What is Woodpecker?
Woodpecker is a Mac menu bar app that makes your keyboard sound like a real mechanical keyboard. Every key plays a recorded mechanical switch and each key has its own sound: the space bar is deep, Return is heavy, every letter is its own. Each key plays its press going down and its release coming up, panned by where it sits on the keyboard.
22 switches, 12 of them recorded key by key. Tone goes from deep to bright, and Room adds a little of the space around a keyboard. It works with the MacBook's own keys or a plugged-in keyboard.
It stays quiet when it should: silent while your mic is in use, silent in password fields, and Control-Option-K mutes it from anywhere. It records nothing you type.
$4.99 once, 24 hours free, up to 3 Macs. macOS 13 or later.
22 switches
Tactile, clicky, linear and Topre switches, from Cherry MX Brown, Blue, Black and Red to Holy Panda, NovelKeys Cream, Alps SKCM Blue and a buckling spring. Pick one and every key you press plays it.
Deep or bright
Slide Tone from deep to bright, and Room from close to the sound of the space around a keyboard.
Quiet when it should be
- Silent while your mic is on
- Silent in password fields
- Control-Option-K mutes it anywhere
- Records nothing you type: it only listens, and cannot type, press or change a key
Details
- $4.99 once, 24 hours free
- Up to 3 Macs
- macOS 13 or later, Apple silicon and Intel
- Made by Everyday Mac Tools
