Lockey: Lock Your Messages

Lockey 2.0 is completely new: lock texts and photos with a key you share with each contact, and open them right in the keyboard. Your keys never leave your phone.

Lockey is a keyboard that locks what you send. In any chat, mail or social app, tap Lock in the keyboard and the text you wrote turns into a locked message that only people with the same key can open with Lockey.

■ A key for each contact · Scan each other's QR code face to face to share a key only the two of you have. · If both phones show the same check number, you're set. · Far apart? Send an invite code through another messenger. · Keys are kept only in your phone's Keychain — never sent to our server and never included in backups.

■ Lock or veil · Tap Lock, choose a key, and the text in the field becomes a locked message. Undo brings it back. · Veil: hides text from anyone looking over your shoulder; anyone with Lockey can open it. · Links can be locked too.

■ Photos, locked · Photos are encrypted on your phone and only the encrypted file is uploaded. The key to open it is inside the locked message. · Files are kept for 7 days and then deleted automatically. Not even we can see your photos.

■ Unlock in the keyboard · Select or copy a locked message and tap Unlock in the keyboard. · What you unlock is shown only inside the keyboard — it's never typed into the field or saved. · Text veiled with the old Lockeyboard can still be opened.

■ Quick phrases · Save the phrases you use most and insert them from the keyboard in one tap.

■ A full Korean and English keyboard · Dubeolsik, Cheonjiin, Naratgul, Vega, Danmoum and Sebeolsik, plus English QWERTY · Light and dark mode, 7 skins or your own, emoji, sound, haptics and key height

■ Privacy · What you type is never stored or sent. · Locking and unlocking happen on your phone. No account, no login, no ads. · The only thing sent to our server is the encrypted file of a locked photo.

■ Turning it on Settings › General › Keyboard › Keyboards › Add New Keyboard › Lockey, then tap Lockey and turn on "Allow Full Access". Full Access lets the keyboard read the keys you create in the app. To unlock copied text, set Settings › Lockey › Paste from Other Apps › Allow.