Developer Serhiy Bykov has created and released Keyty, a new free open-source application for macOS that displays keystrokes, hotkeys, and mouse actions directly on the screen in real time.
Developer Serhiy Bykov has created and released Keyty, a new free open-source application for macOS that displays keystrokes, hotkeys, and mouse actions directly on the screen in real time.
According to the IT expert, Keyty will become an indispensable assistant for anyone who creates content and shows their screen to viewers. The application makes every shortcut or click transparent to the audience, which simplifies communication during.
Recording tutorials and screencasts: viewers can immediately see which hotkeys the author is using.
Conducting online presentations and demo sessions: makes the material easier to understand for colleagues or clients.
Live streaming: visualizes the dynamics of data entry and mouse actions.
Training and lectures: allows you to avoid being distracted by constantly saying combinations like Cmd + Shift + P.
Sergey Bykov started developing Keyty as a more modern, flexible, and visually appealing alternative to the popular KeyCastr utility. The main goal was to create a native macOS application with rich customization options and high-quality visualization of mouse actions.
Tool capabilities:
realistic overlay displays hotkeys, special combinations, media keys, and regular text input in real time;
adds cursor highlighting with the ability to customize the shape, color, thickness, and size of the ring, and also visualizes clicks and scrolling;
users can change themes, colors, dice size, transparency, screen placement, and character fade timer;
the ability to configure saving a visual track of recent actions or hide certain types of keys (for example, regular text typing, leaving only combinations with Cmd or Alt;
separate settings for overlay positioning on different screens, selection of anchor and message stacking direction.
The application is completely free, written natively for macOS, and does not consume unnecessary system resources.
You can get acquainted with the project on the official website keyty.app or in the GitHub repository .
