Altar II

Hi everyone, I'm Andrew, the creator of Altar II.Altar II is an ultra-low profile (4.75mm) mechanical keyboard designed to replace your Magic Keyboard. It's the keyboard I wish Apple made.It has fully mechanical switches with 1.8mm of travel, a magnetically detachable dial, haptic feedback, a red backlight, a speaker, and a native macOS companion app. The chassis is a single piece of CNC-machined aluminium.I'm a heavy Mac user and I feel Apple hasn't given its keyboards the attention they deserve in terms of hardware, software or features, so I set out to change that. It has taken almost two years. The hardest parts were fitting a reasonably sized battery into the chassis and getting the power profiling right without touching the typing experience. There was also literally no space on the underside of the PCB, so every component had to go on top. Even the USB-C housing is custom because a standard one is thicker than the keyboard.I've taken a lot of the feedback from our first keyboard, Altar I, and incorporated it into Altar II, including the detachable dial and pairing button placement.Reservations are open now ($1 locks in the $249 price, against $349 retail). Kickstarter launches 10 November 2026.

Hi everyone!Co-hunting something so physically beautiful with @conduit_design. He called it “the wildest keyboard I have ever seen”🤯At 4.75mm, Altar II barely looks like a mechanical keyboard. It sits almost as flat as a Magic Keyboard, without the usual height that comes with mechanical switches.The whole product is built around fitting a real mechanical typing experience into that almost impossibly thin frame. The switches still have 1.8mm of travel, and the engineering gets obsessive enough that even the USB-C housing had to be custom-made because normal ones were thicker than the keyboard.It’s rare to see a hardware project nail the industrial design and acoustics this well!