Clink
The iOS keyboard you actually own
Details
- External ID
- 1263406
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Clink
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 82
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9801689116955313
- Tags
- iOS, Productivity, Privacy
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
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!
Enrichment
- Theme
- custom keyboards and input controllers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- private ios keyboard for mobile users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Custom iOS keyboards have severe memory limits, restricted networking permissions, and finicky UIKit extension lifecycles that AI coding assistants struggle to debug.
What it would actually take: Requires native Swift/iOS development using the `UIInputViewController` extension framework, dealing with strict 30MB-48MB RAM sandboxing and user 'Full Access' permissions for network connectivity. The hard parts are memory management, low-latency keypress rendering, gesture typing algorithms, and platform constraints specific to Apple's keyboard extension sandbox.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 44 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #5 of 45 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 99 days after the earliest competitor.
- Kiiboard : Keyboard for Coding · ph · 2026-09-20 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Bref · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Split Keyboard for iPad · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Hands · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- KeyGhost · hn · 2026-06-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- iosy · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Mechanical Keyboard App－FunKey · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Mechanical Keyboard Sound · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.36
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.