What's New
The November 2026 update lets you ask Keyda about a photo or a file right from the keyboard, fills in your own details in forms with a tap, lets you sign in with a passkey, makes typing faster and smoother, and reorganises the keyboard settings. Update from the App Store, Google Play or the Chrome Web Store to get everything below.
November 2026 update
Ask about a photo or a file
- From the keyboard: in an empty field, tap ＋ in the suggestion bar, choose a photo or a file (PDF, Word, text, Markdown or CSV), and ask your question. The answer appears right where you are typing.
- In Chrome: attach a photo or a file beside the Keyda button on any website and ask about it there.
Fill in your details with a tap
- In a field that asks for your email, phone number, name, company, address or a link, the suggestion bar now offers your own details. Tap one to insert it.
- Your details come from your Keyda profile, User Information and the files you added there, such as a résumé. Choose which ones are offered under Offered in Forms, or turn the feature off with Fill My Details in the keyboard settings.
- Works in website forms too, with the Chrome extension.
Sign in with a passkey
- No code to wait for: sign in with Face ID, Touch ID, your fingerprint or your screen lock. Add a passkey in Settings → your profile → Passkeys, then choose Sign in with a passkey next time.
- On all your devices: your passkey is saved in iCloud Keychain, Google Password Manager or the password manager you use, so it works on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android (9 or later) and in the Chrome extension.
- You stay informed: your other devices get a notification whenever a passkey is added to or removed from your account.
A faster, smoother keyboard
- Quicker key presses: each key now responds faster, and the suggestions update right after it, so fast typing feels smoother.
- Symbols on keys: each key shows the number or symbol a long press types in its corner. Turn it off with Symbols on Keys if you prefer clean keys.
- Number pad: number fields now suggest numbers instead of words, and the phone pad has a + key.
- Emoji keyboard: the delete and ABC keys now match the letter keys in size and feel.
- Slightly stronger haptics on every key, and a cleaner look for the AI button and the Library tabs.
Keyboard settings, reorganised
- Settings → Keyboard is now grouped into clear sections: Keyda AI, Suggestions, Typing, Keys and Comfort.
- The keyboard's own Settings tab keeps the switches you reach for most while typing.
Report AI content on Android
- Tap the flag on an AI result, or use Settings → Help → Report AI content, to tell us about an answer, image or sticker that is wrong or offensive.
The free plan, by country
- India: Keyda AI stays free every day — currently 50 calls a day across the keyboard and the apps, no card required.
- Everywhere else: a free month at 50 calls a day, then 10 a day until you subscribe. The app shows the days left and tells you when the month is over.
- 2 free images to try Image Studio and stickers (was 5). Lite and Pro add 25 and 50 a month.
- Lite and Pro are unchanged.
October 2026 update
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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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