Clink: Custom Keyboards — version history

1.8.1 — The Live Fix I’ve worked through a big batch of your feedback since The Live Update. This release brings smoother typing, better language support, more control over your keyboard, and fixes for the little things that get in your way. • Improved single-thumb swipe recognition, including swiped words replacing recently typed words and the first letter flashing before a swipe finishes. • Swipe typing better respects Shift and capitalization, including day and month names where appropriate. • Improved autocorrection for missed spaces, swapped letters and combined typos. Clear corrections apply more reliably on Space, while valid words and verb endings are better preserved. • Better Vietnamese swipe recognition, Italian apostrophe handling, and Arabic words containing alternate or long-press letters. • Improved Chinese typing with uppercase entry using Shift, working text replacements and refinements to Pinyin swipe input. • More word and single-character candidates for continuous Pinyin, letting you convert a phrase in smaller parts and continue with the remaining input. Plugin suggestions now appear in Chinese input mode. • Fixed downloaded language-pack updates not taking effect in the keyboard. • Added Urdu and Roman Urdu typing support, with easier access to Polish characters and the Indian rupee symbol in Hinglish. • Improved right-to-left typing behavior for Arabic in WhatsApp and other apps. • Switch languages with a spacebar swipe, see the active language more clearly, and choose your starting language more reliably. • Key swipe shortcuts no longer insert an unwanted character before performing their action. Better selection handling makes copy and cut gestures more reliable. • Added a Cut key for custom layouts and an Open Clink shortcut for custom keys or the top bar, so you can jump straight to the app. • Fixed double-space punctuation, number-row changes from orientation automations, and Backspace sometimes inserting a letter instead of deleting. • Smoother clipboard history scrolling in the app and keyboard, with a Save button that responds more reliably to one tap. • Fixed emoji searches affected by extra spaces, category tabs keeping their previous scroll position, and Backspace getting stuck with repeated haptics. • Improved emoji layout editing when the top-bar button is hidden, and fixed overlapping rows in taller layouts. • More control over long-press hint positioning in Canvas, independent of main key labels, with positions preserved when saving and sharing. • Theme edits are better preserved after dictation. Custom-key colours, cap styles and Canvas edits carry through exports and imported previews more consistently, including when some key styles differ. • Fixed clipped bottom-row shadows in Retro and Modern themes, including previews, and improved background-effect continuity. • Community browsing now loads more creations as you scroll. Cards are more compact and consistent, with clearer descriptions and separate QR and Download controls. • Share Community creations directly through styled QR cards that keep the original link, without importing or uploading another copy. • Sharper expanded GIF previews where higher-resolution images are available. • Fixed AI rewriting and paraphrasing unexpectedly changing the language of your text. • Improved keyboard preview alignment and tool interactions, and stopped in-app Feedback pages from scrolling sideways. • Improved keyboard opening and app-switch handling, with lifecycle fixes affecting Liquid Glass themes. Memory improvements reduce unnecessary prediction loading and address reports of interruptions, swipe limits and heat during longer sessions. • More reliable text replacement suggestions, including superscript characters such as ² and ³. Thank you for every report, suggestion, and tiny detail. Your feedback keeps making Clink better.

Style improvements: We’ve polished the Gamepad, Ice, and Molten styles. Better popups: The balloon popup has finally been redesigned, and floating and balloon popups now match your theme and key rounding. Quick hotfix: Languages can be deleted again.

Clink 1.3 is a massive update. Here’s what’s new: • Neural autocorrect is now available in Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Malay, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. It understands the sentence around what you’re typing, catches more real-word mistakes and is much less likely to “fix” names, slang or words you actually meant. • AI Tools lets you proofread, rewrite, shorten, translate, change tone or draft a reply without leaving the keyboard. You can create your own actions, edit the built-in prompts and see exactly what changed with underlines, an inline diff or a change list. It uses Apple Intelligence on supported devices. • Custom Actions and Custom Panels are now available to everyone. Build your own text actions and complete keyboard panels in Python, test them in the built-in editor and share them as files. Everything runs locally on your device. • Custom keys are much more powerful. Keys can have separate tap, shift, hold and swipe actions, sit on the number row, stay beside the space bar across layouts or open any built-in or custom panel. You can also import, export, duplicate and share complete layouts. • Korean now has full dubeolsik Hangul input. Vietnamese supports Telex, VNI and VIQR. Croatian, Arabic, Bulgarian and Hungarian have received proper layouts, dictionaries and input improvements. Adding a language now picks a suitable layout automatically. • Themes got a huge upgrade. There are loads of new themes, raised 3D keycaps, brushed metal finishes, key outlines, improved custom typefaces and more key press, entrance, letter and delete animations. • Backgrounds can now move and react while you type. Choose from Aurora, Rain, Embers, Starfield, Snow, Confetti, Fireworks, Lava and more, then adjust the colours, speed, density and reaction strength. They pause automatically when your phone needs to save power or memory. • Clink Pets have arrived. Pick from 17 little keyboard friends that watch you type, react to words and deletes, fall asleep when you stop and wake up when you return. • The clipboard now supports named groups and smart filters for links, email addresses, phone numbers and images. • The new haptic feel pad lets you adjust sharpness and strength together, with a live preview as you drag. • The whole Clink app has been rebuilt with native iOS navigation, controls, sheets, frosted cards and swipeable settings pages. There’s a lot under the hood too. Autocorrect and prediction now stay off the touch path, repeated work has been removed and haptics land as soon as you press a key. Fast typing should feel smoother, suggestions should be steadier and corrections should be both quicker and less aggressive. We’ve also fixed number pads opening incorrectly in empty fields, invisible suggestion text on transparent keyboards, overlapping emoji, disappearing recent emoji, theme preview issues, audio and haptic problems, and a long list of smaller keyboard bugs.

Clink 1.2 is the biggest update yet. Split keyboard. Open a gap down the middle so the keys pull to the edges and your thumbs reach less. Tune the gap, set where each row breaks, and let the edge letter and space bar drift to whichever thumb is free. Better swipe typing. Swipe now reads contractions like don't and you're, keeps the runner-up words one tap away when it guesses wrong, and learns the words you use. Dress the trail in seven looks: Neon, Rainbow, Sparkle, Comet, Fire, Ocean, and Solid. Smarter corrections. Clink learns the fixes you make over and over, catches real-word slips like tat into that, splits run-on words like alot into a lot, and ranks suggestions by what fits the word before them. Number and phone pads. Number, decimal, and phone fields now get a proper digit pad instead of the letter keyboard, themed to match. Languages. Type in several languages at once or switch one at a time with a swipe up on Return. The app itself now speaks ten languages. Profiles. Save whole setups and switch between them, export a single profile to share, and choose whether an imported config replaces your settings or becomes a new profile. First-run intro. A quick welcome that walks you through setup. Replay it any time from the home screen. New app icon! Plus swipe between settings tabs, a symbol long-press preset, host field traits honored like the system keyboard, per-row glass rendering for less heat, and more.