Use Inka

Guide · 4 minutes

Customize your writing space.

Four choices: the page behind your words, the font, the room, and the sound. Same paragraph in each, so you can see what changes.

Open Inka and follow along

1. The page behind the words

Bottom left, press Aa. The right column is Page: None, Clear, White, Ruled.

Inka with no page: light text floats directly over a field of wildflowers, the current sentence large along the bottom.
None. Words straight on the room.
The same paragraph on a faint translucent sheet; the flowers show through it.
Clear. A see-through sheet. The room shows through, the text gets a little more separation.
The same paragraph in dark ink on an opaque cream page floating over the flowers.
White. An opaque page and dark ink. The closest to paper. Good for long sessions.
The same paragraph on faint ruled lines with the room visible behind.
Ruled. Lines, and the room behind them. Notebook feel without hiding the view.

Whichever page you pick, you write straight on it by default. If you would rather type on the big line at the bottom and watch each sentence settle, switch How you write to On the line, in Text.

2. Font

Same Aa button, left column: Serif, Sans, Mono, Atkinson. Serif is the default.

The Text section of the Hub: four font tiles, sliders for size, line spacing and text opacity, a text colour swatch, and the Legible mode switch marked Always free.
The full set lives in the Hub under Text: size, line spacing, text opacity, colour, and Legible mode.
  • Legible mode switches to Atkinson Hyperlegible with wider letter spacing and taller lines. It is free and stays free. If you have dyslexia or just find dense text tiring, try it before anything else.
  • Text colour follows the room unless you pick one. Use room's puts it back.
  • Auto-settle after a pause is here too: how long Inka waits before a sentence settles. 1 second by default. Enter always settles at once.

3. The room

Hub, Room. Animated rooms at the top, stills below. Press View all to see every one.

The Room section of the Hub, grouped by vibe: Rain, Warm and cozy, City at night, Sky and sea; 10 of 30 rooms are free, with Animated and Pro badges
The room grid. Ten rooms are free; the rest show a small PRO mark.
  • The room brightens as you keep typing and dims a little when you stall. That is on purpose.
  • Each room sets its own text colour and caret colour. Pick a room first, then adjust text.
  • Pro: Your own background. Paste an image or YouTube link and it becomes the room. The last five stay in the panel.

4. Sound

Bottom left, the button next to Aa. Tap a sound to start it. Tap another and they play together. Each one gets its own volume slider.

The sound panel: nineteen ambient sounds from Soft Rain to Deep House, the free ones open and the Pro ones marked; below it the key sound picker and the settle chime switch.
Nineteen sounds, mixable. Key sound and the settle chime are underneath.
  • A mix that works for most people: Soft Rain plus Fireside, rain a little louder.
  • Key sound: Cream is free. Off is there too.
  • Ambient volume follows your typing the same way the room does.
  • Spotify is separate, under Hub, Music. Paste a playlist link. Ambient sounds turn down while a track plays.

Where the controls are

The small popover from the Aa button: Font (Serif, Sans, Mono, Atkinson) on the left and Page (None, Clear, White, Ruled) on the right.
The quick version, from Aa.
  • Aa, bottom left: font and page.
  • The sound button next to it: ambient mix, key sound, chime.
  • Hub, bottom right (the four squares next to the gear), opens Room, Music, Text, Export, Widgets and Notes. The gear next to it is Settings. On a laptop it is a sidebar in three groups: Text, Room, Music, Study and Notes; then Goals, Stats, Pieces, Export and Widgets; then Account, Help, Feedback, What's new and Inka Pro. Look and Focus Filter sit in a small card at the foot. On a phone the same names are a list you tap into.
  • Everything hides after a few seconds without input. Move the mouse and it comes back.

All of this is saved on your device and comes back next time. Rooms, sounds and text settings stay on each device; only your pieces sync when you sign in.