Aula F75 Max Review

Aula has been making some the best budget keyboards in recent times, and they covered most of the popular form factors with the F75, F65 and the F87 in 2024.

And it looks like they started 2025 off with yet another budget beast.

Aula F75 was a really good budget keyboard, offering unprecedented value at its price, everyone loved it. It had its flaws though, and it seems that Aula has managed to fix them with this MAX revision of the keyboard

Hello everyone, my name is Fang and today, I’ll be reviewing the Aula F75 MAX. Let’s find out together if this MAX version of the Aula F75 manage to do better than its legendary predecessor. You can watch the full review here if you want this review accompanied with video.

DISCLAIMER : This unit was sent to me by Aula to be reviewed. This has no impact on the review, and all the opinions in this review are honest and my own.

The Aula F75 MAX comes in a cool little cardboard box. It has the same mascot and a similar design as the F65 box.

In the box you will get:

• a manual for the keyboard
• a plastic dust cover
• a quick shortcuts guide
• the keyboard wrapped in a plastic protective sheath
• a USB A to C cable for charging and wired connection
• a basic keycap and switch puller
• and a couple of extra switches (matching the variant that you chose with your keyboard)

The Aula F75 MAX comes in 2 colourways:

1. The Blue colourway, which features a white body with a white and blue tri-colour keycap set
2. The Black colourway which comes with a black, sideprinted keycap set.

You can get the keyboard only with Leobog Reaper Switches currently. If you’d like to change those out, you can easily do so because the F75 Max has a hotswap PCB.

The Aula F75 Max is a compact 75% ANSI US layout, with 80 keys, a tactile knob and a screen.

It’s a gasket mounted keyboard which gives it a nice bouncy feel.

The PCB is partially flex cut which gives it a softer, flexible typing feel. I like flex cut PCB but some people prefer non-flex cut. As most things in this hobby, it’s all up to YOUR preference. But you’ll only know after you try them out.

The F75 Max comes with five layers of sound absorbing padding, which dampen any echo inside the case and leads to a pleasing, deep sound profile.

It has got a good RGB implementation which is very bright and has more lighting patterns than the original F75. It has south facing LEDs and the Reaper switches have a nice light diffuser installed which makes the RGB shine through bright but without harshness.

The switches that the F75 Max comes with are the Leobog Reaper Switches. Here are the specs to the switch.

It comes with plate mount stabilizers out of the box and they perform really well. The board is also compatible with screw-in stabilizers if you wish to experiment.

It has tri-mode connectivity and so far I haven’t had any issues with connectivity or interference. It is compatible with Mac, Windows, Android and Linux. It doesn’t come with any extra mac keycaps.

The keyboard has a 1000Hz polling rate which is an industry standard. Do note that it’s only 1000Hz in the 2.4ghz and wired connection mode. In bluetooth mode, it has a 125hz polling rate.

The keyboard has 3ms of latency when used wired, 7ms when used in 2.4ghz and 18ms of latency when used in bluetooth 5.0 mode. These are good numbers and I never get any latency issues.

The F75 max comes with a 4000mah battery, and from my testing, the battery life is quite good. With the RGB off, the keyboard lasted about 80 hours (roughly 2 weeks) and with the RGB on it lasted about 30 hours(about a week).

The stock keycaps on the F75 Max are doubleshot PBT, Cherry profile keycaps on my colour variant and they’re actually quite nice. The colours are vibrant and the legends are sharp and consistent.

The Aula F75 Max has height adjustable feet with three levels of adjustment.

This keyboard is fully hotswapable with 5 pin and 3 pin switches. 5 pin switches are more stable but 3 pin switches are usually a lot cheaper.

The F75 MAX has a MUCH improved knob compared to the flimsy mess that was on the F75. It has clear, audible clicks when rotating and it feels very nice. I primarily use the knob to change the volume but the knob also has other functionality. Which brings us to screen.

The Aula F75 MAX has a TFT screen, which seems like a gimmick at first but it’s actually quite handy. It has a few useful functions:

• It displays the battery level of the keyboard as a percentage which is very handy
• It has a clock which displays the current time
• You can add any gif upto 255 frames in length, and the software allows you to make custom gifs from images as well.
• You can change the keyboard’s conection mode between mac, ios, android, windows using the knob and the screen.
• You can change the RGB lighting on the keyboard using the screen and knob. The rgb pattern, the brightness, the speed of animations, the colours, everything.
• You can switch between languages using the screen as well

I wish you could disable certain settings, because I would never use the language setting so it’s just taking up space on the menu for no reason.

Aula F75 MAX software is quite robust and user friendly. VIA would definitely have been better, but in terms of proprietary software, this keyboard’s software is quite nice. You get all the customisation you would need in a keyboard in simple and easy to use menus.

The F75 Max looks really nice. The spacing between the keys is very comfortable to type on and the RGB shows through the space very nicely. It doesn’t have the nice RGB sideglow that we got to see on the F65 and F87 last year, which is a shame. It would have been a nice addition to the F75 MAX.

The star of the show is the new TFT screen though. This screen is what sets it apart from the regular F75 visually. The placement of the screen is tasteful, and in my opinion it’s in the best spot that it could be in. I’m glad the size of the screen matches the size of the switch row holes cuz it looks very jank if it doesn’t match.

The tactile knob is a joy to use and I keep fiddling with it because it’s just so satisfying. They nailed the sound.

The mode switch and the USB C port for wired connection and charging are located on the left side of the keyboard. It’s my favourite spot as it looks nice, and any coiled cable tat I use won’t get in the way of the mouse.

Speaking of the mode switch, I’m glad they have an easily accessible one. I dislike it when manufacturers put the mode/power switch under the caps lock or under the space bar.

The included keycaps are nice. They’re not gonna blow your mind or anything, but they’re good quality, are of decent thinckness, and sound good. The print of the legends are mostly consistent and sharp. There is slight inconsistency in the thickness of the legends between the different coloured keycaps, but it’s not really noticeable unless you look closely at it and search for it.

The variant I have has the colour scheme of the GMK shoko keycaps. The texture on the keycaps is smooth but grippy. It’s not matte, but it almost feels like a nice mouse surface. It’s good. Very pleasant to type on.

The stock reaper switches are very nice. They’re factory lubed and the lube job is actually quite good. They have a very smooth typing feel and feel very consistent across the board. The bottom out is nice and smooth. The reapers have a nice deep, poppy and thocky sound in this keyboard.

The kick-up feet are a nice-to-have feature. I usually don’t use them while typing but I use them often when I’m typing reclined on my chair or when playing osu.

The Aula F75 MAX looks like it’s a strong contender for one of the best budget keyboards of 2025. But at its full price of 80 USD, you can find some good aluminium boards, or boards with VIA support. I think this keyboard’s value will truly shine during sales.

In 2025, Hall Effect keyboards seems to be the new wave, but currently, most hall effect keyboards sound terrible. So for most people, a regular mechanical keyboard is still the way to go in my opinion. It is infinitely more customisable in terms of the switches available and the cost of said switches. For example, you can’t get tactile or clicky switches in a hall effect keyboard.

The F75 MAX has managed to improve over the regular F75 in the areas that it was lacking, and gives us another solid option to pick from.

I recommend this keyboard to anyone on a budget, and it is especially going to be an incredible experience for beginners to the mechanical keyboard hobby.