Keyty

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Keyty is a free, open-source app that visualizes your keyboard and mouse actions in real time, making demos, presentations, tutorials, and livestreams easier to follow. It gives your audience a clear view of every shortcut, click, and input so you can communicate more effectively on screen.

Features

Keyboard

• Real-time display of keyboard shortcuts, special keys, and typed input
• Customizable overlay styles, themes, size, layout, and fade timing
• Filters for modified keystrokes, special keys, media keys, and mouse events

Mouse

• Visualize mouse clicks and scroll actions alongside keyboard input
• Pointer highlight ring with configurable shape, color, size, and thickness
• Pointer icon overlay with adjustable position, size, background, and tint
• Mouse ripple visualizer for emphasizing click feedback during demos

Customization

Keyty can be tuned from Settings to match your workflow and presentation style:

• Appearance: Choose keyboard overlay styles, themes, colors, and size.
• History: Keep a visual trail of your recent inputs.
• Filters: Control whether modified keystrokes, special keys, media keys, and mouse events appear.
• Mouse: Configure pointer rings and pointer icons, including visibility, shape, color, size, offset, background, and tint.
• Placement: Pick the display, screen anchor, margin, and stacking direction.

Installation

GitHub

Download the latest release from GitHub

Homebrew

brew install --cask keyty

Build from Source

To build Keyty locally from source, see BUILD.md.

Permissions

Keyty requires your permission to receive events from macOS in order to display your keystrokes and mouse clicks. See PERMISSIONS.md for setup and troubleshooting.

Privacy

Input events are processed locally on your Mac. Keyty does not record, store, or upload your keystrokes, typed text, mouse clicks, or pointer activity. See PRIVACY.md for details, including Sparkle update checks.

Support

If Keyty is useful to you, consider giving the project a ⭐ on GitHub. It helps more people discover it and is the easiest way to support its development.