Clink: Custom Keyboards
William Whitehouse Utilities iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Clink: Custom Keyboards is a free Utilities app for iPhone and iPad by William Whitehouse. Rated 3.8/5 from 39 ratings. Requires iOS 17.0.
- Rating
- 3.8
- 39 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 194 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 19
- 2026 · v1.9.0
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About Clink: Custom Keyboards
Clink is a custom keyboard for iPhone and iPad. Choose how it looks, arrange the keys, change the sounds and keep useful tools close to where you type. Start with a preset you like, or make a keyboard of your own. Choose a simple theme, metal keys, raised 3D keycaps or translucent Liquid Glass. Change colours, fonts, gradients, outlines and key shapes. Set separate themes for Light and Dark Mode. The live preview lets you type while you make changes. Add a photo background or put artwork on individual keys, with framing controls to get the placement right. Canvas mode lets you edit each key. Export your theme to share it, or import one someone else has made. Choose QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ, Dvorak or a layout for your language. Try Clink Flow for two thumbs. Add a number row, use a split keyboard or switch to one-handed mode. Adjust height, width and spacing, and add custom keys and rows for text or functions. Tap or swipe to type. Two-thumb word composition lets either hand continue the same word, combining taps and glides. Keep a simple swipe trail or choose one with colour, sparks or a comet tail. Autocomplete, autocorrect and swipe decoding work on your device, without an internet connection. Clink can learn your words and the corrections you reject; learning can be switched off or reset. Text replacements, smart punctuation and automatic capitals help with everyday typing. Use combined suggestions for multiple languages or keep them separate. Clink includes Japanese kana, Chinese Pinyin and Korean input, with language packs available to download. Features depend on the language and installed resources. Slide on the spacebar to move the cursor, or use trackpad mode for more control. Adjust sensitivity and activation timing to suit your hands. Predictive flick lets you accept suggestions directly from the keys. Clipboard history keeps saved clips in groups. The notepad holds text you want to use again, and the calculator handles quick sums and conversions. Find emoji with search, recent choices and skin tones. Arrange the panels around what you use. Use dictation when you would rather speak, handwriting to write with your finger, or translation to prepare text in another language. Supported translation works offline after its resources are downloaded. Dictation may use Apple's speech services. On compatible devices, writing tools use Apple's on-device models to proofread, rewrite, shorten, expand or summarise text. Change the tone or prepare a reply, then review it before use. Apple Intelligence support and downloaded models are required. Choose a system click or sound pack, set the volume and tune the haptics. Adjust how keys move and respond. Add lighting, stickers or a small pet that reacts as you type. Save setups as profiles and switch between them from the keyboard. Optional iCloud sync carries profiles and custom themes between devices. Text clipboard history and learned vocabulary sync are separate choices, both off by default. Build custom actions for repeated tasks or write a panel using the built-in Python subset. Add compatible theme, layout, font and sound packs to extend your setup. No Clink account, ads or cross-app tracking. Ordinary typing does not send your text to a server. Core typing works without Full Access; clipboard access, haptics, custom sounds and shared settings use that permission. Downloads, purchases, iCloud and some speech features need a connection. Requires iOS 17 or later. Liquid Glass, translation and Apple Intelligence features depend on your iOS version, device, language and available resources. Setup walks you through adding Clink in iOS Settings. Switch to it with the globe key wherever custom keyboards are supported. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Ratings & reviews
3.8
39 ratings
What’s new
Version 1.9.0 · Updated October 19, 2026
1.9 — Revved and Redefined An overhauled typing engine, more thoughtful suggestions and new ways to create your keyboard, with refinements throughout Clink. - Context-aware typing: corrections, word suggestions and next-word predictions use the surrounding sentence to help you keep your flow. - Improved correction of missing and swapped letters, accidentally joined words and longer words, with better protection for intended words and names. - More useful suggestions when an unfinished word contains a typo, while keeping exact matches and learned words prominent. - Better single-word swipe alternatives and context-aware ranking to help distinguish similar gestures, with more reliable previews as languages become ready. - Improved multilingual typing and language switching, with additional context support across several languages and mixed-language combinations. - More relevant emoji suggestions using localized names, language and sentence context, including country mentions and short Chinese and Korean words. - More compact typing dictionaries, smaller emoji caches and less repeated prediction work to help keep keyboard memory use under control. - Create editable themes from keyboard photos: improved angled-key detection, more consistent letter-key colors, preserved accent keys, source-key inspection and smoother preview transitions. Photos are processed on your device. - A new Bubble style with rounded, softly reflective keys and a translucent-looking rim, available in the theme editor, Canvas, previews and shared themes. - Keyboard2 theme imports preserve supported colors, gradients, key styling, photos and light/dark appearances. - Smoother rendering for customized Brick and Modern themes, more responsive Neowriter finish previews, and fixes for Bevel and keyboard-preview crashes. - Autosave keeps changes to your active custom profile, with the manual save workflow available when disabled. Widget profile switching now consistently follows your membership access. - Independent one-handed width and glyph sizing, plus a simpler side control with corrected gutter-drag direction. - Hold A to Select All joins the clipboard shortcut preset. Supported apps can select the text; apps that cannot support keyboard-driven selection keep it unchanged. - Clearer Gboard replacement import and export controls in a dedicated Transfer tab. - A clearer AI working indicator and compact, accessible controls for replacing, inserting, copying and retrying results. - Simpler theme headers, paired-theme editing, import menus and color/gradient popups, with clearer selected accents and better preview spacing. - More compact Home, switcher and plugin browsing controls. Long plugin version labels stay within the screen, and Community cards leave more room for their content. - Clearer swipe, emoji, clipboard and toolbar settings; a pinned emoji preview; more compact Handwriting, Pets and Haptics controls; and lighter Dictation style previews. - Full-page sound and effect editors, cleaner sound and effect controls, and simpler theme-publisher sheets. - An updated onboarding tools tour and consistent card heights for layout and tool choices. - The iOS navigation bar now stays visible while scrolling, keeping your next destination within reach.
App privacy
The developer, William Whitehouse, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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