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Key'n'Stroke

Displays keystrokes, mouse clicks, cursor position, shortcuts, and special keys in a fully customizable overlay. Offers click-through mode, opacity, resizable window, history of pressed keys, high-dpi and multi-dpi screen support, and notification area icon.

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  • Discontinued

Platforms

  • Windows
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Discontinued

The project seems no longer developed. Last version, 1.1.0, released in February 2022), can be still downloaded from Github

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Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Customizable

Features

  1.  Mouse Highlighting
  2.  Keylogger
  3.  Keystroke Visualization
  4.  Customizable shortcuts

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Top Positive Comment
hced
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Free and super lightweight. Visually smooth (no overlay lag). Hoping for some more customizations later on. Such as the ability to show everything (clicks and keys) in the same window and possibly also everything by the cursor (disabling the window).

chuck3252
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Great little utility for showing mouse button clicks when demonstrating software.

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MuTsunTsai
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This is the only app on Windows that works perfectly for me. Carnac has bugs supporting multiple monitor and has stopped maintaining for years. KeycastOW has observable lagging in showing mouse click ripples in open-source version, and the latest version is not free. Other alternatives has ugly UI.

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Sour Ce
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Great FLOSS software that does what it says it does very well. Used it for some game debugging and figured out my problem immediately!

svejdam
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The only really free SW I found so far for visualizing mouse clicking and showing pressed keys on keyboard at the same time, which I was needed for my presentation videos :)

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What is Key'n'Stroke ?

Key'n'Stroke is a software tool that visually represents keystrokes and mouse clicks in an overlay window. It displays special keys like volume control and shortcuts, and gives visual cues of mouse cursor position and pressed buttons. It features a 'Click Through' function and customizable opacity. Users can adjust icons, colors, font, size, position, text position, and orientation. The software keeps a history of pressed keys, has an accessible icon in the notification area, and is compact with no installation required. It is also compatible with high-dpi and multi-dpi screens.

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  •  546 Stars
  •  62 Forks
  •  58 Open Issues
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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Key'n'Stroke , and it has gotten 15 likes

Key'n'Stroke was added to AlternativeTo by tim_abell on and this page was last updated . Key'n'Stroke is sometimes referred to as KeynStroke, Key n Stroke, PxKeystrokesForScreencasts.