# Click Wheel Keyboard

> Utilities

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id993111285](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id993111285)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id993111285`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Adam Bell
- **Category:** Utilities
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (23 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.1
- **Last updated:** 2015-06-02
- **First published:** 2015-05-24
- **Size:** 1.20 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-25
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/click-wheel-keyboard/id993111285)
- **Website:** [http://www.adambell.ca/](http://www.adambell.ca/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.adambell.ca/](http://www.adambell.ca/)

## Description

Typing with two hands is such a chore, who needs extra complexity when writing? 

Simply scroll through all characters and emoji with this super retro keyboard!

Each side of the wheel also has a function: tap the top to delete, left to move the cursor, right for a space, and bottom for capital letters!

Infinite Rotations. Infinite Conversations.

## Rankings

- #233,484 — Overall
- #40 — cursor
- #43 — custom cursor

## Review summary

The Click Wheel Keyboard is a nostalgic, novelty keyboard that convincingly mimics the iPod s click wheel, which many reviews praise as fun and visually distinctive. Users enjoy its retro vibe and see strong conceptual potential. However, the app is widely reported as buggy and frequently non-functional, with crashes, long delays, and unreliable wheel navigation. Some users must enable Full Access and still experience little result, raising privacy concerns. Feature gaps and varying performance across iOS versions add to usability issues. It shows promise but needs substantial polish and compatibility.

### Pros

- Recreates the original iPod Click Wheel experience and functionality
- Fun and visually distinctive; a cool, novelty keyboard to use
- Shows strong potential to evolve into a standard keyboard due to its unique concept
- Nostalgia value makes it a conversation piece and easy to demo

### Cons

- Very buggy and often non-functional, including crashes on first use and non-responsive behavior even after enabling Full Access
- Extremely slow letter switching and unreliable wheel navigation with frequent scrolling failures
- Requires Full Access and raises privacy concerns; some users report it does nothing even after enabling
- Lacks essential features and usability gaps such as no enter key, limited predictive text, and no dark mode

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id993111285)