Keys in place
Keys on the left of the board sound to your left. Your ears know where you typed.
Give your keyboard
a voice.
Your Mac already has a keyboard. Clickk gives it the sound of a real mechanical switch, in every app.
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Holy Panda · Full and poppy. The community favourite.
macOS 14 or later. Apple silicon and Intel.
Never the same
press twice
Several recordings per key, plus a touch of pitch drift.
Seventeen
switch kits
Tactile, linear, clicky, retro, and a few that are just fun.
Lives in the
menu bar
No dock icon, no window in your way. One click to change kit.
Native, and
under 5 ms
Written in Swift on the system audio engine. No lag, no fan noise.
The kits
Recorded from real boards.
Every kit carries several takes per key, so holding one down never turns into a machine gun. This is the one you can hear right here.
Tactile
Holy Panda
Full and poppy. The community favourite.
Holy Panda is a recording by its original author, released under MIT.
The other 17, in the app
Every family the shelf covers, including three that are not switches at all and one recorded from a real mouse.
Tactile
- Crystal PurpleBright and pronounced, the sound most keyboard apps ship as default
- Brown ABSThe office classic: mild, slightly scratchy
- Holy Panda StudioHoly Panda again, recorded row by row
Linear
- CreamFamous for its dry, woody clack
- Purple DomeDeep, hollow thock from a rubber dome, with every key recorded separately
- Black PBTFirm and dark, a little muted
- DeepPremium smoothness, higher pitched
- OreoMuted and creamy, easy to live with all day
- SilkSmooth and rounded, with almost no rattle
- VelvetSofter and rounder, a little muted
Clicky
- Blue ABSThe archetypal loud clicky switch
- CrispSharper and tighter than the classic clicky
Retro
- Buckling Spring1984 Model M: heavy, metallic, gloriously loud
Fun
- PistolA sharp crack per key, with the action racking on return
- ShotgunA deep boom and a long tail; space hits hardest
- SuppressedMuted thumps, quiet enough to actually type with
Mouse
- Orochi V2Real recorded mouse switch, left and right
The rest of the shelf mixes recordings used under their original licences with kits synthesized from scratch for Clickk.
17switch kits
0characters read
6themes
<5 msto sound
Everything else
Small things, done properly.
Voicing pad
Drag to make any kit deeper or brighter. The tuning is remembered per kit.
Sleep
Goes quiet by itself the moment your microphone is live or the camera is on.
Overlay
Casts your keys on screen as keycaps. Shortcuts collapse into a single chip.
Themes
Six looks including a light one, plus a custom palette you pick yourself.
Make your own
Design a switch from scratch in Sound Studio, or import a kit you found elsewhere.
Mouse clicks too
Give your trackpad or mouse a click of its own, or leave it silent.
It never sees what you type.
Clickk needs Accessibility access to hear your keystrokes, which is a serious thing to ask for. So here is exactly what it does with it. It reads which physical key moved, and nothing else. Not the character, not the app you are in. Nothing is stored, nothing leaves your Mac, and there is no analytics of any kind.
Typing speed comes from the timing between keys. Accuracy comes from how often you reach for backspace. Characters are never read — not anywhere in the app, not for any feature.
Clickk$2.99, once
Get it for MacQuestions
Before you ask.
Does it work in every app?
Yes. Clickk listens at the system level, so it sounds the same whether you are in a terminal, a browser, Figma, or Mail. There is no per app setup.
Where does it live once installed?
In the menu bar only. There is no dock icon and no window sitting in your way. Clicking the menu bar icon changes kit, volume, and everything else in one place.
Why does it need Accessibility access?
macOS treats "tell me when a key moves" as the same permission as "read what was typed", so there is no narrower option to ask for. Clickk reads the key position, plays a sample, and discards it. Nothing is written to disk and nothing leaves your Mac.
Does it record or send what I type?
No. There is no logging, no file of keystrokes, no network code for telemetry, and no analytics SDK of any kind. The app works exactly the same with the network turned off.
Will it drain my battery or slow things down?
No. Samples are decoded once into memory and played through the system audio engine, so a keystroke costs almost nothing. Between keystrokes the app does no work at all.
Will people on my calls hear it?
Not if you leave Sleep switched on. Clickk mutes itself the moment another app takes your microphone or camera, and comes back when the call ends.
Can I use my own sounds?
In two ways. Sound Studio builds a switch from scratch by shaping the click, the body, and the tail, and you can import a folder of your own recordings as a kit.
Get Clickk.
$2.99once
Download for macOSComing to the Mac App Store. macOS 14 or later.
- Seventeen switch kits, from Cherry to a 1984 Model M
- Works in every app, system wide
- Typing speed and accuracy, counted as you work
- On screen key overlay
- Six themes plus a custom palette
- Sound Studio to build your own switch
- Every future update, at no extra cost
One time paymentNo subscription, ever.
No account neededNothing to sign up for, nothing to cancel.