Small Key
TestFlight Release Notes
Create light presets by adjusting brightness and color temperature with a tap or a drag. Give your lights custom names, and sort by brightness, color, and more. Presets sync across all of your iCloud-enabled devices.
NOTE: This app is most useful on iOS and iPadOS, where the light coming from a physical iPhone or iPad can illuminate your face, subject, or room. This app also exists on macOS and visionOS to allow for preset management.
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February 18th, 2026
Version 1.1.0
Build 19
What's new
- Improved sort menu for macOS
- Added contextual menu on right-click to lights in the sidebar
- Improvements to debugging tools
February 9th, 2026
Version 1.1.0
Build 18
What's new
- Improved performance — Optimized the keylight control surface for smoother interactions
- Fixed “Edit Light” getting stuck in the title bar on macOS
- Fixed incorrect increment indicators below settings sliders — Brightness and color temperature sliders now show the correct step values
- The onboarding / welcome view now displays properly across device sizes
- Moved create and sort controls to the bottom of the sidebar on macOS
May 22nd, 2025
Version 1.0.0
Build 12
What's new
- Fixed issues related to some image assets
- Fixed issues around internal alpha builds
February 28th, 2025
Version 1.0.0
Build 10
What's new
- New lights will be shown with technical label instead of custom name “Example light”
- If you’ve installed a previous version of Small Key you will need to uninstall then reinstall the app
- On macOS and visionOS the screen won’t actually dim. Just the view in the app itself. This is expected.
- Creating a new light on macOS may set its initial value to -100
February 22nd, 2025
Version 1.0.0
Build 8
What's new
- Last selected light will still be selected on relaunch
- Light selection syncs across devices
- Added a light preset indicator to the Edit Light view
- Default light now has a custom name, “Example light”
- Further improvements to settings debug view
- If you’ve installed a previous version of Small Key you will need to uninstall then reinstall the app
- On macOS and visionOS the screen won’t actually dim. Just the view in the app itself. This is expected.
- Creating a new light on macOS may set its initial value to -100
February 11th, 2025
Version 1.0.0
Build 6
What's new
- If you’ve installed a previous version of Small Key you will need to uninstall then reinstall the app
- Sort settings now sync across devices
- Improve reliability of synced light presets
February 11th, 2025
Version 1.0.0
Build 5
What's new
- Updated icons across all platforms
- Improved tint-able icon on iOS & iPadOS
- New welcome screen and get-started guide
- On macOS and visionOS the screen won’t actually dim. Just the view in the app itself. This is expected.
- List doesn’t always show selection state
- Creating a new light on macOS may set its initial value to -100
- Sort settings won’t sync across devices, or app launches
February 4th, 2025
Version 1.0.0
Build 4
What's new
- Try creating multiple lights with a variety of settings
- Ensure lights sync across devices (requires iCloud)
- Ensure tapping on the light control screen adjusts both brightness and color temperature
- Ensure lights with custom names save and syncs across devices
- App icons are not final
- Support for dark mode and tinted icons on iOS
- Changed minimum OS requirements to include more devices
- Added safe area inset to prevent accidentally adjusting light around screen edges
- Fixed layout of individual light settings view
- Added light sorting menu
- Updated light selection indicator
- On macOS and visionOS the screen won’t actually dim. Just the view in the app itself. This is expected.
- List doesn’t always show selection state
- Creating a new light on macOS may set its initial value to -100
- Sort settings won’t sync across devices
January 29th, 2025
Version 1.0.0
Build 3
What's new
- App icon is temporary and not final
- Try creating multiple lights with a variety of settings
- Ensure lights sync across devices logged into iCloud
- Ensure tapping on the light control screen adjusts both brightness and color temperature
- Ensure editing the name of the light saves correctly, and syncs across devices
- List doesn’t always show selection state, this is a known issue
- On macOS and visionOS the screen won’t actually dim. Just the view in the app itself. This is expected.
January 27th, 2025
Version 1.0.0
Build 1
What's new
- App icon is temporary and not final
- Try creating multiple lights with a variety of settings
- Ensure lights sync across devices logged into iCloud
- Ensure tapping on the light control screen adjusts both brightness and color temperature
- Ensure editing the name of the light saves correctly, and syncs across devices
- List doesn’t always show selection state, this is a known issue
- On macOS and visionOS the screen won’t actually dim. Just the view in the app itself. This is expected.