My Photo Background Keyboard is a customization utility for iOS that allows users to set personal photos as keyboard backgrounds.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Photo & Video
Sentiment
3.4
2k reviews
Nemesis
Fragmented field
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire this app to personalize their mobile typing experience, but the failure to save designs prevents the primary job-to-be-done.
For Mobile users seeking visual customization of their keyboard and AI-assisted text composition tools.
What does it look like?
Key features
Allows users to set images from the device gallery or camera as the keyboard background.
Provides automated correction and email reply suggestions using AI.
How much does it cost?
Subscription model anchored at $29.99/year, gating AI features and ad removal behind a recurring payment.
Velocity
Dormant developmentUX improvementsnew contentShow more...
The app has reached a zombie state, with no updates released in over 16 months. The latest version introduced an AI rewrite feature and UI changes, but development has since ceased entirely. There is no evidence of ongoing maintenance or live operations support for this application.
Who built it?
Bhavik Savaliya
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What do users think recently?
Review voice lately leans upset. Users appreciate the visual editor provides a simple and easy layout for users customizing their keyboard backgrounds.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- The visual editor provides a simple and easy layout for users customizing their keyboard backgrounds
- Users report the app fails to save custom keyboard designs or apply them to the system
49 of 49 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Upset overall
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Competitive landscape for My Photo Background Keyboard
How's the Photo & Video market?
The app maintains a 3.38 rating across 1,902 total ratings, indicating significant friction in the user experience. The lack of updates for over 500 days suggests the product is in maintenance mode, limiting its ability to compete with active keyboard utilities.
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Key takeaways for My Photo Background Keyboard
Where is it heading?
The app is in a state of terminal decline due to a 500-day update gap and critical functional failures. Without immediate technical intervention to address the save-button bug, the app will continue to lose its remaining user base to more reliable keyboard utilities.
- The failure of the save functionality in the latest version leads to high churn, which compounds the rating drag already visible on the store.
- Users report: Allegations of deceptive billing practices regarding locked premium features create significant brand risk, potentially leading to store-level enforcement actions.
The SWOT
- Simple editor layout provides a low-friction entry point for visual customization
- Clearer setup documentation could reduce support tickets and negative reviews
Next best moves
Ship a functional save-state verification because save-button failure is the top-reported frustration → restore core utility
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's lack of updates for over 500 days is not just neglect…
Read the full takeSince the last report: Users report: The app's competitive assessment has shifted from a focus on technical bugs to a characterization of terminal decline and predatory monetization.
Bottom line
Users report: The app provides a simple visual editor, but the failure of core save functionality and allegations of deceptive billing create a high churn risk, so the PM must prioritize technical stability over new AI features to prevent further rating erosion.
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- [1] App Store, source
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