Boards.com

Review by eFreeware

Boards.com is a keyboard app built by the company of the same name, and its purpose is narrow on purpose: it keeps the sales and marketing material you send to customers on the keyboard itself, so you can reach it in a single tap instead of hunting through notes, drives and chat threads. You create a board, fill it with texts, images, videos, PDFs and links, then switch to the Boards keyboard whenever you need to paste something into a conversation.

That is the whole idea, and it is a sensible one for anyone whose work happens inside messaging apps. The app is free, carries no ads, and has in-app purchases. It has been installed more than a million times and holds a 4.6 average from 17,584 ratings, which suggests the core trick works for the people who need it.

Built for people who sell from a phone

The developer lists direct sellers, affiliates, influencers, realtors, brand ambassadors, freelancers and car dealers among the intended users, along with anyone else who works primarily from a phone. The common thread is repetition: these are roles where the same product description, price list, FAQ answer or introduction gets sent dozens of times a week, often while standing in a parking lot or between appointments.

Customer support is the other obvious fit. If your job involves answering the same questions about specifications, shipping or availability, having those answers one tap away in the same window where the conversation is happening cuts out a lot of switching. Onboarding is a third case the developer highlights: new team members can be handed a prepared board rather than a folder of documents spread across platforms.

What appeals to me here is that the app does not try to be a CRM or a note-taking system. It sits in the keyboard layer, which is where the sending actually happens. If your content lives in five different places and you retype it constantly, this addresses that specific annoyance rather than asking you to change how you work.

A board for every product line

The organizing unit is the board, and the developer says you can create unlimited boards for free. Each one holds whatever you need to send: plain text for scripts and pitches, images, videos, PDFs and links. Folders and subfolders let you sort boards by theme or topic, so a realtor might keep one folder per neighborhood and a car dealer one per model line.

The comparison with sticker and GIF keyboards is a fair way to think about it. You add the Boards keyboard to your device the same way, switch to it when you need it, and switch back when you are done typing. That means the learning curve is mostly about building the library in the first place, not about mastering a complicated interface.

Getting content in is straightforward by the sound of it, and the most recent update adds a second route: Boards now appears in the share sheet, so a link, image or PDF can be sent to a chosen board or page directly from another app. For anyone who collects material as they browse, that removes a step that would otherwise involve saving a file and uploading it later.

Sending content without leaving the conversation

Once the keyboard is active, the content you stored is available inside whatever app you are typing in. Facebook, Instagram, Gmail, TikTok, WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage and Messenger are named as examples, and the keyboard works on any messaging platform. In practice that means a sales script or a product video can go out without closing the chat, opening a file manager and coming back.

This is the feature that decides whether the app is useful to you. If your customer conversations happen in one or two apps on a computer, a keyboard-based library is less compelling. If they happen on your phone across several apps, the value is obvious: the same board is available everywhere you type, and you are not rebuilding your content for each platform.

The update also mentions a refreshed look for tiles, with cleaner folder presentation and larger previews for video and image content. That matters more than it sounds, because a library of visual assets is only quick to use if you can recognize what you are looking at before you send it.

Sharing a library across a team

Boards goes beyond a personal collection. Boards can be shared with teammates, so a team leader can distribute prepared content that appears on each member's own device keyboard. Updates work the same way: add a product, change a price or launch a promotion, and the change reaches the shared board so everyone is working from the same material.

Notifications cover board edits and updates, which is the sensible companion to that. On a team where the price list changes weekly, knowing that a board was edited is the difference between sending current information and sending last month's numbers.

There is also an analytics side. You can look at how your team engages with the content and see which pieces get shared most and perform best. That is a reasonable way to decide what to keep, what to rewrite and what to drop, though it is worth treating those insights as guidance about usage rather than proof that any particular script closes sales.

The developer offers in-app purchases alongside the free download. The free tier is described as allowing unlimited boards, so a solo seller can build a substantial library without paying anything.

What it costs and what comes with it

It contains no advertising, which is unusual for a free productivity tool and welcome in an app that sits directly in your typing flow. It does offer in-app purchases.

The clearest free commitment is unlimited boards, which covers the main use case for an individual. If you are evaluating it for a team, the reasonable approach is to start with your own boards, see whether the keyboard habit sticks, and treat the team and analytics features as something to look into once you know the app fits how you work.

The app is rated for Everyone and has been available since August 2020, with the most recent update dated October 6, 2026. That is a long enough run to suggest the keyboard approach is being maintained rather than abandoned, and the recent changes address practical complaints about text edits not saving and status-bar overlaps.

How it compares with other ways of storing content

The alternative most people already use is a notes app or a cloud document, kept open in a second window or copied from repeatedly. That works, and it costs nothing, but it means leaving the conversation to retrieve something and pasting it back in, which is exactly the friction Boards is designed to remove. A dedicated text-expander or clipboard manager solves part of the problem too, though those tend to handle short snippets rather than videos, PDFs and images.

A shared drive is the other common option for teams, and it has the advantage of holding everything in one place with familiar permissions. What it does not do is put a prepared script on a seller's keyboard mid-conversation. The trade-off is real: a drive is better for long documents and version history, while Boards is better for the material you actually send to customers.

There is also the option of building something in a messaging platform itself, using saved replies or quick responses. Those are convenient but usually tied to one app, whereas Boards works across any messaging platform you type in. If your customer contact is spread over several apps, that difference matters.

A useful layer for phone-first sellers

Boards.com solves one problem well: getting the right content into a customer conversation without breaking your flow. The free download, the absence of ads and the unlimited boards make it easy to try, and the keyboard approach means the library travels with you across whatever apps you use to talk to customers. For direct sellers, realtors, support staff and freelancers who work from a phone, that is a meaningful improvement over copying and pasting from scattered notes.

The team side is where the app becomes more than a personal convenience. Sharing boards, pushing updates in real time, notifying people about edits and seeing which content gets used most gives a sales manager a way to keep a distributed group on the same material. That is a different purchase decision from the individual one.

The main thing to weigh is whether your content actually lives in conversations. If you send the same scripts, catalogs and answers through messaging apps all day, this is a tidy fit. If your work is mostly documents and email on a computer, a keyboard library will not add much. For the phone-first crowd, it looks like a well-targeted tool at a low cost of entry.

What's new in version 3.11.0

Make your Boards your own. • Set a cover for any Board or folder with a gradient or your own photo. • A fresh look for tiles: cleaner folders, bolder video and image previews. • Boards now appears in your phone's share sheet. Share a link, image or PDF from any app and pick the Board or Page it goes to. Plus fixes for text edits not saving, status-bar overlaps, and offline errors. Thanks for using Boards!