What's New

The latest updates to Keyda across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android.

October 2026 update

iPhone, iPad and Android · October 2026

Keyda AI, free every day

• No more trial: every signed-in account gets 100 Keyda AI calls a day across the keyboard and the apps, no card required.
• 5 free images to try Image Studio and stickers. Lite and Pro add 25 and 50 a month.
• Lite and Pro stay as the way to get more calls, monthly images and on-device models.

Type in Hindi

• Hindi keyboard: turn on the Devanagari layout (हिन्दी / मराठी) in the keyboard settings, then switch between it and English with the language key beside the space bar.
• Now on Android too: Hindi transliteration (type "namaste", get "नमस्ते") and Hinglish-aware autocorrect that leaves words like "bhai" and "nahi" alone.
• Keyda in Hindi: the app's own screens are available in Hindi.

A keyboard that fits your hand

• One-handed mode narrows the keys to the left or right on phones.
• Keyboard height and Large keys make the rows taller and the letters bigger.
• High-contrast keys: black and white keys with clear edges, over any theme.
• Slide on space to move the cursor. A tap still types a space.

Every one of these is off until you turn it on, so your keyboard looks and behaves as before until you change it.

Four new keyboard themes

• Mocha: warm coffee brown.
• Pistachio: a soft yellow-green.
• Gold: warm metallic gold.
• Cherry: deep cherry red, with wine-coloured keys in dark mode.

That makes fourteen. Each one follows your phone's light or dark mode, and you can switch by voice — "use the gold theme".

Type faster

• Text shortcuts: save a short code for a phrase you type often — an address, an email sign-off — and insert the phrase from the suggestion bar.
• GIFs: search GIFs from the keyboard's library. On Android the GIF goes straight into apps that accept one; on iPhone it is copied for you to paste. Powered by GIPHY.
• Pinned clips: pin the copied items you reuse so they stay in your clipboard history.
• Emoji skin tones.
• On iPhone: Shorter and Longer rewrites, a Compose email chip and Insert bio, which Android already had. Hindi you dictate is written the Hinglish way — "namaste kaise ho" — as it already was on Android.

Notes, Documents & Sketch

• Drawings sync. What you draw in a notebook or a sketch now follows you to your other devices, the same as your text.
• Formatting — bold, lists, checklists, links — survives editing the same document on iPhone and Android.
• Export a note, document or sketch as a PDF or an image, and share a sketch as a picture.
• Share into Keyda: send text, a link, a photo or a file from any app's share sheet to save it as a note or ask the assistant about it.

AI assistant

• Regenerate an answer you don't like, or edit your message and ask again.
• Talk to Keyda from anywhere on Android: a Quick Settings tile, an app shortcut and a home-screen widget — the Android counterpart of Control Center and the Action Button on iPhone.
• Home-screen widgets for a new note, the assistant and Talk to Keyda.

Account & security

• Signed-in devices: see every phone, tablet and computer signed in to your account, and sign out any of them — or all the others — from the device in your hand.
• Sign in with Apple on Android, so an account you created on iPhone works on both.
• Notifications on Android now open the screen they are about.
• A short "Try it here" tutorial after setup, replayable from Settings.

Version 1.5.7

August 2026

Free with your own key

• Bring your own API key and use Keyda free — no plan needed.
• New 3-day trial with 100 AI calls, no card required.

AI assistant

• Redesigned chat view.
• A shared chat link now opens that chat instead of a new one.
• Clearer message when you share a chat with someone.
• Image attachments work again, and files are compressed before upload.
• Clear Chat History now clears every chat and session.
• Hold a message to copy it.

Keyboard

• Autocorrect now reads context — "hoe are you" becomes "how are you", where a spell-check alone can't help.
• ＋ Keep a flagged word to add it to your dictionary so it's never corrected again.
• Swipe backspace to clear, and swipe back to undo it.
• Clipboard is now the first tab in the library.
• No more flicker when switching to Keyda.
• Smoother scrolling and a more reliable close button in the library.
• Real icons for Notes and Documents in place of emoji.

Notes & Documents

• Text and drawings now sit as blocks on the same page.
• AI replies arrive as real formatting — bold, lists and tables.
• Pasted text keeps its formatting.

Stickers

• Generate stickers with AI.
• Add packs straight to WhatsApp.

Also

• An error from one integration no longer shows up on another.
• A cancelled on-device model download no longer looks installed.
• Keyda for Mac checks for updates and downloads them for you.
• On Android, AI usage, permissions, voice settings and the Library now match iPhone.

Version 1.5.2

July 2026

Connect Linear and Jira

Link your Linear or Jira workspace and ask about your work in plain language — "what's assigned to me?", "what changed this week?" — right inside the Keyda assistant. Pick a tool in the assistant's AI source menu and replies use your live issues automatically, so you don't have to describe your board before asking about it.

• Connect, manage and disconnect workspaces in Settings → Integrations. Disconnecting deletes the access Keyda stored, and you can reconnect any time.
• Connected GitHub accounts can now be disconnected from the same screen.
• The assistant always shows which tool a chat can see, so you're never guessing where an answer came from.
• Keyda only reads your work to answer questions — it never posts or changes anything in Linear, Jira or GitHub.

Work-tool answers are generated by Keyda's cloud AI. If you're using your own API key or the on-device model, the assistant will tell you why it can't read your issues in that mode.

Draw anywhere in Notes and Sketch

• Pen, eraser and colour tools in both Notes and Sketch.
• Separate Type and Draw modes, so writing and sketching no longer interfere with each other.
• Ink now stays inside the page instead of overlapping your text, and two-finger scrolling keeps working while you're in Draw mode.
• More reliable undo and redo while drawing.
• A clear Save action, plus a prompt before you leave with unsaved work — no more losing a note to an accidental swipe.

Keyboard fixes

• The emoji, tone and AI panels now size correctly when the number row is turned on — previously they were stretched a row too tall and pushed the app's content up.
• The Settings tab inside the keyboard's library panel scrolls properly, and its buttons no longer fire while you're scrolling past them.
• Option descriptions, including Hindi transliteration, are shorter and no longer cut off mid-sentence.

Faster and steadier

• Settings opens noticeably faster — it was doing avoidable work every time the screen redrew.
• More reliable sticker pack sharing to WhatsApp.
• Stability, privacy and security improvements throughout the app and on our servers.

Version 1.5.1

July 2026

Keyda for Mac

Your whole Keyda workspace now runs on the Mac — Notes, Documents, Sketches and the AI assistant, signed in to the same account and synced with your phone. There's also an optional, off-by-default System-wide Writing Check that can underline spelling mistakes in any app once you turn it on and grant Accessibility permission — it runs on your device and always skips password fields. (Keyda for Mac is distributed as a notarized download.)

Draw in your notes with Apple Pencil

Notes now has a Type and a Draw mode. Type with the keyboard as usual, then tap the pencil button to sketch, annotate and handwrite with your finger or Apple Pencil — ink and text live on the same page. Notes also picked up real undo/redo and cleaner paper styles.

Type in Hindi & Hinglish

• Hindi transliteration (Beta): type Hindi phonetically in English letters — "namaste" becomes "नमस्ते" as you go — with smart English/Hindi mixing so your English words are left alone.
• Hinglish-aware autocorrect: everyday romanized-Hindi words like "bhai", "kya" and "nahi" are no longer "corrected" into the wrong English word.

Voice Mode

Have a hands-free, back-and-forth conversation with the assistant: speak, hear the reply spoken back, and it re-opens the mic for your next turn. Pick the assistant's voice and speed in Settings → Voice, and dictation now preserves any draft you'd already started.

Smarter, more personal suggestions

• Learns your daily-use words: words you type often — including names, slang and other-language words no dictionary has — start showing up as suggestions after you've used them a few times.
• Always three suggestions: the suggestion bar now consistently offers a full set of choices instead of falling short.
• Instant word fix: select a misspelled word and Keyda offers correct spellings to tap right away — no AI round-trip needed — before falling back to the usual Fix / Rephrase actions.

iPad

Full landscape support — use Keyda comfortably in both portrait and landscape, with a layout tuned for the bigger screen.

More improvements

• Faster, more reliable Home search across your notes, documents and past AI chats, with a clear message when a search can't complete.
• Friendlier, clearer error messages throughout the app.
• A range of stability and performance fixes for the keyboard, Notes and the assistant.

Recent highlights

From earlier updates you may have missed:

• Share & collaborate: share notes and documents with a link, and invite up to 100 people into a shared AI chat session.
• Ask about links & files: paste a web link or attach a file and the assistant reads it to answer your question.
• On-device models: run local language and image models privately on eligible plans.
• Real-time writing assistant, one-tap actions, stickers & themes, and a browser extension for grammar fixes on the web.

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