Keys

Key	Action
Ctrl+Enter	play / stop
Enter · double-click	hear the voice under the cursor
arrows · Alt+arrows	move (×4)
Shift+arrows · drag	select
right click · long press	cell menu: hear, what is it, example, ±1, copy/paste, put an operator
Ctrl+C / X / V	copy, cut, paste a block
Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y	undo / redo
Backspace · Delete	erase
Tab	jump 4 right
📱 phone	tap a cell, use the pad at the bottom; ⌨ opens the phone keyboard; double-tap = hear

In the top bar

Button	What it does
▶ PLAY	starts and stops (Ctrl+Enter)
BPM	the tempo, 40 to 999; a ! operator overrides it while playing
VOL	the volume
− 100% +	zooms the grid (also Alt + wheel)
TUTORIAL	opens a chapter of the tutorial
EXAMPLES	loads an example (it replaces the grid; Ctrl+Z brings it back)
● REC	records the screen and the sound to a video
reset	puts the arrows back where you typed them and clears the screen, without touching your code
new	empties the grid
save	downloads the grid as a text file
open	loads a saved text file
link	copies a link that holds the whole grid
FR / EN	switches language
about	who made Chipgrid

The side panel

Under the screen and the four channel meters, four tabs: Cell explains the cell under the cursor (what it is, what it reads, what it outputs right now), Tutorial follows the current chapter, Manual holds each operator’s page with an example to load, and Why 8-bit? tells the history.

The grid’s colours tell what each cell is: logic, movers, sound and screen each have their own, inputs and outputs too, and an empty input shows as ·: that is where an operator is listening.