Clink
The iOS keyboard you actually own
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Clink - The iOS keyboard you actually own

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Clink is a custom iOS keyboard and a place for indie apps and brands to live on it. Themes, layouts and tools you control, plus partners who put their brand in the thing you type with all day. Privacy focused and headed to Android soon!

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Hey! Will here, I make Clink. We've had it on the App Store for a few months already. Kept putting Product Hunt off until the keyboard felt solid enough that I wouldn't flinch showing it to people who actually care about this stuff. Short version: it's a custom iOS keyboard. Themes, layouts, swipe typing, offline autocorrect. No Clink account, and normal typing stays on your phone. If you install it, tell me what feels wrong. That's more useful to me than anything else.
I've been using Clink in beta form for a while now as I was frustrated with the stock Apple keyboard, and others. Clink is the most customisable keyboard I have found and probably the most accurate too. Lots of features which allow me to remove other apps too. Wishing you well with the Product Hunt launch 🚀.
Maker

 Thanks for your continuous support <3

I've tried a very keyboards over the last few months looking for a native iOS look and feel yet somehow also being an improvement on the native offering. i'm genuinely blown away at how native Clink feels but while also being a massive improvement on the actual native iOS experience. I've switched and hoping to keep it that way.

Maker
thank you mate

"normal typing stays on your phone, no Clink account" is the right thing to lead with, a keyboard is the single highest-trust surface on the whole device since iOS makes you grant Full Access just to get past the default one. that's also what makes the brand-partner model in the description a little confusing to me: if a partner's theme or content lives in the keyboard you type with all day, what exactly are they getting, presence/attention only, or does their integration need any network call while you're typing? genuinely asking, not assuming the answer is bad, just that this is the one category of app where "trust me" isn't enough on its own.

Maker
They really don’t get anything other than their own themes inside of Clink, and a link to their website! For instance 2 of the most notable brands are Quiche and NuPhy. With their permission, I was able to build a keyboard that matched Quiches aesthetic inside their app. And got a chance to bring some of my favorite mechanical keyboards onto phones. Clink doesn’t require full access and we’re very open during the setup what full access is for, which is custom haptics and custom sounds. The only networked calls, which are trackable via app reports are made to open source github repos where languages, themes, and extra content is hosted and all are linked inside the app itself.
Maker
I do understand the concern! And it sucks but I’ve tried being as transparent as possible with it.