Keystroke Pro
Keystroke Pro is a macOS utility that shows your keyboard input on screen for presentations, screen sharing, tutorials, and recorded demos.
What is Keystroke Pro?
Keystroke Pro is a macOS utility for visualizing keyboard input on screen while you work, teach, present, or record. It is designed for people who create tutorials, run live demos, share their screen in meetings, or want viewers to follow shortcuts and commands more easily. The app can show full keystrokes or modifier shortcuts, place the display in predefined positions on one or more monitors, and let you adjust how the keys look and how long they remain visible. It also supports quick toggling and launch-at-login behavior for workflows where you need keystroke display ready at any time. Keystroke Pro is published by Ixeau and is commonly used alongside screen recording, streaming, and video conferencing on Mac.
Key features
- Show typed keys and keyboard shortcuts directly on screen
- Display either all keystrokes or modifier shortcuts only
- Customize key styles, colors, sizes, opacity, and animations
- Choose predefined display positions across one or multiple monitors
- Control how long keystrokes stay visible during demos or recordings
- Quickly enable or disable the overlay with a shortcut or menu bar action
- Launch automatically at login for recurring presentation workflows
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Keystroke Pro is a legitimate presentation utility, but it needs Accessibility access to detect and display your keystrokes on macOS. That permission is normal for this type of app, and the app’s stated behavior is to keep keystroke input on your Mac and avoid showing text entered in secure password fields. Because it can observe keyboard activity for its core function, use it only when you want keystrokes to be visible and turn it off when you no longer need the overlay.
Recommendation: Keep Keystroke Pro if you use screen sharing, screencasts, teaching, or live demos where viewers need to see your shortcuts. If you no longer use it, removing it is usually fine, though you may also want to disable launch at login and revoke its Accessibility permission afterward.
Common paths
/Applications/Keystroke Pro.app
Container paths
~/Library/Containers/de.ixeau.KeystrokePro2
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