Your mouse is slowing you down.
Every time your hand leaves the keyboard, you lose focus.
I switched to a keyboard-only workflow on macOS, and it's surprisingly addictive. The app is made using Swift, and it is created with the help of AI.
Try it yourself:
👉 https://github.com/bhavesh164/mouseless
You'll wonder why you ever reached for a mouse.
Note: This app is made with the help of LLM (AI)
What My Project Does
CaptoKey is a macOS screen recorder with a floating HUD that captures your keystrokes in real time and burns them directly into the final final.mp4 as overlays — no post-editing needed. It saves a timeline.json of every keypress with timestamps, so you can tweak overlay styles and re-render without re-recording. Also ships with a subtitle burner — write a .txt file with HH:MM:SS -> text timestamps and it burns them into any video.
Built with PySide6, mss, Pillow, FFmpeg, and macOS Quartz CGEventTap (rock solid — no pynput crashes).
Target Audience
Developers and content creators who make coding tutorials or screencasts and want viewers to see exactly what keys they're pressing — without any manual editing. Hobby/personal project but stable enough for daily use. macOS only for now.
Comparison
KeyCastr — shows keystrokes on screen during recording only, nothing burned into the video file
OBS — no keystroke overlay feature at all
CaptoKey — overlays are baked directly into the output file, and the re-render-from-timeline feature lets you change styles without re-recording
Vibe coded with Claude, then actually made to work 😅