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Keyboard Pro app review: easily create works of text art featuring Japanese and Western style emoticons

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Introduction

Take your iPhone and iPad keyboard to new heights of expression with this awesome addition to your keyboard. Keyboard Pro enables you to easily create works of text art featuring Japanese and Western style emoticons across a range of themes.

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This is a pretty standard “keyboard plus” style of app that has many counterparts in the Utilities and Social Networking categories of the App Store.

There is clearly a huge overlap between the functionality of Keyboard Pro and similar developments, so let’s take a slightly closer look to see if it really holds its own, so to speak, in light of comparable tools.

Keyboard Pro - Creative Text Art for iPhone Texting

Free

You'll Never Be Bored with Keyboard Pro

Keyboard Pro - Creative Text Art for iPhone Texting features a very simplistic interface which basically includes buttons enabling you to access the various keyboard modes contained within the app.

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The keyboard modes available are as follows:

  • Normal Text;                       
  • Symbols;
  • Emotes;
  • Japanese Emotes;
  • Decorated Text; and
  • Upside Down Text.

In addition to these basic modes, you can also tap the photo icon on the right-hand side of the screen to access a selection of pre-made emoticon art pieces, categorized into areas such as Animals, Celebration, Romance, and other.

You

Spruce Up Your Chats With Ease

So with the features available in Keyboard Pro, you’ve essentially got the ability to create any kind of crazy emoticon art you like, with the added bonus of being able to choose from existing arrangements of characters, and simply copy and paste them to your recipient.

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Once you’ve created your perfect piece of text art, it’s time to share it with the world. This can be achieved by tapping the blue tick button and then sharing via Facebook, Twitter, and text message.

You can also copy items to your clipboard, enabling you to paste them into other apps such as instant messaging chats.

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Keyboard Pro - Creative Text Art for iPhone Texting

Free

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • Easily create works of text art featuring Japanese and Western style emoticons
  • Choose from a variety of keyboard modes to create the perfect text art
  • Choose from a selection of pre-made emoticon art items if you don’t want to create your own
  • Share your text art creations with your friends and family online via Facebook, Twitter, and text message
  • Copy text art to your clipboard to easily paste it into other apps

Cons                                    

  • There is nothing negative to say about this app

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Final Words

Keyboard Pro - Creative Text Art for iPhone Texting definitely gets the job done, and although the interface is far from being the prettiest that I’ve seen in an app of this kind, I think it will make a more than worthwhile addition to your iPhone and iPad.

If your chats and text messages have been a little dull of late, I would definitely recommend taking a look at this little collection of keyboards!

Keyboard Pro - Creative Text Art for iPhone Texting

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MarkBangs

Mark is an opinionated writer who loves to review apps. In 2012, he started reviewing Apple apps on a regular basis and wonders how he survived up to that point without these apps.