Pulse

What it does

Boost your typing game with real-time background monitoring! Track WPM, CPM, and accuracy across all apps. Get instant menu bar insights, detailed stats, and graphs. Privacy-first with local storage. Perfect for writers, coders, students, and pros.

Pulse is a menu-bar app for macOS that measures your real typing speed and accuracy automatically, across every app — with AI & autocomplete keystrokes filtered out, a keyboard heatmap, and a private, on-device design.

Pulse measures how fast you really type — automatically, across every app on your Mac, with autocomplete and AI filtered out. Below is its actual dashboard, running on example data. Each feature has its own page, showing the real interface on example data — the heatmap, the stats, the leaderboard and more. Paste, autocomplete, snippets and AI all inflate typing numbers. Pulse detects synthetic keystrokes and strips them out — so your WPM reflects what you actually typed. No other typing tracker measures this. 18% of those keystrokes were AI / autocomplete — filtered out. Pulse records that you pressed a key and when — never the letters, words or passwords. Your stats live in a local…from pulsetyping.com

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