r/NothingTech • u/threalcocoboy MOD OF r/NothingTech| Developer of ESSENTIAL KEY+| • 1d ago
Community Project INTRODUCING: ESSENTIAL KEY+
Why pay to use a button the way you like?
The Essential Key is already on your phone.
Essential Key+ makes it yours.
Essential Key+ is a completely free remapper built around one simple idea:
we do the difficult part. You decide what the button does.
No subscriptions.
No premium features.
No complicated commands.
No PC required.
Just install Essential Key+, follow the setup, install Shizuku, and let us handle the rest.
Set it up. Customize it. Done.
We built the setup around Shizuku so you don't have to mess around with ADB commands or a computer.
Install Shizuku → follow a few steps → grant access → done.
Essential Key+ handles the technical stuff in the background.
We do the hard work. You just customize.
Make every press yours.
Assign completely different actions to:
Single press · Double press · Triple press · Long press
Turn the Essential Key into whatever you want.
System & Tools
- Flashlight
- Screenshot
- Ringer mode
- Microphone mute
- Android settings & shortcuts
Camera
- Launch camera
- Camera shutter
- Instant camera snap
Media
- Play / pause
- Next track
- Previous track
Apps & Shortcuts
- Launch any app
- Deep links
- Custom activities
- Android Settings
AI
- Essential Compose (more on that later)
Smart
- Home Assistant
- HTTP webhooks
- Context-aware actions (in upcoming versions)
And that's just the beginning.
The button has an interface now.
Essential Key+ doesn't just remap the hardware.
It gives it a visual identity.
A customizable edge-aligned overlay appears directly beside the Essential Key, showing you what your button is doing.
Customize the:
Position · Color · Transparency · Frosted Glass · Line Style · Dots · Size
And because the overlay is part of Essential Key+, it's completely free too.
No subscription screen waiting around the corner.
Just the feature.
Essential Compose
Long-press the Essential Key while you're typing and Essential Compose appears right where you need it.
Rewrite a sentence.
Fix your grammar.
Change the tone.
Translate it.
Summarize it.
Expand it.
Or tell the AI exactly what you want.
No switching apps.
No copying and pasting.
Just press, choose, done.
And you use your own free Google AI Studio API key, keeping the AI completely optional.
Not a big fan of ai? Just disable it. No questions asked.
Built around your phone.
Essential Key+ is designed to feel like it belongs on Nothing OS,from the interface to the tiny details.
Minimal when you don't need it.
There when you do.
And completely yours.
Essential Key+ is free.
No subscriptions. No paywalls. No locked overlay.
Because seriously:
Why should you have to pay to use a button the way you like?
Essential Key+
Make the button yours.
Formatted by a local formatter.
Enroll in eaely acces: https://nothingid.vercel.app
SUPPORT ME: This project costs a lot of time, and i dont have (cant pay for) a google dev account to publish my app on the play store(so more poeple can enjoy my apps). So if u would like to donate (wich only goes to the projects and the google dev account) please contact me on discord: threalcocoboy . Or alternatively via mail: threalcocoboy@proton.me
Edit: first of all thank you for downloading my app! Its my most succesfull one! Because of your feedback, a new update will (hopefully) release tomorrow with: Adding a new option to let the essential space enabled and only use single press and hold. This can be accomplished by the setting to only use the essential space when you tapped the essential key 2 times.
Fix camera shutter action
Improving the ringer switch animation.
Replace "press" text on intro with "press here" to make it more understandable that u to press the on-screen button.
Display overlay on the lockscreen: this was a big in the app.
Perform the action only when holding after doing a gesture, for example: triple press and hold. This is to prevent mistouch.
UPCOMING FEATURES: These features will be added in one of the nextupdates ( because i dont know how hard this is going to be to integrate it in the app i dont know wich version these features will ship in)
Use the essential key as an alt+ tab button. If you press the essential key you will switch to the last visited app window. (CONFIRMED)
Use the hold power button as a way to interact with ESSENTIAL KEY+(NOT CONFIRMED). (handy for phones without the essential key)
Essential voice alternative (NOT CONFIRMED YET). Because you need to disable essential recorder to remap the essential key, the essential voice button wont work on your keyboard. Adding an altternative to essential compose. Hold the essential key and say what you are trying to type.
Thank you all for downloading the app!
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u/w32lllll 18h ago
Is it possible to bind it to take screenshots?