About
Typebar is a keyboard overlay for the Mac, made for screen recordings, demos and learning shortcuts. Every key you press lights up on an on-screen keyboard, and a pill names each shortcut from the app's own menus, like Screenshot Selection for Shift Command 4.
Hold a modifier and the keys show what they do in the app in front. There are cheatsheets for every app, 20 hand-made packs and your own keybindings from 11 apps. Click ripples, a cursor halo, Spotlight, six switch sounds and 40 themes with a theme editor are built in.
Password fields stay private, and nothing you type is saved or sent anywhere. Typebar can show itself when a recording starts and hide when it stops.
Free for 24 hours, then $9 once for up to 5 Macs. macOS 14 or later, on Apple silicon and Intel.
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Discussion
Naming each shortcut from the app's own menus, not just flashing the raw keys, makes recordings much easier to follow for viewers. Keeping password fields private and showing up only while a recording runs are the details that make it safe to leave installed.