Clink: Custom Keyboards

Themes, fonts & swipe typing

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

A keyboard that's finally yours. Clink replaces the system keyboard with one you control: the look, the feel, the sound, the layout, the languages, and the tools built into it. Dictation is always free. Try everything else in the Clink app for nothing; to use the keyboard in your other apps, subscribe or buy it once for life. THEMES 59 built-in themes across solid, metal, 3D keycap and Liquid Glass materials, plus a theme builder that goes as deep as you want. Change fonts, gradients, key shape and outlines, or drop in your own photo. Extensive Mode lets you paint individual keys one by one. Share a theme as a .clinktheme file. Set it to follow Light and Dark Mode, or pin it to one look. LIQUID GLASS Ten glass variants: Dark, Light, Clear, Noir, Mint, Ember, Rose, Gold, Aqua and Violet. Keys are translucent and alive, and each one swells under your finger as you swipe. Needs iOS 26 and a recent iPhone. LAYOUTS QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ and Dvorak, plus proper layouts for Spanish, Portuguese, German, Turkish, Romanian, Croatian, Nordic, Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, Bulgarian, Arabic, Armenian, Korean 두벌식, Japanese kana and Pinyin. Clink Flow is built for two thumbs. Add a number row, tune height, width, spacing and roundness, add your own keys and rows, or split the keyboard down the middle so your thumbs reach less. SWIPE TYPING Trace a path and the word lands on lift. Turn on two-thumb double swipe and both thumbs glide at once. Overlap them to build one word together, keep them apart to type two. Swipe reads contractions, keeps the runner-up words one tap away, and learns what you use. Seven trail looks: Solid, Neon, Rainbow, Sparkle, Comet, Fire and Ocean. OFFLINE TEXT Autocomplete and autocorrect in 23 languages, all on device. No account, no network, works on a plane. It learns the fixes you make, catches real-word slips like tat into that, splits run-ons like alot, and resizes each key's touch target toward the letter you're most likely to hit next. On newer iPhones a small on-device model reads the whole sentence for next-word prediction. AI TOOLS Proofread, rewrite, shorten, expand, summarise, change tone, or draft a reply without leaving the text field. It runs on Apple Intelligence, on your iPhone. Write your own actions with your own prompts. Nothing is sent anywhere. DICTATION, FREE FOREVER Speak instead of typing. No trial, no limit, and it stays free even if you never buy Clink. HANDWRITING AND TRANSLATE Scrawl a word with your finger and Clink reads it. Translate what you're about to send into dozens of languages, offline once the pack is downloaded. PANELS Clipboard history with groups. A notepad that follows you between apps. A working calculator, a fast emoji picker with skin tones, and a trackpad for precise cursor work. You can also write your own panel in Python and it appears alongside them. PETS A small creature perches on your keyboard and reacts to your typing. It hops during fast bursts, startles at a delete, yawns and falls asleep when you pause. Seventeen of them, coloured from your theme. SOUNDS AND HAPTICS System click or a custom sound pack, with volume and haptics set as light or as firm as you like. PROFILES Save whole setups and switch between them. Sync your profiles and custom themes across your devices with iCloud, or export one to share. PRIVACY No accounts. No tracking. No network on the typing path. The app speaks eleven languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Malay, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Korean. WHAT COSTS WHAT Dictation is free. Everything else is free to try inside the Clink app, but using the keyboard in your other apps needs a subscription or the one-time lifetime purchase. Full Access is optional. It's only needed for haptics, clipboard history and custom sounds. Clink does not log keystrokes or send typing data anywhere. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

  • 3.9
    out of 5
    9 Ratings

Voice only, if that's all you came for. General, then Voice only, swaps the whole app for a single dictation screen: a pad you can talk into, and the couple of settings that change how dictation reads. Speak, and the text is there to copy, share or keep. Nothing switches off. Your keyboard, themes and tools go on working exactly as they do now, and one tap brings the rest back. Search that answers questions, not just words. Type "how do i add a language" into the bar on any tab. Settings you'd just flip anyway, like dictation, key sounds and autocorrect, now appear as switches in the results, so you turn them on without opening a page. Above the ordinary matches sit picks Apple Intelligence made from the same index. Every one is a real page, so a wrong guess is a wrong page, never invented advice. And a result on another tab now takes you to that tab, instead of burying the page inside the one you searched from. Ask Clink anything. The FAQ takes a question in your own words and writes the answer out of its own entries, with the ones it read listed underneath as links. When they don't cover it, it says so and points you at support rather than making something up. It's on the FAQ page and in the search results, and it runs on the phone. Sound and Haptics are two pages now, and every control auditions itself. The volume is a waveform that plays as you drag it, there's a keycap above the packs to hear the one you're on, and the feel pad fires under your finger as you set it. Make your own key sounds. Record a click with the mic or import one, trim and balance it into a pack, and send the pack to someone as a file. Four new bundled packs too: Tactile Brown, Clicky Blue, Typewriter and Marble. Pages that show you the thing instead of describing it. The swipe trail is a row of tiles that each draw the real trail in their own style. The clipboard hero acts a paste out in whichever style you're on, Bar, Panel, Grid or Bento. Emoji size and spacing are ramps of actual emoji rather than a dot on a rail. The keys either side of the space bar are one card with a scope switch, instead of the same grid hidden on three different screens. And Languages is the list of your languages again, with the settings that used to bury it moved into rows. Animated backgrounds work on any theme. Rain, embers and starfield used to belong to whichever theme carried them. Now you pick the look under Theme, Animated background, and it takes its colours from whatever theme you're on. It no longer needs the background switched on either, so the particles can drift over the app you're typing in. The standard iPhone Arabic layout, alongside the desktop-style one Clink already had. Arabic-Indic numerals are there too, under Languages, Numerals, if you want them on the 123 page. Your words can travel between devices. General, iCloud Sync, Learned words carries your dictionary to your iPad and back, encrypted, merged rather than replaced. A word you delete on one device stays deleted. Autocorrect fixes more of what you actually mistype. "I'd", "he'd", "she'd" and "we'd" finally get their apostrophes, and "id" and "shed" are judged by the sentence rather than a hand-written list. A whole word typed one key off ("gwkki" for "hello") now gets corrected. A number fat-fingered into a word no longer ruins it. Things like mp3 and covid19 are left alone. Swiping the next word finishes the one before it, the same way space does. A word learned in French stops defending a typo in your English. Learned words are remembered per language now. Typing a word and deleting it no longer teaches it. Arabic: around sixty everyday spoken words added, two-letter swaps demoted to suggestions, and the number pages give proper Arabic punctuation instead of the Latin marks. Fixed: recent emoji no longer vanish between sessions, and clipboard history can skip images.

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    Seller
    • William Whitehouse
    Size
    • 265.5 MB
    Category
    • Utilities
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
    Languages
    English and 10 more
    • English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    • Clink Monthly $0.99
    • Clink Lifetime $19.99
    • Clink Yearly $9.99
    Copyright
    • © 2026 William Whitehouse