Show KeyPress: Keystrokes
Cursor halo, themes & cat pet
Only for Mac
$9.99
Mac
Your keyboard, your pointer and a cat that types along — right in the picture. Viewers read exactly what you type, and nothing ever leaves your Mac.
Keypress puts your keyboard and mouse on screen — as real mechanical keycaps, a glowing cursor halo, and an animated cat that types along with you. Built for the moment someone else is watching: a screen share, a live stream, a conference talk, a recorded tutorial.
Your keystrokes never leave your Mac. Nothing is stored, nothing is transmitted, nothing is logged. Keypress draws the key you just pressed and forgets it.
SHOW EVERY KEYSTROKE
Three presentation modes: Latest shows one shortcut at a time, Horizontal History runs your keys as a live ribbon in the exact order you press them and scrolls at the pace you type, and Stacked History echoes what you actually wrote as large readable text that Backspace genuinely erases and that clears after a pause. In both history modes, modifiers, shortcuts and system keys get their own command zone with a repeat counter (⌘V ×3). In Latest mode, filter to shortcuts only, or fine-tune standalone modifiers, function keys and special keys independently.
MAKE THE POINTER IMPOSSIBLE TO MISS
The Cursor Halo follows your pointer with circle, squircle, square or diamond shapes, line treatments from soft aura to neon depth, and distinct reactions for clicks, dragging and scrolling. Your viewers always know where the action is.
MEET THE KEYPRESS PET
An original animated cat lives on your screen: it types at your typing speed, watches and hunts the cursor, sleeps when you rest, stretches, grooms and plays. Drag it anywhere. Every behavior has its own switch — or turn the pet off entirely.
MADE TO MATCH YOUR PICTURE
Nine built-in theme families for the keyboard and the pointer — from Classic and Minimal to Gaming and Neon — plus fully custom themes: fonts, colors, depth, corners, shadows and per-category overrides for ten key categories. Light and dark schemes can follow macOS automatically.
PUT IT EXACTLY WHERE IT BELONGS
Drag the real overlay directly on any display: the typed content and the command zone move independently and snap to each other, to screen edges and tight into the corners — or pick from eight edge presets. Each history mode keeps its own layout per display. Mirror the keyboard across selected displays with a separate saved position for each — it lands on the screen you are actually sharing.
INVISIBLE UNTIL YOU NEED IT
No window, no Dock icon. The overlay is click-through and fades away when you stop typing. Global shortcuts toggle the app, the halo, the content mode, the position editor and the overlay size mid-call. A separate status HUD confirms changes without touching your layout.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Keys are read from your active keyboard layout, so Cyrillic, German umlauts and other layouts show what you actually typed. Keyboard visualization pauses automatically while macOS Secure Input is active — passwords stay invisible. The app has no network access.
SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE
English, German, Spanish, French and Russian — switch instantly, no restart.
REQUIREMENTS
Keypress needs Input Monitoring permission to see which keys are pressed; a guided setup explains it on first launch. Caps Lock is not supported — macOS does not report it reliably.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Keypress 2.1 rebuilds both history modes around one idea: what your viewers see should read like the text you are actually typing.
NEW
• Command zone — modifiers, shortcuts and system keys get their own block with a repeat counter (⌘V ×3), placed independently from the typed content
• Stacked History now echoes real text — large readable lines with inline ⏎ and ⇥, Backspace genuinely erases, finished lines thin out behind the typing, and the echo clears after a pause
• Horizontal History is a true typing ribbon — keys appear in the exact order you press them, letters follow Shift and Caps Lock, and the row scrolls with a conveyor animation that adapts to your typing pace
• Input key sizing and tint — Space, Enter, Backspace and Tab render wide or narrow, with per-key overrides and a subtle tone that sets them apart from letters
• Text echo timing — control how long finished lines linger while you type and how quickly the text clears after a pause
• Zone snapping in the positioning editor — the two blocks stick to each other and to screen anchors, and can be placed tight into screen corners
IMPROVED
• Each history mode lays out its typed content and command zone separately per display, with a realistic three-line preview for Stacked mode
• The overlay rises in and settles out as one rigid unit, and hiding waits for the animation to finish
• Keyboard settings cleaned up — dead toggles removed, filters scoped to the mode where they actually act, and subtitles rewritten to describe the real behavior
FIXED
• Typing order no longer scrambles — Space and other special keys stop jumping into the middle of the row, and repeated letters stop flashing in place of each other
• Exit animation stutter on 60 Hz displays
The developer, Daniel Chaplin, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Daniel Chaplin
- Size
- 6.4 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
English and 4 more
- English, French, German, Russian, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Ilya Zhidkov 2026

