Brightkey is the ultimate keyboard for iOS with designer themes, seasonal colors and amazing features like Sliding Cursor Control.
Featured in Gizmodo, Design Milk, BGR, FastCo and Hypebeast, Brightkey brings both beauty and function to the iOS keyboard with gorgeous themes including:
- Vibrant Colors, Metals and Woods INCLUDED
- Original themes available including Secret Garden, Optima, Candy Obsession, Geometrie, Getaway and Marble
- Seasonal color themes available to match design & fashion trends
With Autocorrect, accents and layout preferences, Brightkey works like you expect while adding incredible features you’ll love like:
- Sliding Cursor Control - Move the cursor position using the space bar, without lifting your hand
- Backspace to “Un” Autocorrect - Pressing Backspace restores the word YOU TYPED, instead of the Autocorrect version
- Quick-Fire™ messages - swipe up on the spacebar to reveal custom messages, easily edit and use across every app
Brightkey is a great keyboard replacement and fun to use everyday or whenever you need it. Follow the tutorial to install and then access anytime by pressing the Globe key.
What's New
Version History
1.8
Introducing the new Brightkey Colors - Spring and Summer 2016 Collection - Try Free for a limited time!
1.7
- NEW: PANTONE Fall & Winter 2015 Colors - NEW: Marble Theme Collection - Last chance for PANTONE Spring & Summer Colors! - Summer is over, so back to the regular Icon - Bug fixes
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1.6
Celebrate summer with the latest updates to Brightkey!
- 2 brand new theme collections: Getaway and Geometrie
- Autocorrect enhancements
- Bug fixes
- Fun Summer Icon
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1.5
NEW - Candy Obsession and Optima theme collections are here!
1.4.1
This update includes various bug fixes.
1.4
NEW - PANTONE® Spring 2015 Themes have arrived! NEW - Purchased Theme View NEW - Stay up to date with Push Notifications UPDATED - Tutorial and Installation Help FIXES - Known bugs and crashes
1.3.1
We have fixed the most annoying bug of all, you can now type as fast as you want without skipping any letters. Thanks for your patience, the keyboard is now INCREDIBLY FAST, try it out!!!
1.3
Brightkey 1.3 is full of new and improved features including:
- AZERTY and QWERTZ layouts (change in Brightkey App > Keyboard Settings > Languages)
- Non English characters, accents and punctuation such as ñ ü ` ¿ ¡ are now available, to use simply press and hold keys like n u ' ? ! and select.
- Introducing the Secret Garden Theme Collection, featuring five beautiful floral patterns available as optional in-app purchase.
- Apple Shortcuts (like "omw" expanding to "on my way") are now fully supported. Add or edit your Apple shortcuts in Settings > General > Keyboard > Shortcuts.
- It's time to say goodbye to the Limited Edition Vibrant Christmas themes. We hope they made your holiday Merry and Bright!
- Spring is around the corner, which means it's the Last Chance to buy the PANTONE® Fall 2014 Collection.
Thanks for your continued support of Brightkey! Once you have tried everything new and improved, please tell your friends and take a moment to leave us a review.
1.2.3
Brightkey 1.2.3 brings two new theme collections:
- PANTONE ® Color of the Year - Celebrating 16 years of PANTONE ® Color of the Year, including Marsala, the newly announced Color of the Year for 2015. With sixteen gorgeous colors, complete with the signature PANTONE ® chip (including the color name, number, and year) this beautiful collection is available via in-app purchase in single colors or as a collection (introductory price is 80% less than buying individually).
- Brightkey Vibrant Christmas (Limited Edition) - It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Brightkey is pleased to bring a bit of holiday cheer to the Vibrant Collection. Available for use at no-charge during the Holiday Season (but for a limited time only). With this, Brightkey now includes 18 free themes - with no coins to earn, no reviews to leave and no tricks!
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1.2.2
Version 1.2.2 is a small bug fix release that:
- Restores the missing auto-capitalization toggle preference. - Fixes a potential crash when updating Quick-Fire™ messages.
This 1.2.2 release also includes everything new to Brightkey Keyboard version 1.2 including:
- Designer PANTONE® color themes available as optional in-app purchases, including the 2014 color of the year - Radiant Orchid - PANTONE 18-3224 - New Theme Selector - Typing Speed and Reliability improvements - Auto-Correct / Predictive text enhancements - iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Aspect Ratio Update - Bug Fixes
Thanks for your support! If you like Brightkey Keyboard, we love App Store reviews (and read them all), but we're always available at support@brightkeysoftware.com and @Brightkeyapp on Twitter
1.2.1
Brightkey Keyboard 1.2 includes:
- Designer PANTONE® color themes available as optional in-app purchases, including the 2014 color of the year - Radiant Orchid - PANTONE 18-3224 - New Theme Selector - Typing Speed and Reliability improvements - Auto-Correct / Predictive text enhancements - iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Aspect Ratio Update - Bug Fixes
Thanks for your support! If you like Brightkey Keyboard, we love App Store reviews (and read them all), but we're always available at support@brightkeysoftware.com and @Brightkeyapp on Twitter
1.1
Version 1.1 of Brightkey Keyboard is here! So is the biggest user request: customization of Quick-Fire™ messages. You can add as many of your own Quick-Fire™ messages - all conveniently "hidden" under your keyboard. Try adding your contact details, address, directions or whatever you type often! It will save you tons of time! Customize your Quick-Fire™ messages under the Brightkey keyboard app under Keyboard Settings and pull up the Spacebar to use Quick-Fire™ messages in the keyboard itself.
In addition to our three beautiful metals and five vibrant colors, we've also added five beautiful Zen Wood themes and those are included for FREE. We think you'll love them, especially the calming design and white predictive text color on the chocolate wood.
Finally, we've made a bunch of auto-correct enhancements including a great way to fix words that auto-correct didn't get right - just push the backspace key to "un-autocorrect" or change the word right back to what you typed - someone really should have thought of this before!
Thanks for your great feedback and support! Brightkey would never trick you into leaving a review, but we truly do love to know what you think and feel it helps new users separate good from less so. We read all the reviews or you can get in touch for personal help at support@brightkeysoftware.com or @Brightkeyapp on Twitter.
1.0.1
The 1.0.1 release of Brightkey Keyboard fixes bugs, provides an updated tutorial and introduces error handling when "Full Access" is not enabled. This release should improve responsiveness (including reports of "freezing" / "lag" on some devices).
We’re already working on the next two big releases with new and expanded features, including user customization of the Quick Fire Templates (the biggest request to date). More fun and colorful stuff is coming you’re way. We'll be shipping new releases soon but need to properly test before release, especially now that we have real iPhone 6 and 6 Plus’s! (We really enjoyed meeting many of you in line!)
To incorporate your suggestions or report new bugs (including issues with auto-correct logic), kindly email support@brightkeysoftware.com or @brightkeyapp on Twitter - we have people ready to answer. (Brightkey Keyboard was a free app, right?)
1.0
Version 1.8
Introducing the new Brightkey Colors - Spring and Summer 2016 Collection - Try Free for a limited time!
Ratings and Reviews
3.4 out of 5
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
FrickFrackPattyWhack
Really Nice Keyboard Overall
I like the keyboard and appreciate the functions they've added but I sometimes makes mistakes like typing "ad" instead of "and" and there is no auto correct. I've also found that apostrophes don't always fix little errors like when I type "dont", I'd really like if they fixed this. Another two things that I would love for the keyboard are more colors (darker ones or just a "make a color" type of thing), and a setting where you can choose whether you want the "predictive text" bar on the top of the keyboard to show, this would help some people see what they're typing. Definitely a great keyboard anyway though and I recommend it for the style and features.
FrickFrackPattyWhack
Really Nice Keyboard Overall
I like the keyboard and appreciate the functions they've added but I sometimes makes mistakes like typing "ad" instead of "and" and there is no auto correct. I've also found that apostrophes don't always fix little errors like when I type "dont", I'd really like if they fixed this. Another two things that I would love for the keyboard are more colors (darker ones or just a "make a color" type of thing), and a setting where you can choose whether you want the "predictive text" bar on the top of the keyboard to show, this would help some people see what they're typing. Definitely a great keyboard anyway though and I recommend it for the style and features.
WaitWaitDontTellMeItsAnna!
Well for idiots
Basically you can't have autocorrect on this because on apps designed for the feature of it not the autocorrect, then you should go back to basic with autocorrect and not worry about what you're typing with looks like
WaitWaitDontTellMeItsAnna!
Well for idiots
Basically you can't have autocorrect on this because on apps designed for the feature of it not the autocorrect, then you should go back to basic with autocorrect and not worry about what you're typing with looks like
Mrlemmers
Another abandoned app
Was one of the cooler keyboard applications on iOS back when it came out. The auto correction wasn't ridiculously demanding and the cursor movement while not using 3D touch was accurate. Once Gboard and SwiftKey started getting better though almost all third-party keyboards were abandoned aside from a few which seem to be updated by a ghost development crew.
Mrlemmers
Another abandoned app
Was one of the cooler keyboard applications on iOS back when it came out. The auto correction wasn't ridiculously demanding and the cursor movement while not using 3D touch was accurate. Once Gboard and SwiftKey started getting better though almost all third-party keyboards were abandoned aside from a few which seem to be updated by a ghost development crew.
