About Keylume
Keylume is an on-screen keyboard for macOS that lights up keys as you press them. Made for app demos, screencasts, and tutorials.
Most keystroke visualizers only show modifier combos or skip function keys. Keylume shows the whole keyboard, matching the look of a real Apple keyboard.
Key Facts
DeveloperThe low-tech guys
PlatformmacOS 14.0+ (Sonoma and later)
Price14-day free trial, then Free mode. One-time €8 for Pro
Features
- Full MacBook layout with every key, including media keys, arrows, and modifiers
- Many built-in themes, plus an intuitive theme editor to create your own
- Save themes, share them with others, import themes other people made
- Appears automatically when screen recording starts
- Triple-tap fn to toggle manually
- Auto-hide on hover: fades out and lets clicks through
- Drag to reposition, resize freely, remembers position
Pro Features
- Click to type: click keys on the on-screen keyboard to send actual keystrokes
- Keyboard layout adaptation: reads your system layout and updates key labels to match
- Key layers: hold a modifier and the labels update to show what each key will produce
