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Dev tools · June 15, 2012

Keys, Mac app for learning typing

Over the last couple of months I have designed and written Keys, a Mac application the helps learning typing and that is supposed to meet Mac users standards for a well-designed application. My goal is to become a micro-ISV or indie developer. The app is only in the Mac app store for now (no trial yet), since end of May, and I have been busy putting together a website and a personal blog since. I would be very interested what the HN community thinks about the application, how you like it, and how it is presented, from a business angle. Prior to this project, I have done much more work on…

Keys, Mac app for learning typing launched on June 15, 2012 with 21 votes, #75 of 409 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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In plain words

Keys is a Mac application designed to teach touch typing through guided lessons. It helps users learn to type with all fingers without looking at the keyboard, aiming to reduce the physical effort and mental strain of typing. The app is built to meet Mac design standards and is available on the Mac App Store. Keys is for writers, developers, and anyone who wants to improve their typing speed and efficiency to express ideas more freely while writing.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Learn to type with all fingers, without conscious effort. This Mac application will guide you to learn and master touch typing. Express your thoughts more freely with less stress, and strengthen your online voice. When writing, you’d like to be carried by inspiration or impulse, but you feel hindered that typing requires so much effort. Still, you know deep down that you have something unique to say or build. Once you start writing, you tire quickly of the hunt-and-peck approach to sharing your ideas. Learning to type without looking requires too much training, and any typing trainer you’ve found is inelegant or elementary. You have to match and memorize keys and fingers, and it’s a lot of…from getkeysapp.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Over the last couple of months I have designed and written Keys, a Mac application the helps learning typing and that is supposed to meet Mac users standards for a well-designed application. My goal is to become a micro-ISV or indie developer. The app is only in the Mac app store for now (no trial yet), since end of…

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