Best Shift Keyboard Apps

197+ iOS apps curated and reviewed

4.3 avg rating

20 free apps

Updated June 2026

With an average user rating of 4.3★, the shift keyboard category is one of the App Store's strongest. Browse all 197+ apps we track, sorted so the most loved ones surface first.

Top Picks for Shift Keyboard

#1

Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard by TouchType Ltd

Copilot | GPT-4 | DALL·E 3

Editor's Choice

🔧 Utilities

4.6😐(121K ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

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This intelligent keyboard learns your writing style to provide accurate autocorrect and helpful predictions. It offers customizable themes and quick access to emojis and GIFs, allowing you to communicate faster and more efficiently.

What We Love

🚀 Smooth swiping and typing experience
👍 Customizable keyboard themes
💡 Supports multiple languages
🚀 Accurate word predictions

Room to Improve

🐛 Keyboard glitches and crashes
🐛 Inconsistent autocorrect and word replacement
🐛 Keyboard disappearing or reverting to default

#2

WatchKey: Keyboard for Watch by SMART WIDGET LABS COMPANY LIMITED

Easy Type,Chat +Fonts on Watch

Strong Contender

🔧 Utilities

4.4😞(3.9K ratings)

FreeAdsIn-App Purchases

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Enhance your Apple Watch typing experience with intuitive keyboards and diverse fonts. Send messages quickly and accurately with features like T9 and glide typing, making communication on your wrist effortless.

What We Love

🚀 Quick and responsive keyboard
👍 Easy to use
🤖 T9 typing mode

Room to Improve

🔒 Requires premium subscription to access full features
📵 Cannot use keyboard in Messages app
🤖 T9 mode not as expected

#3

WatchType - Watch Keyboard by Bitsbaker LLC.

#1 QWERTY Keyboard for Watch

Worth Considering

🔧 Utilities

4.3(147 ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

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This app provides a full QWERTY keyboard for Apple Watch, enabling faster and more familiar text input. It supports multiple languages, extended characters, custom fonts, and GIFs, making messaging on your wrist more efficient and expressive.

More Shift Keyboard apps to explore

WristBoard - Watch Keyboard

WristBoard - Watch Keyboard

Swipe & Type for Watch

$1.99 | 100% OFF

Type messages on your Apple Watch with a full QWERTY keyboard. Offers swipe typing, autocorrect, and smart suggestions for faster, more private communication. Supports iMessage, Mail, and emoji.

Full QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ keyboardSwipe typing functionalityAutocorrect and smart suggestions

📊 Productivity

free with in-app purchases

Gboard – the Google Keyboard

Gboard – the Google Keyboard

Search. GIFs. Emojis and more.

This keyboard app integrates Google Search, GIFs, and emojis directly into your typing experience. It offers features like Glide Typing for faster input and allows you to search and share information without leaving your current application.

Google Search integrationGIF and emoji searchGlide Typing for faster input

Super Easy Copy&Paste Keyboard

This keyboard app allows you to quickly access and paste stored notes and information, saving you time when writing long messages or emails. It offers custom phrase storage and a user-friendly interface for efficient communication.

Custom phrase storageQuick paste functionalityEfficient communication

free with in-app purchases

Kika Keyboard: Custom Themes

Kika Keyboard: Custom Themes

AI Custom Keyboards Background

Enhance your social media posts and messages with custom keyboards. Add unique fonts, emojis, stickers, and AI-generated backgrounds to make your content stand out on platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat. Personalize your typing experience with a vast library of resources.

Customizable keyboard themes and wallpapersWide selection of stylish fontsExtensive emoji and sticker library

free with in-app purchases

Fonts Keyboard AI

Fonts Keyboard AI

Fancy text & emoji for iPhone

Elevate your messaging with a stylish font keyboard offering AI-powered tools. Create custom art, stickers, and transform text in over 40 styles. Communicate globally with translation and chat with an AI assistant directly from your keyboard.

Beautiful fonts for messagesAI-powered emoji and symbol searchCreate custom art and stickers

free with in-app purchases

Grammarly: AI Keyboard & Notes

Grammarly: AI Keyboard & Notes

Chats, emails, work and study

Enhance your writing across all apps with AI-powered suggestions for grammar, spelling, and clarity. Generate new versions of your text, detect tone, and improve conciseness. Also includes a document editor and Safari extension for comprehensive writing support.

Real-time grammar and spelling suggestionsAI-powered text rewritesTone detection and transformation

📊 Productivity

LED Keyboard - RGB Theme

LED Keyboard - RGB Theme

LED Keyboard custom for typing

This app transforms your phone's keyboard into a vibrant, customizable light show with dazzling RGB effects and dynamic lighting that reacts to your typing. Enjoy enhanced functionality with features like swipe-to-type and multilingual support, all within a sleek user interface.

Customizable RGB themesDynamic lighting effectsStatic color options

free with in-app purchases

Kebo Keyboard : Fonts & Emoji

Kebo Keyboard : Fonts & Emoji

diy keyboard art, auto paste

Enhance your messaging with custom fonts, emojis, and themes. Boost productivity with auto-paste, auto-translate, and fast typing features. Express yourself with GIFs and create unique social media profiles.

2000+ emojis60+ fonts200+ keyboard themes

free with in-app purchases

K+ Keyboard Plus Customize

K+ Keyboard Plus Customize

Keyboard w/ Emoji Fonts Sounds

Personalize your iPhone or iPad keyboard with a vast array of themes, fonts, and sounds. This app offers auto-correction, emoji support, and a dictionary to enhance your typing experience and secure private messages.

Over 1 million keyboard combinationsSave favorite themes40+ typographies and writing styles

free with in-app purchases

Clicks Keyboard

Clicks Keyboard

Set up your typing experience

Enhance your typing with advanced keyboard controls. Customize backlight, shift key behavior, and access to numbers and symbols. Optimize your typing experience with features like soft return, cursor mode, and firmware updates.

Keyboard backlight controlCaps lock and shift lock customizationAlt lock for numbers and symbols

Facemoji AI Emoji Keyboard

Facemoji AI Emoji Keyboard

Keyboard Fonts,Emoji&Sticker

Enhance your mobile conversations with a custom AI-powered keyboard. Access thousands of emojis, stickers, GIFs, and cool fonts to personalize your messages and posts across various social media platforms. Create unique emojis and themes to express yourself.

AI-powered writing and translation assistantCustomizable keyboard themes, buttons, and effectsThousands of emojis, stickers, GIFs, and text art

free with in-app purchases

Punjabi Keyboard - Gurmukhi

Punjabi Keyboard - Gurmukhi

Word Suggestions & Predictions

Write Punjabi directly within any iOS application without needing to copy and paste. This keyboard offers word suggestions and predictions, and allows you to customize its appearance with various themes.

Write Punjabi in any appWord suggestions and predictionsCustomizable keyboard themes

Keyboard - Color keyboard themes

Keyboard - Color keyboard themes

by CAT VIET SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT & MEDIA JSC

Personalize your mobile typing experience with a wide selection of visually appealing themes. This app offers a system-integrated keyboard that provides fast and convenient typing, with ongoing updates to keep your keyboard fresh and exciting.

Variety of interesting skinsSystem integrated keyboardFast & convenient typing

Copy Keyboard - Auto & Fast

Copy Keyboard - Auto & Fast

Spamming Text & Paste App

This app allows you to save frequently used text snippets and quickly paste them into any messaging application. Save time by writing common phrases once and reusing them across various platforms.

Save and reuse text snippetsFast copy-paste functionalitySupports all messaging apps

free with in-app purchases

Led Color Keyboard - SnapKey

Led Color Keyboard - SnapKey

The Fonts Neon Keyboard App

Transform your typing experience with a vibrant and customizable keyboard. Choose from a variety of colorful skins, dazzling effects, and sparkling themes. Enjoy smart input features like auto-correction and emoji predictions for faster, more engaging messaging.

Colorful keyboard skinsAmazing LED effectsSparkling RGB themes

free with in-app purchases

Keyboard DIY: Cool Art Games

Keyboard DIY: Cool Art Games

DIY Keyboard Game: Girl Apps

Design and customize unique virtual keyboards with a variety of materials and tools. Follow simple steps to create fun and personalized keyboard styles, then enjoy the typing experience. Offers a creative outlet for users looking to express themselves through their device's interface.

Variety of keyboard stylesReal production steps simulationPopular design elements

🎬 Entertainment

Manglish Keyboard

Manglish Keyboard

Official from ClusterDev

This keyboard extension simplifies typing in Malayalam by allowing users to type in English letters and receive instant Malayalam word translations. It offers word predictions, spell correction, and easy language switching, enhancing the typing experience across all apps.

English to Malayalam transliterationWord predictionsSpell correction