Keybuild

Best keyboard for iOS.

Using this app to replicate my very custom 48 key ortholinear layout. Works pretty well. Would like to see - Hold for layer switch (and revert on release) - Auto switch back to base layer when hitting a key (ie. space bar) - Ability to add keys like Tab and Escape (not sure if possible via apple APIs).

Installed this because I wanted a way to use the Dvorak left-hand keyboard layout on my phone, if I was going to switch to it on my computer. I've been able to recreate it pretty well, but the app is so enormously flexible I've been able to fit in a ton of special characters over my three panes (fractions and other maths-y ones, the Esperanto accented characters, etc.). If you have any kind of quirky desires for your iOS keyboard, this is the app for you. It's worth noting that the keyboards don't have the same "smart" features as the mainstream ones: no swipe-to-type, autocorrect or predictive text, for example. But honestly, I'm finding that I don't miss these features as much as I thought I would; it's actually really refreshing not to have to do battle with autocorrect every time I use a proper name it doesn't know, or really want to start a line with a lowercase letter. Overall, the app does exactly what it sets out to do, and does it well. I'm really impressed.

Finally able to make it work… took forever to figure out how to add the keyboard. Still figuring out the app now… trying to figure out how to remove the shift function all together

It would be nice if a 3D press option could be added to have more than just upper and lowercase letters for a single key. Also, maybe in the future support for moving the cursor forward and backward words similar to vim would be cool to see. And auto correction if that is possible because it doesn’t work on mine. Thanks

App does everything it says it does and more but I wish the sga symbols where included

Does the app support swipe typing, auto corrections? iPad default layout doesn’t seem to support basic extra features like those

For a while now I've beed designing keyboard layouts with higher efficiency than QWERTY, like TEIOUM, TRHIEO, and more recently, Quartet. I've been trying to find an app that could actually let me use the layouts to test them, but the only apps I found weren't that great or made you pay to use the outside of the app, often with higher prices than the 3.99$USD this costed, so eventually I tried this, and not only was I able to use my keyboard layouts, I was even able to link between various keyboards, for symbols, etc, add things like emojis, and even add keys which would type multiple keys, which would have saved me thousands of keystrokes if I had been using them in the past, since I often do a lot of manual database management. Overall, I'd recommend this to anyone who needs a truly custom keyboard in one way or another. 10/10. - PF

I can't BELIEVE I went so long not knowing this app exists. I'm a language nerd, and it's always driven me crazy that almost none of the iOS keyboards for various languages have dedicated keys for diacritic marks (the way the German keyboard has keys for umlauts), so I made a modified version of the Portuguese keyboard that has keys for the tilde, circumflex, and acute accents, using Unicode combination characters that I copied from Wikipedia. I was worried it would be a huge headache, or that the app wouldn't even support extended Unicode, but it only took me like 15 minutes. The interface is so simple, and incredibly easy to use considering how flexible it is; my use for it has been pretty straightforward so far, but it really feels like it offers a staggering amount of customizability without having to navigate a labrynth of submenus. It did crash once the first time I converted a text stack into a key stack, but it autosaved my changes, and that was the only real glitch I encountered. I'm no app developer, but this seems like a masterpiece of GUI design compared to the loads of other apps that manage to overcomplicate simple tasks or overlook obvious use-cases. Just an amazing app, and absolutely worth the cup-of-coffee price.

Would like to be able to move or change all the other keys such as “upper case, delete, return, 123, globe,” etc… if you can idk how to. Otherwise pretty good app