Keystroke count · Typing stats · Menu bar
Key Press Counter
How many keys you press, and when.
Key Press Counter records one thing: how many keys you press in each hour of the day. Not which keys, not in which app, not what you write. Just a number per hour. And that single number, kept day after day, is enough to tell you things about your day that you cannot see while you are in it.
For Mac. One purchase, no subscription, no ads.
What one number can show
Every day gets 24 counts, one per hour. From those the app works out where your day actually went.
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The menu bar
Today's total, always in view. Click it and you see the day so far, hour by hour, drawn over the shape of your typical day, plus one reference point: where a typical day of yours would be at this exact time. No arrow, no colour, no "ahead" or "behind".
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The shape of the day
When you started and when you stopped, from the first key to the last. The hour with the most keys. How many hours in between had no typing at all, and the longest run without a gap. How much of the day landed in its two busiest hours.
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Your usual day
After a few recorded days, the hours you usually type in, the hour that carries the most keys, and how much of a typical day falls after 18:00. It describes your habits; it does not set targets against them.
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The wider picture
The last 7 days as one bar per day, the last 30 once you have a week behind you, and how different a weekend day is from a weekday. Days the app was not running stay visible as gaps.
None of it is a target. The app never says you are ahead or behind, never suggests you type more, never awards anything. It shows the shape of the day and leaves the reading to you.
Privacy by design
The app cannot read what you type, because it never looks at it. It uses a listen-only system tap that counts the key press and lets the event through untouched. No key codes, no characters, no application names are ever stored.
There is no network access, no account, no sync, no analytics. Everything is computed on your Mac and stays in the app's own sandbox. Only counts and dates are written to disk.
Light on your Mac
Key Press Counter is built to stay light. It uses no CPU while you are not typing and almost none while you are, keeps a small, fixed amount of memory, and never touches the network. It does one thing, counting, and does nothing else in the background. The only trace of it is the number in your menu bar.
Requirements
- macOS 15 or later.
- On first launch macOS asks for the Input Monitoring permission. It is the only permission the app uses, and counting is the only thing it does with it.
- Launch at login is optional.
A number, and what it says about your day
Counted on your Mac. Kept on your Mac.
One purchase, no subscription, no ads.