qmk/qmk_toolbox

A Toolbox companion for QMK Firmware

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updated Aug 20, 2026

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QMK Toolbox

Latest Release GitHub Workflow Status Discord

This is a collection of flashing tools packaged into one app. It supports auto-detection and auto-flashing of firmware to keyboards.

WindowsmacOS
WindowsmacOS

Flashing

QMK Toolbox supports the following bootloaders:

And the following ISP flashers:

  • AVRISP (Arduino ISP)
  • USBasp (AVR ISP)
  • USBTiny (AVR Pocket)

If there's an interest in any others, they can be added if their commands are known.

HID Console

The Toolbox also listens to HID messages on usage page 0xFF31 and usage 0x0074, compatible with PJRC's hid_listen.

If you have CONSOLE_ENABLE = yes in your keyboard's rules.mk, you can print messages with xprintf(), useful for debugging:

Hello world from Console

See the QMK Docs for more information.

Installation

System Requirements

  • macOS 12 (Monterey) or higher
  • Windows 10 May 2020 Update (20H1) or higher

Dependencies

When using the QMK Toolbox on Windows, it will prompt at first run to install the necessary drivers.

If you run into any issues with "Device not found" when flashing, then you may need to use Zadig to fix the issue.

Download

The current version of QMK Toolbox is 0.3.4.

For Homebrew users, it is also available as a Cask:

brew install qmk-toolbox
atmel
avr
caterina
dfu
macos
qmk
qmk-firmware
stm32

qmk/qmk_toolbox

A Toolbox companion for QMK Firmware

C#

3,105

393 commits

updated Aug 20, 2026

See the code

README

QMK Toolbox

Latest Release GitHub Workflow Status Discord

This is a collection of flashing tools packaged into one app. It supports auto-detection and auto-flashing of firmware to keyboards.

WindowsmacOS
WindowsmacOS

Flashing

QMK Toolbox supports the following bootloaders:

And the following ISP flashers:

  • AVRISP (Arduino ISP)
  • USBasp (AVR ISP)
  • USBTiny (AVR Pocket)

If there's an interest in any others, they can be added if their commands are known.

HID Console

The Toolbox also listens to HID messages on usage page 0xFF31 and usage 0x0074, compatible with PJRC's hid_listen.

If you have CONSOLE_ENABLE = yes in your keyboard's rules.mk, you can print messages with xprintf(), useful for debugging:

Hello world from Console

See the QMK Docs for more information.

Installation

System Requirements

  • macOS 12 (Monterey) or higher
  • Windows 10 May 2020 Update (20H1) or higher

Dependencies

When using the QMK Toolbox on Windows, it will prompt at first run to install the necessary drivers.

If you run into any issues with "Device not found" when flashing, then you may need to use Zadig to fix the issue.

Download

The current version of QMK Toolbox is 0.3.4.

For Homebrew users, it is also available as a Cask:

brew install qmk-toolbox
atmel
avr
caterina
dfu
macos
qmk
qmk-firmware
stm32

Project health

Overall

4.4/10

Maintained

7/10

Code review

8/10
OpenSSF Scorecard

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