Comparison

Typiora Keyboard vs better keyboard themes

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

better keyboard themes

This app offers a highly customizable keyboard with a wide range of fonts, themes, and emoji art. It includes advanced auto-correct and supports custom themes using your own photos, all while prioritizing user privacy by not requiring full access to chats.

Highlights
  • 15+ integrated themes
  • Use personal photos as themes
  • 100+ funky fonts
  • Advanced auto-correct/suggest
  • Integrated emoji and emoji art keyboard
  • Swipe cursor support
  • Customizable click sound
Features
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Searching for a fully customizable keyboard? But missing out other important features like powerful auto-correct, emoji, emoji art, designer fonts and the most important thing - don’t want to allow access to your private chats? We have features that every user craves for: • 15+ integrated themes and adding more periodically. • Set your favorite snap as theme. • Up to 100 funky fonts to choose from. • Several amazing fonts to choose from to display on keyboard. • Advanced auto-correct / auto-suggest engine. • Integrated Emoji / Emoticon Keyboard and auto-suggest Emoji as you type. • Integrated Emoji Art Keyboard, one tap to input nicely crafted Emoji compositions. • One-Handed Mode support for iPhone. • Swipe Cursor support, just swipe on space bar to move the input position. • Ability to turn on / off keyboard click sound. • Support ‘shortcuts’ that are created in System Settings. • Layouts and typing behaviors conform to the default keyboard. • Fully functional without "full Access" (full Access is temporarily needed if you want to add a theme or language.) Think of any application where keyboard is used and there we are, supporting all types of applications!

Screenshots

Typiora Keyboard4 screens
better keyboard themes3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Typiora Keyboard at none against better keyboard themes's shown. Typiora Keyboard also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 70 months). better keyboard themes's advantage is iOS requirement (12.1 vs 15.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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 better keyboard themes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 4.3 for better keyboard themes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 467 and 194 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of Typiora Keyboard's written reviews are positive against 84% of better keyboard themes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Typiora Keyboard ships an update every 3 weeks, better keyboard themes every 70 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Typiora Keyboard versus better keyboard themes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTypiora Keyboardbetter keyboard themes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (467 ratings) — better4.3 (194 ratings)
Positive reviews82.0% of reviews83.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings467 — better194
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 70 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.612.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNam KennicTarika Sultana

Customer experience

Typiora Keyboard

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

better keyboard themes

All ratings192 ratings
Positive80.2%
Neutral12.5%
Negative7.3%
Written reviews79 reviews
Positive83.5%
Neutral8.9%
Negative7.6%

Bugs and requests

Typiora Keyboard

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

better keyboard themes

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Custom keyboard functionality not working
  • Letter positioning issues in text
  • App crashes or freezes
  • Typing errors due to keyboard design

Requested features

6 requests
  • More free fonts available
  • Full access to all fonts without payment
  • Fewer or removable ads
  • Better keyboard sizing and layout
  • More font variety overall
Show 1 more
  • Improved font organization

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
1 purchases

better keyboard themes

One-time1
  • Unlock All Fonts$2.99

Questions

Is Typiora Keyboard free?
Typiora Keyboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is better keyboard themes free?
better keyboard themes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Typiora Keyboard or better keyboard themes?
Typiora Keyboard is rated higher. Typiora Keyboard averages 4.4 out of 5 from 467 ratings, while better keyboard themes averages 4.3 from 194 ratings.
Do Typiora Keyboard or better keyboard themes have ads?
better keyboard themes shows ads; Typiora Keyboard does not.
Which is updated more often, Typiora Keyboard or better keyboard themes?
Typiora Keyboard ships an update every 3 weeks, and better keyboard themes every 70 months. Most recently, Typiora Keyboard was updated on October 21, 2026 and better keyboard themes on October 26, 2026.

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