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- Homebrew
brew install --cask keyboard-maestro
About Keyboard Maestro
Keyboard Maestro lets Mac users build macros through a visual editor, chaining together actions with conditionals, variables, and triggers like hotkeys or app launches. It automates tasks across applications, the file system, and the web without requiring scripting knowledge.
Strengths
- Visual editor makes complex conditional automations approachable without coding
- Deep macOS integration for triggering macros from almost any event
Limitations
- macOS only
- One-time paid license
Details
- Pricing
- PaidOne-time paid license from Stairways Software.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Stairways Software
- Platforms
- macOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Visual macro builder for automating apps, files, and workflows on macOS
- Categories
- Automation
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus Resource Hub (Productivity & Knowledge); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 2 sources on file.
Alternatives to Keyboard Maestro
Compare allSoftware that can replace Keyboard Maestro for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Apple Shortcuts
Apple's built-in drag-and-drop automation app for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
Apple Shortcuts is free and built into Mac, iPhone and iPad with a drag-and-drop editor, but it is less powerful for complex conditional logic.
Hammerspoon
A bridge between macOS and Lua that lets a short script move windows, bind hotkeys and react to system events.
Hammerspoon is free and MIT licensed, automating macOS through Lua scripts instead of a visual editor, and does nothing until you write a config file.
Keyboard Cowboy
Builds macOS keyboard shortcuts that launch apps, run scripts and react to app changes.
Keyboard Cowboy is free and MIT licensed, binding workflows that launch apps and run scripts to key sequences scoped to particular applications.
BetterTouchTool
macOS customization tool for trackpad gestures, shortcuts, and window snapping.
BetterTouchTool focuses on trackpad gestures, shortcuts and window snapping on macOS, and uses a paid license after the trial instead of a one-time purchase.
Keyboard Maestro as an alternative
Listings that name Keyboard Maestro as an alternative.
AutoHotkey
A Windows scripting language for hotkeys, text expansion, key remapping and automating anything on screen.
Keyboard Maestro moves to macOS with a visual macro editor instead of a scripting language, and it requires a one-time paid license and is closed source.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
Karabiner-Elements
The keyboard remapper for macOS, with rules that can differ per keyboard and go far beyond swapping two keys.
Espanso
A text expander that watches for a keyword you type and replaces it with whatever you set, in any program.
Alerter
A command-line tool for sending interactive macOS notifications from shell scripts and other programs.
Talon
Hands-free computer control using voice, noises, eye tracking and scripts.
