NuKeyNuKey documentation
34 step-by-step guides covering every feature and every setting, from adding the keyboard in iOS to building your own switch. Start at the top, or search for what you need.
Getting started
Install NuKey, switch it on in iOS and find your way around.
Install and switch NuKey on
Add NuKey to iOS, allow Full Access, and get the globe key pointing at it. About two minutes.
A tour of the app
Where everything lives: the home hub, the Keys menu, and what each section is for.
Free and NuKey Pro
What you get for nothing, what NuKey Pro adds, and how the one-off payment works.
Nuke Mode Pro
A bare-bones turbo keyboard built for speed, on its own button.
Making it yours
Themes, keycaps, legends, lighting, backgrounds, sound and layout.
Themes and keyboard slots
Pick a built-in board, build your own, and keep up to thirty-two keyboards in slots.
Building a keyboard
The keyboard builder from first colour to finished board: key groups, gradients, cap styles, glow and Light/Dark editing.
Keycap artwork and the Sculptor Pro
Print a photo on a key, wrap the whole board in artwork, add a symbol behind a legend, or mould a cap shape of your own.
Key legends and fonts
Choose a typeface, weight and size for the letters, nudge them into place, or download any of 400 Google fonts.
Lighting Pro
Light under the keys: thirty-seven patterns, colour, speed, brightness and a flash as each key goes down.
Lighting Studio Pro
Design your own three-channel light rig, fit it, and share it as a code.
Backgrounds
Give the deck behind the keys a colour, or a gradient of up to five that drifts, flows or breathes.
Feel: switches, sound and haptics Pro
Sixteen recorded switches, separate sound and haptic strength, and a way to hear it before you commit.
Switch Builder Pro
Shape a key feel of your own, up to eight of them: haptic puck, sound recording, pitch, tone and decay.
Layout
Pick a key grid, then reshape key height, row gaps and left or right reach for your hands.
Writing
Autocorrect, swipe typing, touch learning, proofreading, languages and emoji.
Autocorrect and suggestions
How Word Correction, the suggestion bar and smart punctuation work, and how NuKey learns the way you write.
My Words and Quick Text
Teach NuKey your names and slang, and expand short codes like “omy” into whole phrases.
Swipe typing and gestures
Glide across the letters, then use swipes on Delete and the space bar for fast editing.
NuKey Adapt
A keyboard that learns where your fingers land and quietly moves each invisible touch target to meet them.
Proofreading and Rewrite
A companion on the suggestion bar that checks your paragraph with Apple Intelligence on the device, and rewrites it on request.
Languages and layouts
Forty-seven languages, QWERTY/QWERTZ/AZERTY arrangements, and typing in two or three languages without switching.
Emoji
Skin tone, a dedicated emoji row, suggestions as you type and a history that follows you.
On the keyboard
Every key, control and little extra that lives on the board itself.
The Keys menu: every setting
A complete reference to the Keys menu: top row, space bar, typing, touch accuracy, utility keys and starting over.
Board Controls: knob, button and toggles Pro
A rotary knob, a push button and two toggle switches on the bar, all of them recoloured and mapped by you.
Clipboard Pro
Search, pin and organise everything you copy, straight from the keyboard.
Keyboard Extras Pro
Nineteen small features that live on the keyboard's surfaces: a pet, clocks, games, a calculator, converters and more.
Typing stats
Your speed over time and a heatmap of where you press. Counted on your phone, shared only by you.
Automation and memory
Run Shortcuts from a key, and put back text an app threw away.
Sharing and Studio
Pass keyboards around as codes, and design on a big screen.
Your setup
Accessibility, iPhone Duo, privacy and fixing things.
Accessibility
Legible, quiet and yours to tune: legends, VoiceOver, Reduce Motion, text size, sound and contrast.
iPhone Duo
NuKey on both screens of iPhone Duo, with a split keyboard on the unfolded display.
Privacy, iCloud and Full Access
What stays on your phone, what syncs, and why each permission is asked for.
Troubleshooting
Fixes for the things people ask first: a missing keyboard, silent haptics, changes that do not show, and starting over.
Nothing matches that. Try a shorter word, or ask on the feedback board.