iOS 763: Custom Keyboards - Exploring Snippety and Other Third-Party Alternatives
iOS Today (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Custom keyboards take center stage as Mikah and Rosemary explore the surprisingly small but mighty world of third-party iOS keyboards, from snippet management to AI-powered writing assistance, plus listener feedback on AirPods cleaning and some delightful app picks.
- Snippety keyboard ($29.99) - Rosemary demonstrates this powerful snippet management keyboard with collections, search functionality, rich formatting options, and advanced features like JavaScript snippets with placeholders and multi-select menus
- Bitmoji keyboard (free) - Mikah showcases this fun cartoon avatar keyboard that creates personalized messages and can include friends who also use Bitmoji, though he notes the unsettling 3D redesign
- Microsoft SwiftKey AI keyboard - Rosemary highlights its reliability during iOS beta issues, easy-to-spot emoji button, built-in paste functionality, GIF search, and translator feature, plus Copilot AI integration for enterprise users
- Grammarly AI Writing keyboard - Overview of grammar and writing improvement features, tone suggestions, vocabulary enhancements, and rewriting capabilities for professional communication
Feedback
- AirPods cleaning kit question from Gregg - Detailed explanation of the Belkin AirPods cleaning kit, featuring distilled water and micellar water that breaks down oils and earwax using micelles that attract fats and dirt
App Caps
- Rosemary's pick: PopSocket MagSafe Stand ($40) - New MagSafe PopSocket that doubles as a phone stand with swappable decorative tops, though she warns against overly symmetrical patterns that make you obsess over alignment
- Mikah's pick: Pet Libro water fountain - Smart pet fountain with inductive charging base, built-in scale for tracking water consumption, alternating 15-minute cycles (perfect for anxious dogs), Wi-Fi connectivity, and foreign object detection
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on iOS today, Rosemary Orchard and I, Micah Sargent, have our thumbs at the ready for custom keyboards. |
| 0:07.8 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:11.3 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:13.1 | From people you trust. |
| 0:15.6 | This is Twit. |
| 0:19.6 | This is iOS Today, episode 763, with Rosemary Orchard and me, Micah Sargent, |
| 0:26.6 | recorded Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025 for Thursday, July 31st, 2025. |
| 0:34.5 | Custom keyboards. |
| 0:37.1 | Hello and welcome to iOS today, the show where we talk all things iOS, iPad, |
| 0:42.3 | OS, TVOS, and many OS's Apple has. |
| 0:46.3 | We love to talk about the operating systems, the settings, the gadgets, the gizmos, the goodies, |
| 0:53.3 | all of that stuff, everything to help you make |
| 0:56.3 | the most of your devices. |
| 0:58.0 | That is our aim here on the show. |
| 1:01.1 | I am one of your hosts. |
| 1:02.9 | My name is Micah Sargent. |
| 1:05.9 | And my name is Rosemertrude, and I'm tapping away at the bed here, Micah. |
| 1:11.6 | I can't wait to get started on today's episode. |
| 1:13.6 | Yes. |
| 1:14.6 | So this is an interesting category to me because it seems like over time, fewer and fewer apps exist in this category. |
| 1:25.6 | This is the category that I can remember Apple adding custom keyboard. |
| 1:31.5 | They call it third-party keyboard functionality, where you basically could use the built-in keyboard |
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