder's. Slyder's advantage is ratings volume (1.6K vs 468). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Typiora Keyboard sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Slyder sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Typiora Keyboard against 4.5 for Slyder. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 468 and 1.6K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of Typiora Keyboard's written reviews are positive against 69% of Slyder's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Typiora Keyboard ships an update every 3 weeks, Slyder every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Typiora Keyboard versus Slyder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTypiora KeyboardSlyder
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (468 ratings)4.5 (1.6K ratings) — better
Positive reviews82.0% of reviews — better68.6% of reviews
Number of ratings4681.6K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB196 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNam KennicChiho Chun

Customer experience

Typiora Keyboard

All ratings468 ratings
Positive84.8%
Neutral7.1%
Negative8.1%
Written reviews206 reviews
Positive82.0%
Neutral9.2%
Negative8.7%

Slyder

All ratings1,649 ratings
Positive88.4%
Neutral5.0%
Negative6.5%
Written reviews261 reviews
Positive68.6%
Neutral11.5%
Negative19.9%

Bugs and requests

Typiora Keyboard

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Slyder

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Keyboard sometimes switches to default iOS keyboard unexpectedly
  • Haptic feedback issues, sometimes stops working
  • Keyboard not working properly in certain apps like Chrome and Safari
  • Issues with the keyboard when using the emoji/special character section

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add autocorrect and text prediction features
  • Allow customizing the favorite bar when switching keyboard layers
  • Add support for more languages like Japanese, Chinese, and Urdu
  • Improve stability and reduce bugs
  • Allow disabling the full access permission request

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Typiora Keyboard

Subscriptions1
  • Typiora Premium Monthly$0.991 Month
One-time10
  • Unlock Custom Theme$0.99
  • 50 Coins$0.99
  • Remove Ads$0.99
Show 7 more
  • Unlock Custom Effect$0.99
  • 125 Coins$1.99
  • 250 Coins$2.99
  • 400 Coins$3.99
  • 600 Coins$4.99
  • 3.000 Coins$9.99
  • 10.000 Coins$19.99
12 purchases

Slyder

Subscriptions5
  • Plus$0.991 Month
  • Premium$3.997 Days
  • Plus$7.991 Year
Show 2 more
  • Premium$9.991 Month
  • Premium$59.991 Year
One-time7
  • Support $0.99$0.99
  • Support $1.99$1.99
  • Support $2.99$2.99
Show 4 more
  • Support $4.99$4.99
  • Support $9.99$9.99
  • Support $29.99$29.99
  • Support $99.99$99.99

Questions

Is Typiora Keyboard free?
Typiora Keyboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Slyder free?
Slyder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Typiora Keyboard or Slyder?
Slyder is rated higher. Typiora Keyboard averages 4.4 out of 5 from 468 ratings, while Slyder averages 4.5 from 1.6K ratings.
Do Typiora Keyboard or Slyder have ads?
Neither Typiora Keyboard nor Slyder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Typiora Keyboard or Slyder?
Typiora Keyboard ships an update every 3 weeks, and Slyder every 10 days. Most recently, Typiora Keyboard was updated on October 10, 2026 and Slyder on October 15, 2026.

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