| Developer(s) | Stairways Software |
|---|---|
| Stable release | |
| Operating system | macOS |
| Type | |
| Website | www.keyboardmaestro.com |
Keyboard Maestro is (simplest definition) an application to launch macros on your Mac. These macros can be used to automate just about any repetitive task, like navigating running applications, opening documents, managing text, and controlling web applications. Keyboard Maestro is a powerful macro program for Mac OS X. Keyboard Maestro will take your Macintosh experience to a new level in Ease of Use. Keyboard Maestro can do just about anything, including complex, multi-step automations, scripting, interface control, periodic tasks and hundreds of other things. If you can do it yourself, you can probably get Keyboard Maestro to do it for you. In this brief article, I’d like to share some of the macros I use most often. I use these macros.
Keyboard Maestro is a closed-source commercial macOS-based application that allows automation of routine functions, such as navigating running applications, opening documents, typing text, expanding abbreviations, and controlling web applications, by means of a visual programming language with support for variables, styled clipboards, functions and text tokens, if-then-else logic, loops and other functions.[2][3]
Features include recording and designing macros,[4] clipboard history, saved clipboards, and navigation through applications and windows. Macros are organised into groups which can be limited to operate within certain applications.[5]
Keyboard Maestro was created and first released in 2002 by Michael Kamprath and purchased by Stairways Software in 2004, and has been in continuous development since then.
See also[edit]
- AutoHotkey (for Windows)
- AutoIt (for Windows)
- AutoKey (for Linux)
- Automise (for Windows)
- Automator (for macOS)
- Bookmarklet (for Windows)
- iMacros for Firefox (for Windows)
- KiXtart (for Windows)
- Macro Express (for Windows)
References[edit]
- ^'Revision History'. Retrieved 2019-08-15.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Breen, Christopher. 'Keyboard Maestro: 8 unexpected uses for the old-school Mac-hacking tool'. Macworld. IDG. Archived from the original on 7 August 2017. Retrieved 14 June 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Stairways Software Pty Ltd. 'Keyboard Maestro overview'. Stairways Software Pty Ltd. Retrieved 2013-08-01.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Wuerthele, Mike; Gallagher, William (10 December 2017). 'Hands On: Keyboard Maestro 8.0.4 speeds up working on your Mac'. appleinsider. Archived from the original on 30 August 2018. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- ^Stairways Software Pty Ltd. 'Keyboard Maestro features'. Stairways Software Pty Ltd. Retrieved 2013-08-01.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
Further reading[edit]
- 'Mac Gems: Keyboard Maestro 6 is a genius at repetitive tasks'. Retrieved 14 June 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- 'Keyboard Maestro 4.2'. Retrieved 14 June 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- 'Keyboard Maestro 7 Features Enhancements Throughout'. tidbits.com. Retrieved 14 June 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- 'Keyboard Maestro 6 Automates Web Pages, Adds Macro Syncing'. tidbits.com. Retrieved 14 June 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- 'Keyboard Maestro 5 Adds Programming Logic and More'. tidbits.com. Retrieved 14 June 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- 'Become a Maestro of Mac Macros - The Mac Observer'. 27 July 2016. Retrieved 14 June 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
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Keyboard Maestro is a powerful macro program for macOS. With Keyboard Maestro you can design your own shortcuts and trigger them at any time, automating many tedious things on your Mac.
Keyboard Maestro is compatible with Big Sur. If you have any troubles with accessibility in Mojave/Catalina/Big Sur (eg typing keystrokes, selecting menus, copy/paste, etc), you need to toggle the accessibility permissions (System Preferences, Security & Privacy, Privacy, Accessibility) for Keyboard Maestro and Keyboard Maestro Engine off and then on again, and/or remove them and get the system to re-add them.
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You can find out more about us, or Keyboard Maestro,read our press releases, look at our history over the last twenty years, or contact us.
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