Nooklink: download and how to use the Animal Crossing: New Horizons app

Nooklink

Animal Crossing: New Horizons was launched on March 20, 2020. A few months later version 1.5.0 arrived, which in addition to adding new patches and improvements, brought NookLink , a very useful complement that allows us to use our mobile as a helper for the play. NookLink is for many an unknown app, but it offers a lot of options to make life easier and even check game data without having to turn on the console. If you want to know more information, you are in the right place, because we will explain step by step everything that this magnificent tool for New Horizons offers .

What is NookLink?

NookLink is a complement to Animal Crossing: New Horizons that is integrated into the Nintendo Switch Online mobile app. The application is free, but to use it it is necessary to pay the monthly or annual membership of Nintendo Switch Online. It is available for both iOS and Android smartphones since 2017. Its main function is that we use our mobile as voice chat during the online games that we carry out with the console. On top of that, it has some extra add-ons for some titles, as is the case with NookLink for New Horizons .

In this case, NookLink is one of the most comprehensive “apps” built into the Nintendo Switch Online app out there to date. The application simulates the Nookófono that Tom Nook gives us at the beginning of our adventure on the island, only this time, we will be able to interact with his apps directly on our smartphone .

Discover NookLink and all its applications

NookLink has a total of 9 applications at the moment, although several have been added since its launch.

Passport

“Passport” is the first icon of our NookLink. In this app we can consult many of our game data without having to turn on our Nintendo Switch.

Mainly we can see the information of our passport, with the photo that we have taken in the game, the name of our island , our birthday and the date on which we started the game. We can also check our creator ID and our dream number to share it with our friends on WhatsApp or on social networks.

Finally, in this section we can consult the recent dreams that we have had and see the residents who currently live on our island ; not only the animals, but also the users of our Nintendo Switch who have a session in our game. The app will also tell us whether or not we are the island’s neighborhood spokesperson, if we are an original insulan and the birthdays of all our neighbors, so you don’t forget to congratulate anyone.

Chat

In this second application we can write to our friends in a more comfortable way than with the Nintendo Switch keyboard. Even so, if we are playing with trusted people, the most logical thing is to leave NookLink and use the voice chat of the Nintendo Switch Online app .

As a nice detail, the written chat does not allow the use of emojis . Instead, we will have to use the emotions of the video game itself.

Friends

In this section you can consult your list of friends , as well as quickly see if any are connected without having to turn on the console. This NookLink app allows you to send a broadcast message to all your contacts , send a message to a friend (only if they are online) and manage your friends , that is, delete them if you no longer like them or even report them to Nintendo in case someone who is breaking community rules has snuck in.

Emotions

It is a kind of “emoji keyboard” . Its usefulness is that we have our mobile on with this screen open while we play on the islands of our friends. In this way, we can react quickly, making expressions very quickly, which will give the roleplay a further degree of immersion. In addition, the expressions that we use the most will appear at the top of the interface, so that we can make use of them even more quickly.

Catalogue

Do you remember that in a game update the TeleNook app was added to our character’s phone? Well, this NookLink app is exactly the same, but on our real-world iPhone or Android .

Here will be all the furniture, clothes and objects that you have collected (or ever touched) in your game of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. You can see the list in alphabetical order, or do a search with a specific term. You can also check the category of each item, its original price, the price that Tendo and Nendo would pay us for a second-hand sale and the color variants that we have discovered of that same product. We will be informed if it is possible to personalize the object and mark it as a favorite in case we need to quickly consult your information again. Finally, we can also go to the “Recent articles” option, where the last 20 articles that we have acquired in the game will appear.

Nook Points

If we enter NookLink every day, they will give us Nook points, which can be exchanged for exclusive in-game items. You can also check the history of gifts that we have redeemed.

This application is quite nice, since every day it will show us a famous phrase from a character in the video game.

Insular newspaper

The coolest feature of NookLink is this personalized newspaper , which chronicles the latest events that have taken place on our island paradise.

We do not know who the gossip is who writes it, but he does not miss a detail. In addition to showing all kinds of gossip , small notes related to seasonal information will also be made public. More articles, and generally more information, will be displayed the more you play.

In addition, the market value of turnips is displayed at the bottom of the screen, exactly the same as in the salmon leaves of real newspapers. This will save you having to check in the store twice a day.

Finally, you should know that this newspaper will be automatically deleted if you make a sudden change of date to your console . If you are a good player and do not do temporary tricks, you can also read previous editions of the newspaper in the newspaper library section.

Designs

This is one of the most useful NookLink apps. It allows us to introduce designs in the game without having to add the code. To use it, we simply have to search the Internet or ask our friends to share their personalized designs in QR format. Once that is done, we can scan the code using the camera of our mobile phone or simply import the image from the gallery.

Using this app, you can also import your designs from Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer from Nintendo 3DS . Of course, you can only import one image at a time.

When you do a scan, you will have to go back to the game and take out your Nookóphone. Then go to My Designs and press the (-) button on your Nintendo Switch to download the content from the Internet. Finally, select the gap in which you want to overwrite the image and press accept. Once this is done, you will be able to scan a new QR code using NookLink with your mobile.

Settings and Notifications.

The last icon of all is the one that allows us to enter the settings panel. It allows you to change the insulan of your NookLink or adjust the language.

Finally, above the apps there is a small icon of a letter. It is a notification panel that shows the latest news from NookLink.

How to activate Nooklink

To access NookLink, the first thing you need to do is have an active Nintendo Switch Online subscription and link it to the user with whom you are playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons .

Once that is done, you will have to activate it by doing the following steps:

  1. Launch the game from the menu of your Nintendo Switch.
  2. At the Animal Crossing: New Horizons title screen , press the (-) button on your Joy-Con or Pro Controller.
  3. During the conversation with Tom Nook, be careful and read well everything he says calmly so as not to mistakenly press anything wrong. Go to the “NookLink Settings” option.
  4. Read on and say yes in the dialog to activate NookLink .

How to download Nooklink

NookLink is within the Nintendo Switch Online app , as we discussed at the beginning. You will have to download the application on your Android or iOS device from their respective stores (Play Store or App Store).

Once downloaded, you will have to open the application and log in with your Nintendo credentials. They will ask you to associate your game profile with the application. Once the process is complete, you can access NookLink by tapping the Animal Crossing: New Horizons icon on the main screen of the Nintendo Switch Online app on your mobile.