What one number can show
Every day gets 24 counts, one per hour. From those alone the app works out the shape of your day. These are the figures for the example day above, as the Statistics window shows them.
07–24
From the first key to the last
17 hours from start to end
11–12
The hour with the most keys
4,010 keys in that hour
3 h
Hours with no keys at all
between the first key and the last
07–13
Longest run of hours with typing
6 hours in a row
25%
Of today's keys fell in the two busiest hours
the rest over the other 12 hours with typing
2,176
Keys per hour with typing
14 hours had at least one key
After a few days the app also learns your usual day: the light band behind the bars. Then come the last 7 days, the last 30, and how a weekend day compares with a weekday. None of it is a target. The app never says you are ahead or behind and never suggests you type more. An hour without keys is an hour without typing, nothing more: you may have been reading, thinking or away.
A sky in your menu bar
When you spend long hours at the computer, often far from a window, time passes as a number on a clock. Behind today's chart the app draws the sky as it is right now: dawn, a sun that crosses the chart with the hour, dusk, then stars and tonight's real moon phase. Now and then, at night, a shooting star.
It follows the season too: snow in winter, petals in spring, falling leaves in autumn, fireflies on summer nights. It never asks where you are. The sky at the top of this page is the same one, drawn for your time right now.
Notes that wait for a break
The panel always has a field for a quick note. Save it as it is, set a reminder for a day and time, or choose Next break: the reminder arrives after 3, 5 or 10 minutes without typing, not in the middle of what you are doing.
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Next break · after 5 minutes without keys
Every note stays in a list you can open from the panel, edit at any time, and tick off once a reminder is done.
Rain that follows your typing
Choose Rain or Wind and a soft sound starts, grows as you type steadily and settles when you slow down. After a few minutes away from the keyboard it fades out on its own. The same rain falls across the sky in the panel, snow in winter, so what you hear is what you see.
It is not a recording: it is made on your Mac as you type, so it follows your own rhythm. While it plays, a reminder at your next break arrives with a soft chime inside it. You can try it at the top of this page: choose Rain, then type.
Share your day
One click turns today into a 5-second vertical clip: the day's total, the hours rising on the chart, the sky moving behind them. It holds nothing but those counts and the sky, and it goes only where you choose to share it.
Private by design
Key Press Counter never sees what you type. It knows how many keys were pressed, never which ones, so there is nothing it could read, store or send. It needs no special permission to count, and keys typed in password fields are not counted at all.
There is no network access, no account, no sync and no analytics. Counts, notes and settings stay inside the app on your Mac. Read the privacy policy.
Light on your Mac
It is built to run all day next to the apps you actually work in. Counting costs almost nothing, the sky only moves while the panel is open, and the sound switches itself off whenever there is nothing to hear.
- macOS 15.6 or later.
- No permission needed to count. macOS asks about notifications only when you set your first reminder.
- Launch at login is optional.
A number, and what it says about your day
Counted on your Mac. Kept on your Mac.
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