Tools
The master tool list, covering how to enable, disable, recolour, and open each of the 63 tools' own settings, plus what each tool's in-panel manager does.
The Tools screen is the enable switch and settings entry point for every one of WM Keyboard’s 63 tools, letting you turn a tool on or off, tint its icon, and tap through to its own options. This page is the field reference for that one screen; for how the toolbar and toolbox actually work (pinning, dragging, groups, direct boot), see The toolbar instead.
The tool list
Section titled “The tool list”Reach it from Home → Tools, or by searching “Tools” in settings search. A deep link also works: wmkeyboard://settings/tools.
A Colorful tool icons toggle sits above the list, on by default. It tints each tool’s icon with its own accent colour, here and in the toolbox alike; turn it off and every icon falls back to the theme’s plain foreground colour.
Turning it on reveals Gradient tool colors underneath, off by default. On, each icon is painted with a two-colour gradient running from its own colour at the top left to a second colour at the bottom right, instead of one flat colour. The second colour is worked out from the first, so you get a gradient without picking anything; to choose both ends by hand, open the tool and set them there. The row is nested under the switch above rather than greyed out, because with the colours off there’d be nothing for a gradient to be made of.
Once you’ve recoloured at least one tool (either end of a gradient counts), a Reset custom colors button appears above the list and clears every per-tool override in one tap.
Below that, every tool gets one row: icon, name, a one-line description, an optional tune icon, and a switch. Tapping the switch enables or disables the tool; tapping anywhere else on the row opens that tool’s own settings screen.
Groups
Section titled “Groups”Tools are grouped by what they do, in this order:
| Group | Tools |
|---|---|
| Panels | Emoji, Clipboard, Snippets, Text editing, Numpad, Handwriting, Voice typing, Camera, Dictionary, Grammar check, App launcher |
| Scanners | Text scan (OCR), QR & barcode scanner, Document scanner |
| Online tools | Translate, GIFs, Stickers, Web search, Image search, Wikipedia, Currency converter, AI writing tools |
| Create and convert | Special symbols, Calculator, Unit converter, QR code generator, Password generator, Typing speed test |
| Keyboard modes | Keyboard modes, One-handed mode, Split keyboard, Floating keyboard, Resize |
| Cursor | The twelve one-tap cursor moves, plus Hide keyboard |
| Quick actions | Undo, Redo, Autocorrect, Fancy text, Incognito, Sound & haptics, Themes, Power saving, Settings shortcut |
| Utilities | Flashlight, Compass, Bubble level, Calendar, Weather, Moon phase |
| Other | Media controls, Plugins |
A tool a future group forgets to claim still shows. It falls into the trailing Other catch-all, which is why Media controls and Plugins land there rather than in a more specific group of their own, and nothing ever goes missing from the list.
A tune icon marks the tools with settings beyond the switch. Six are toggle-only here, because their real options live somewhere else: Settings (shortcut), Themes, Sound & haptics, One-handed mode, Media controls, and Resize, whose values are all sliders under WM KeyboardLayout & size anyway.
Lite edition only hides the Scanners group entirely: Text scan, QR scan, and Document scanner are all unavailable, so the group has nothing left to show and doesn’t render. Panels shrinks by two rows (Handwriting and Grammar check drop out) but keeps its name and the rest of its tools. See Lite edition below for the complete gating rule.
Opening a tool’s own screen
Section titled “Opening a tool’s own screen”Every tool’s detail screen, reached by tapping its row above, starts with the same three things, then adds whatever that specific tool needs:
- Enabled: the identical switch from the list screen, just repeated here.
- Icon colour: only shown while Colorful tool icons is on. Tap it to open a colour picker for just this tool’s icon; the swatch reads “Default” until you customise it, then “Custom.” With Gradient tool colors on as well, this one row becomes two, Icon colour, top left and Icon colour, bottom right, one per end of the gradient. Leave the bottom-right one alone and it keeps tracking whatever you pick for the top left.
- Keyword shortcut: a “Trigger words” field, shown only for the tools that ship a built-in keyword. Typing one of a tool’s words on its own (
wiki,calc,qr, and so on) offers a chip that opens the tool. This is the same feature documented in full on Smart chips; this screen just lets you edit or clear the words for one tool at a time.
Everything past that is specific to the tool, and most of it is already covered on that tool’s own guide page, linked from the table below rather than repeated here.
Managers built into a tool’s screen
Section titled “Managers built into a tool’s screen”A handful of tools carry something bigger than a row of toggles: a model downloader, a list editor, a location picker. All of them live inline, inside that tool’s own detail screen; none of them is a separate destination in Settings’ navigation, with the two exceptions called out at the bottom of this table.
| Tool | What’s there | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Voice typing | Recognition engine choice, plus the Whisper model manager | Only appears Full edition only. Default engine is System recognizer; switching to Offline Whisper reveals a Translate to English toggle (off by default) and the model list. Full details: Voice typing, Offline voice (Whisper). |
| AI writing tools | Provider chips (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Ollama, LM Studio, Other service, On-device) with per-provider API key or server fields, a local-model manager when On-device is selected, plus the action list, the changes view and the history | On-device is the only provider hidden on Lite edition only. See AI tools. |
| Handwriting | A recognition-model manager, one entry per typed language | Each model is an on-demand ML Kit download of about 20 MB. See Handwriting. |
| Snippets | Full add/edit/delete list, plus import and export | Stored as a JSON file the tool manages itself. See Snippets & text expansion. |
| Weather | A location picker, plus a Fahrenheit toggle (off by default) | See Instruments. |
| Typing speed test | A Records group: tests completed, recent average, best score per test length, and a “Clear records” row (shown only once there’s something to clear) | See Utility tools. |
| Plugins | A “Manage plugins” row | This one opens a separate screen. WM KeyboardToolsPlugins is just an entry point into Plugins overview, not an inline manager. |
| Stickers | A “Sticker packs” row alongside the tool’s own settings | Also a separate screen. See Stickers. |
Lite edition
Section titled “Lite edition”Lite edition only hides five tools completely. There’s no settings row anywhere, not even a switch you can’t turn on:
- Handwriting
- Text scan (OCR)
- QR & barcode scanner
- Document scanner
- Grammar check
Two more flags narrow what’s inside a tool without removing the tool itself: the On-device AI provider chip and the entire Offline Whisper engine option are both full-only, so AI writing tools and Voice typing still exist and still have a settings row on lite, just with fewer choices on it. Lite ships 58 of the 63 tools.
One tool is gated by the device rather than the build: Document scanner is a Google Play services activity, so it’s hidden on any phone without Play services even on Full edition only. Text scan and QR scan stay, since their models are in the APK.
Every tool’s guide page
Section titled “Every tool’s guide page”Every tool is documented somewhere outside this reference page, so use this table to jump straight to a tool’s full write-up instead of hunting for it:
| Guide page | Tools covered |
|---|---|
| The toolbar | Pinning, toolbox groups, direct boot, hardware leader key (mechanics for all 63) |
| Clipboard manager | Clipboard |
| Snippets & text expansion | Snippets |
| Text editing & cursor tools | Text editing, all twelve cursor tools, Undo, Redo, Numpad |
| Handwriting | Handwriting |
| Camera tool | Camera |
| Voice typing | Voice typing |
| Offline voice (Whisper) | Whisper (part of Voice typing) |
| Scanner | Text scan (OCR), QR & barcode scanner, Document scanner |
| Translate | Translate |
| Search & Wikipedia | Web search, Image search, Wikipedia, Dictionary |
| AI tools | AI writing tools |
| Utility tools | Calculator, Unit converter, Currency converter, Special symbols, QR code generator, Password generator, Typing speed test |
| Instruments | Flashlight, Compass, Bubble level, Moon phase, Weather |
| Media controls | Media controls |
| Calendar | Calendar |
| Emoji picker | Emoji |
| GIFs | GIFs |
| Stickers | Stickers |
| Plugins overview | Plugins |
| Size & position | One-handed mode, Split keyboard, Floating keyboard |
| Resize the keyboard | Resize |
| App launcher | App launcher |
| Power saving | Power saving |
| Modes & the symbol row | Keyboard modes |
| Sound & haptics | Sound & haptics |
| Autocorrect | Autocorrect |
| Grammar | Grammar check |
| Themes overview | Themes |
| Incognito & secure fields | Incognito |
Settings (the shortcut tool) has no guide page of its own. It just opens this settings app, and there’s nothing more to say about it.
Details & edge cases
Section titled “Details & edge cases”- Setup decides what starts enabled, not the shipped default. The default really is all 63 tools on, but you only ever see it after a settings reset. The setup wizard overwrites it the moment you answer its “how much keyboard do you want” question: 8 tools for “keep it simple”, 21 for the middle answer, 35 for “show me everything”, or all 63 if you tap Everything on its Tools page. Answering “extra strict” on privacy adds Incognito, and a set that loses tools this build or device can’t run (grammar, handwriting, the scanners) gets Wikipedia and Power saving in their place, so the exact count moves a little. It only writes over an untouched default, so a reinstall with your settings intact keeps your selection.
- Disabling a tool is one switch, not three. It disappears from the toolbar, the toolbox, and its hardware leader-key letter simultaneously, and there’s no way to keep one of those and drop the others.
- The tune icon is a hint, not a guarantee of depth. A handful of tools with a tune icon still only add one or two settings past the shared Enabled/Icon colour/Keyword shortcut rows; the icon just means “there’s at least one more setting,” not “there’s a lot here.”
- A tool’s icon colour override survives disabling and re-enabling it. Turning a tool off and back on doesn’t reset any customisation made on its detail screen.
- Build-gated tools leave no trace. A tool hidden by the lite edition doesn’t appear as a disabled row anywhere: not in this list, not in settings search, not in the toolbox. The five lite-hidden tools are simply absent, and so is Document scanner on a device with no Play services.
- Rows here get the same restore button as everywhere else. Any switch or colour you’ve moved off its shipped value grows a small reset icon; see putting one setting back for how it behaves.
Related pages
Section titled “Related pages”- The toolbar: pinning, dragging, toolbox groups, direct boot, and the hardware leader key.
- Appearance: toolbar display options (height, labels, grid size) and where pinning itself is configured.
- Smart chips: keyword chips, including the “Tool keywords” toggle that turns this screen’s per-tool trigger words on or off globally.
- Full vs Lite: the complete edition comparison, tools included.