# HusKyBoard — Customizable Keyboard App

> Customizable Keyboard App (iPhone/iPad app by NAM KYUNG YEO.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/huskyboard/id6804107949 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [NAM KYUNG YEO](https://appshunter.io/developer/6804107951)
- Category: Utilities
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.6 · 8 MB
- Languages: American English, Korean
- Released: 2026-08-31
- Data updated: 2026-09-12
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/huskyboard/id6804107949/reviews.md

## What is HusKyBoard?

Bring the layouts your fingers know to iPad and iPhone.
HusKyBoard supports a wide range of input methods, from two-set and three-set Korean layouts to chorded input and English stenography.
Adjust key placement, key sizes, themes, and input behavior to suit the way you type.
You can also use your selected layouts with an external keyboard in the app’s notes editor and keyboard test screen.

Supported Layouts
· Standard Dubeolsik, Dubeolsik Dugeobi, and Dubeolsik chorded input
· Sebeolsik 3-90 and Sebeolsik Final (3-91)
· Sebeolsik Chorded e (Semoe) 2018
· Sinsebeolsik P2
· English layouts including QWERTY, Dvorak, Colemak, and Stenotype

Split Keyboard Support
· Use a split keyboard on iPad.
· Place two fingers on the space bar and spread them apart to split the keyboard.

Three Keyboard Design Options
· Familiar Layout: Designed for users accustomed to the standard iPad keyboard.
· Full-Size Keys: Brings the dimensions of a physical keyboard to iPad.
· All Keys Visible: Uses a standard ANSI layout to keep all keys visible, regardless of screen size.
· Three additional layouts for iPhone and the iPad floating keyboard: an iPhone-style layout, a uniform 11-column grid, and a grid with the Backspace key on the bottom row.
· Keyboard height settings are saved separately for landscape and portrait orientations.

VIA-Style Key Customization
· Customize your keys with a VIA-style layout editor.
· Save up to 20 custom layouts for different uses.
· Assign keys to the Base, Shift, Fn, Option, and custom layers.
· Customize key assignments on every layer.
· For Korean layouts, configure combination rules, composition timeout, extended symbol layers, and vowel/final consonant Shift behavior separately for each layout.
· Add custom abbreviations to Semoe layouts.

Keyboard Themes
· Personalize your keyboard with three built-in themes and five custom theme slots.
· Adjust the keyboard background, key backgrounds, borders, shadows, and key label colors and font weights independently.
· Assign different background colors to initial consonant, vowel, and final consonant keys to help you learn three-set Korean layouts.
· Choose a light or dark appearance for each theme, or have it follow your system settings.

External Keyboard Support
· Use your custom layouts with an external keyboard in the app’s notes editor and keyboard test screen.
· Three-set Korean input is also supported. Use Caps Lock to switch between Korean and English, Control (Ctrl) to toggle between chorded and sequential input, Option (Alt) to access the Option layer, and Option (Alt) + Backspace to delete by word.

Notes with Markdown Support
· Save notes as .md files in a folder of your choice, including folders in iCloud Drive.
· Markdown syntax is automatically highlighted as you edit.
· Customize the styling of individual Markdown elements.

Fine-Tune Your Typing Experience
· Set different layouts for landscape and portrait orientations.
· Switch between chorded and sequential input as you type on supported layouts.
· Adjust the composition timeout to match your typing speed.
· Choose how text is deleted: by character, in mixed mode, or by individual Korean letter (jamo).
· Change settings and try them immediately on the keyboard test screen.
· Fine-tune key repeat speed, layer hold duration, key label size, number row visibility, and bottom row configuration.
· Export and import custom layout files to back up and share your layouts.
· Use two English stenography layouts and import Plover-format JSON dictionaries. Once a dictionary is added, steno strokes can be translated into words.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.2 — 2026-09-07

Version 1.2 introduces new English steno layouts, improves keyboard layouts, and fixes several bugs.

New Features
· Added “Steno” English steno layouts, with two options: a layout modeled after a stenotype keyboard and a layout for standard ANSI keyboards.

Improvements and Bug Fixes
· Optimized keyboard layouts for iPad mini and iPhone.
· Updated the Dubeolsik Dugeobi chorded layout to prioritize vowel input over final consonant input when an initial consonant and a vowel are pressed together.
· Fixed an issue where scaling the keyboard to fit the screen canceled out key width settings in layouts with spacer keys.
· Fixed an issue where the space bar disappeared when the bottom row of a split keyboard was full.

### 1.1 — 2026-09-02

v1.1 brings new layouts, fixes for several Semoe-related bugs, and overall performance improvements across both the app and the keyboard.

- New keyboard layouts
    - Dubeolsik Dugyeob-e
    - Dubeolsik Dugyeob-e Chorded Input
- New features and improvements
    - (Mobile only) You can now choose a separate design for each layout.
    - (Mobile only) Added a "Fill edge to edge" option: removes the leftover space on either side of the keys, and can be set for each layout.
    - You can now choose whether the opt layer uses your selected English
      layout or the mobile symbol layout.
    - Improved how the option, fn, and user layers are displayed on mobile
      layouts.
    - Various other improvements to make customizing easier.

- Performance
    - Optimized loading, so the keyboard appears on screen faster.
    - Improved overall keyboard performance.
    - Improved overall app performance.
- Bug fixes
    - Fixed an issue where using the Semoi composition engine on a custom layout also applied Semoi chording to English layouts, making some characters impossible to type.
    - Fixed extra space appearing on the left and right when the opt layer toggle was set to the built-in keyboard behavior on mobile.
    - Fixed a number of issues affecting custom layouts on mobile.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-31

No release notes.

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