QMK Toolbox
Flashes QMK and other firmware onto custom keyboards, detecting boards in bootloader mode and showing their debug console.
MIT · Free download · Downloads from github.com
- License
- MIT
- Open source
- Source
- GitHub
- qmk
- Verified
- 2026
About QMK Toolbox
QMK Toolbox is the companion app of the QMK keyboard firmware project. You pick a compiled firmware file, put the keyboard into bootloader mode, and the Toolbox recognises the board and writes the firmware, optionally doing so automatically as soon as a board appears.
It bundles the usual command-line flashers for DFU, Caterina, HalfKay, BootloadHID, Atmel SAM-BA and other bootloaders, along with a few ISP programmers, so you do not have to install them separately. It also shows text that a keyboard prints over its HID debug console, which helps when testing your own firmware.
The macOS build requires macOS 12 or later and is offered as an installer package or a zipped app.
Information
- Source code
- qmk/qmk_toolbox
- License
- MIT
- Website
- qmk.fm
- Download
- github.com
- Homebrew
- qmk-toolbox
- Category
- Utilities
- Evidence checked
- Tags
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Sources and image credits
- github.com/qmk/qmk_toolbox
- github.com/qmk/qmk_toolbox/blob/master/LICENSE.md
- github.com/qmk/qmk_toolbox#installation
- github.com/qmk/qmk_toolbox/releases
- icon.png: QMK. MIT; upstream project asset, trademarks retained.
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