Keyboard Maestro
App for creating automations in MacOS
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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]
| Keyboard Maestro | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Stairways Software |
| Stable release | 11.0.4[1]
/ May 20, 2025 |
| Operating system | macOS |
| Type | Automation utility |
| Website | www.keyboardmaestro.com |
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
- 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)