What's New in Kibik?

If you enjoy Kibik, I’d be very grateful if you could leave a rating or review . Thank you!

Next, I’ll work on auto-correct, favorites, and custom keyboard backgrounds. Tap Suggest a feature in the app to see what else is coming and send me your ideas.

2026.15

Smoother onboarding and keyboard polish

  • Improved Redesigned the onboarding experience.
  • Improved Refined layouts across many pages, especially on iPad and in narrow windows.
  • Fixed Removed unwanted faded overlays from keyboard lists, toolbars, and alerts on iOS beta versions.
  • Fixed Fixed accent menus being clipped or misplaced, especially on letters in the top row and on iPad in landscape.
  • Fixed Fixed wallpaper unlock progress occasionally showing “Watch 999 ads”.
  • Fixed Fixed the tab bar remaining visible on some pages on iPad running iOS 26.

2026.13

FAQs and translated release notes

  • New Added FAQs to the app.
  • Improved Translated the release notes into all supported languages and made them nicer to read.
  • Improved Made the app icon text slightly bigger and bolder.
  • Fixed Fixed the contact email button for users who have not set a default email app in Settings.
  • Changed Kibik now requires iOS 17 or later.

2026.3

New languages and translated categories

  • New Added Dutch, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), Portuguese (Brazil), and Portuguese (Portugal).
  • Improved Translated keyboard categories like fonts, emojis, kaomojis, dividers, and more.
  • Improved Updated the tab bar with filled icons to better match the Liquid Glass design.

2025.15

Keyboard navigation and content browsing

  • New Added a space-bar cursor gesture: long-press the space bar and move your finger left or right to move the cursor.
  • New Redesigned the pages for selecting fonts, symbols, kaomojis, organizers, and more.
  • New Added a sticky bottom toolbar to all screens.
  • New Added many new fonts, symbols, and kaomojis.
  • Improved Organized fonts into categories and removed the old menu.
  • Improved Added several new fonts, reorganized them, and improved existing ones.
  • Improved Made more fonts and symbols free forever.
  • Improved Increased the number of free auto-paste texts.
  • Improved Implemented new dismissible alerts instead of the old locked views.
  • Improved Added a warning when you tap a keyboard button that should open the app and Full Access is not enabled.
  • Improved Improved how kaomojis and text dividers are displayed and sent.
  • Improved Improved kaomoji deletion slightly, though it is still not perfect.
  • Improved Made the font selection page automatically scroll to the currently selected font.
  • Improved Made the maximized keyboard slightly less tall than before.
  • Fixed Fixed auto-paste alerts when Full Access is disabled or when you have too many saved texts.

Thank you everyone. Keep sending me feature requests, I love them and read every email.

2025.14

iOS 26 keyboard redesign, phase 1

  • Improved Updated the keyboard colors and sizes for iOS 26. The toolbar is now transparent and no longer has a background color.
  • Improved Made the font selection popup menu more compact and clearer.
  • Fixed Removed the extra globe icon on iPhone 17 and 17 Pro, since it already appears in the bottom bar.
  • Fixed Fixed Light and Dark mode switching, including with custom color themes.
  • Fixed Fixed the keyboard display in the Gmail app.
  • Fixed Fixed accent selection on letters in the top row of the keyboard.
  • Known Issue Font selection popup size on iPad, emoji screen background color, color theme tones, iPad row/key spacing, and accent selection details still need polish.

This is phase 1 of the big keyboard redesign. Please send me any bugs you find or suggestions you have from the main app.

I am really excited to hear your feedback. I read and reply to every email you send me.

2025.10

Faster font switching

  • New Made font selection much more practical with a quick-access menu to switch back to the normal keyboard, revisit recent custom fonts, or browse the full list.

2025.3

Kibik arrives

  • New Added this release notes page to keep everyone up to date with what is new in the app.
  • Improved Significantly improved keyboard haptic feedback, making vibrations lighter and softer.
  • Improved Made the wallpaper section much more performant.
  • Improved Improved the warning that appears when Full Access is not enabled.
  • Fixed Fixed a display issue with the bottom tab bar on iOS 17 devices.
  • Changed Renamed the app to Kibik.