A small crew. Real miles on it.
We're not going to pretend Apollo58 has thousands of reviews — it doesn't yet. Right now it's a handful of testers and the two of us who built it, typing on these boards every day. Here's what they've said, and why we made this thing in the first place.
In their own words
The build quality in one word is, well, phenomenal...The performance and customisability take the cake for me. For gaming on PS5, I created a numpad out of the second board and used the first board for my combat movement keys making it a perfect weekend solution. Learning curve for the transition to the boards is real but it genuinely feels like it has been built by a user.
Hot-swap plus the browser configurator is a dangerous combination — I've rebuilt my layout four times. Every change flashed first try. Appreciate the customisability.
My wrists and shoulder have thanked me for shifting to a split keyboard. The cutomisability made the shift to a smaller layout much easier.
A note from the two of us
It started with a simple quest: buying a split keyboard. We'd read the threads, watched the build videos, and knew our set-up missed an ergo keeb. Then we tried to actually buy one.
Every good option lived overseas. That meant weeks of shipping, custom fees doubling the prices. Despite this, another catch at the end: if anything broke, the warranty was miles away. So we turned our quest from buying a split keeb to building one instead.
We sent early units to friends who were curious, and to fellow keeb enthusiasts who became our beta testers. Over five to six months of daily typing, honest feedback and countless firmware revisions, Apollo58 became the board we wanted on our desks.
How to live with the board
The things we tell every new owner. Read them before you decide the first week isn't for you.
Give it ten days
Columnar stagger feels wrong for about a week — it highlights the bad typing habits that worked on a slab but won't on a split. Your muscle memory unlearning the slab does not translate to the boards being bad. Every tester crossed back to full speed around day ten. Don't judge it before then.
Set the tent low, then raise it
Start flat, split the halves to shoulder width, and only add tenting once typing feels natural. Chasing the perfect angle on day one just gets in the way of settling in.
Remap in the browser day one onwards
If a key fights you, move it. The configurator flashes over USB in seconds and the layout is yours — the layers are a starting point, not a rulebook.
Typing on one? Tell us the truth.
This page grows one honest review at a time. If you've spent real days with Apollo58 — glowing or brutal — send it over. We publish the good and the bad, and we read every word.
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