Qenzo AI Dictation Keyboard vs CleverType, the AI Typing Keyboard

Two different starting points

Qenzo starts from your voice: you talk, and finished, punctuated text appears in whatever app you had open. CleverType starts from your own typing: you write a message yourself, then tap a button to fix its grammar, change its tone, translate it, or draft a reply. Neither covers the other's core job. Qenzo has no one-tap "fix this text I typed" mode, and nothing in CleverType's site or its own llms.txt file mentions speech-to-text, a microphone, or dictation.

Qenzo vs CleverType at a glance

Axis	Qenzo	CleverType
Input method	Dictation-first. You speak; the keyboard writes the finished text.	Typing-first. You type; the AI rewrites, translates, or replies to what's already there.
Languages & output	42 languages to speak in, or auto-detect. 42 output languages chosen per message (the list holds 43 entries: simplified and traditional Chinese are two ways of writing one language, and Cantonese is a language of its own).	Gives two different figures on its own site: "26+ Languages" on its homepage stat tile, "40+ languages" in its llms.txt document and FAQ. Neither page names the languages or says whether the count covers input, output, or both.
Tone, recipient, role	7 tones, 8 kinds of recipient plus named real people, and an author role from 100 professions or your own words — all picked explicitly.	14 named tones (Professional, Casual, Polite, Friendly, Romantic, Empathetic, Funny, Sarcastic, Angry, Flirty, Witty, Gen Z, Poetic, Shorten) plus free-text custom tone instructions. No separate recipient or role concept; "Clever Reply" auto-drafts a response in Neutral, Positive, or Negative.
Professions & vocabulary	100 professional vocabularies, up to 4 active at once, plus a personal dictionary of 200 terms and a forbidden-words list.	Not documented. The closest equivalent is a free-form "custom AI assistant" the user writes themselves.
Price & free tier	Free: 20 actions with no account or card, +50 after linking an email, one-time. Pro $9.99/month or $79/year on qenzo.ai, down to $1.99/month by region. No free trial.	Free: plain keyboard, no AI. Premium starts after a stated 2000-word trial, then $4.99/month or $35.99/year, per the pricing data published on CleverType's own site.
Desktop clients	Native apps for macOS, Windows and Linux, one codebase, working inside any application on the system.	Browser extensions for Chrome, Edge and Firefox, plus a native desktop app: its site links to a live macOS installer (.dmg) from its navigation and pricing page. No Windows or Linux build was found.
Voice messages	Sends the finished text as a spoken voice message in a clone of your own voice, in languages you don't personally speak (Pro).	Not documented anywhere on CleverType's site.
Model choice	7 model families: Gemini, GLM, DeepSeek free; Claude, GPT, Qwen, Kimi on Pro. Speech recognition itself doesn't switch.	Not documented. No mention of which AI model powers its features or any way to choose one.
Privacy	Recording is never written to disk; a private mode skips the history row; everything can be exported or deleted.	Says it doesn't store keystrokes and only processes text when an AI action is explicitly triggered; basic keyboard works offline.

Languages: speaking one vs translating text

Qenzo's language count describes two connected things: the language you speak in (42, or auto-detected) and the language your message arrives in for the reader, chosen per message from the same 42 — sending the same thought to a colleague in French and a client in Japanese without switching any setting. Simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese and Cantonese count as three separate output choices, not one.

CleverType's own site is inconsistent here: a stat tile on its homepage currently reads "26+ Languages," while its llms.txt document and FAQ say "40+ languages" — a general technical-specs figure, not one tied specifically to the translation tool, which is one of 20+ separate AI tools rather than a setting that applies to everything you send. Neither number is broken down by language.

Tone, recipient, and role

Qenzo separates three choices: tone (7 options, including a "my voice" tone built from how you actually write), recipient (8 kinds — boss, client, colleague, friend, family, partner, an official body, or nobody in particular — plus real people you add by name), and author role (100 professions in one tap, or your own description, which wins over the preset). All three are picked by the person, never guessed, and switching tone rewrites the existing text rather than making you dictate again.

CleverType offers 14 named tones plus the ability to write your own custom tone instruction — a wider preset menu than Qenzo's seven. It has no separate recipient or role axis; the nearest equivalent is Clever Reply, which auto-generates a response to an incoming message in a Neutral, Positive, or Negative style.

Professions and custom vocabulary

Qenzo's author role connects to structured vocabulary: up to four of its 100 professional vocabularies can be active at once, so trade terms get spelled correctly, and a pack can be opened, pruned, or extended. On top of that sits a personal dictionary of up to 200 names, brands, and terms Qenzo must recognize, a list of words the user never uses, and a "teach it a phrase" option that locks in a specific wording.

CleverType has no documented equivalent — no profession list, no personal dictionary, no forbidden-words list. Its closest feature is the free-form "custom AI assistant," where the user writes their own instructions rather than picking from a structured set.

Price and free tier

Qenzo's free tier needs no account and no card for the first 20 actions; linking an email adds 50 more, once, not a recurring refill. Qenzo Pro is $9.99/month or $79/year bought on qenzo.ai ($79.99/year in the app stores), with regional pricing down to $1.99/month in some countries. There is no free trial — nothing is charged until someone actually subscribes.

CleverType's free plan is the plain keyboard with no AI features at all. AI access opens through what CleverType calls a "2000-word free trial," after which Premium costs $4.99/month, or $35.99/year billed annually — figures taken from the pricing data published on CleverType's own pricing page, which agree with the "$4.99/month" its meta description advertises.

Desktop clients

Qenzo ships the same desktop client, built from one codebase, on macOS, Windows and Linux. Hold a key, speak, release, and the text lands in whatever window has focus — a terminal, a native app, a browser tab, anything.

CleverType's desktop reach is not limited to browser extensions. Alongside Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Firefox extensions, which work only on pages open in that browser, its site links to a downloadable native desktop app — a macOS installer (.dmg) — from its main navigation and its pricing page. The app's own marketing page returns a 404, but the download link itself is live; no Windows or Linux build was found.

Voice messages and model choice

Qenzo can turn the finished text into a spoken voice message using a clone of the user's own voice, recorded once from a short sample — including sending it in a language the user doesn't personally speak. This requires Qenzo Pro. Separately, users choose which of seven AI model families writes the final text (Gemini, GLM, and DeepSeek free; Claude, GPT, Qwen, and Kimi on Pro); the speech recognizer itself is fixed and chosen by measurement rather than offered as a preference.

CleverType's site makes no mention of voice messages, voice cloning, or any way to choose the AI model behind its rewriting, translation, or reply features.

Privacy

Qenzo states that recordings are never written to disk — held in memory only long enough to be transcribed, then discarded — and offers a private mode that dictates without leaving a history row; everything an account holds can be exported or deleted. CleverType states it does not store keystrokes and processes typed text only when an AI action is explicitly triggered, with its basic keyboard functioning fully offline. Both companies describe privacy-conscious designs on their own sites; neither claim was independently audited for this comparison.

Best AI keyboard for Android: dictation or typing?

Both Qenzo and CleverType ship as full system keyboards on Google Play, so "best" depends on which problem someone actually has. Someone who types comfortably and wants faster grammar fixes, a quick tone change, or a drafted reply without leaving the keyboard is closer to what CleverType builds for — 14 tones, Clever Reply, and 20+ one-tap writing tools, with a free plain-keyboard option and no AI required to use it.

Someone who would rather speak a message than type it — in one of 42 languages, arriving in a different language for the reader, addressed to a named person in the right tone, with names and numbers checked against the recording — is closer to what Qenzo builds for. Typing correction isn't its focus: it has no equivalent to CleverType's one-tap grammar-only fix for text typed elsewhere. A heavy typist and someone who'd rather talk are likely to end up with different apps, even though both are technically "AI keyboards for Android."