Recorded real switches, not synthesized

Your keyboard,now satisfying.

Recorded real switches, not synthesized.

30+ mechanicalMechanical keyboard sounds for Mac.

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Launch price for the first 100 customers - $6.99 after that.

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36Keyboard packs
8Mouse packs
5.3 MBUniversal download
2msBefore the hit
0Keystrokes recorded
New in 1.1

Your typing, in numbers.

Kiiwi counts your keys while it plays them, and keeps the numbers on your Mac. Never which keys, never what you type.

  • Today and the last 14 daysHover any day for its count. The menu opens on today's number.
  • A streak that means typingDays with 50 or more keys, so it counts work, not just owning a Mac.
  • Typing speed, measured honestlyYour best sustained WPM over a full minute, letters and space only. Shortcuts and arrows don't inflate it.
  • Top apps and fun factsWhere you type most, your busiest hour, how far your keys have travelled.
  • A card worth postingTurn your week into a share card: nine colours, nine gradients, nine wallpapers. Made on your Mac, posted by you.

Stored only on your Mac. Export as JSON or reset from Settings.

Kiiwi share card on an aurora wallpaper: 185,964 keys all time Kiiwi share card in mint: 185,971 keys all time, a 10 day streak, 68 WPM typing speed, 69 WPM playground best and 744 m of key travel Kiiwi share card on a sunset gradient: 185,972 keys all time

Real cards, rendered by the app from my own typing.

Playground

Type to hear it.

The same recordings the app ships, playing in your browser. Switch packs with the picker under the board, and type for fifteen seconds. Best on headphones: the spatial placement is subtle on speakers.

This page counts keystrokes, never keys. In the app, ⇧⌘K mutes it from anywhere.

Kiiwi mascot reacting to your typing Type to hear it
15s 0wpm 100% acc

Pick a switch. The sound and the board change together.

Switches
The details

The details you hear.

Most of this exists because the obvious shortcut sounded wrong.

Placed by key position

Type Q and it comes from the left, P from the right, the way a real board sounds.

Never the same twice

Five pitch variants of every sample, picked fresh on each keystroke.

Every row recorded

The number, top, home and bottom rows are separate recordings, like a real board.

Survives your headphones

Switch output mid-sentence and Kiiwi carries on. No relaunch.

Privacy

It hears a key move.
Never what you typed.

A key picks a sound and is gone in the same instant. Your stats count how many keys, never which ones, and stay on your Mac.

Never recordedA key picks a sound and is gone. Nothing is saved, buffered or sent.
Silent in password fieldsWhen macOS protects a field, Kiiwi hears nothing from it.
Stats stay on your MacCounts only, never which keys. Export or reset any time.
Listens, never typesIts one permission is read-only. Switch it off and Kiiwi goes quiet.

All it ever sends is a licence check and a daily look for updates.

Why this exists

I could hear
the shortcuts.

Kiiwi started as a fix for a sound that felt wrong. Here is what that took.

Kiiwi mascot

Most apps in this category are a folder of samples and a player. The first version of Kiiwi was too, and it sounded wrong in a way I could not stop noticing.

One pack had 60 milliseconds of near silence in front of every key. You don't hear that as silence, you hear it as lag. Every sample is now trimmed to 2 ms before the switch actually bottoms out, so the sound lands with your finger.

430 checks run before any build ships. Every switch resolves a sample for every key, every pack decodes, and the audio graph survives you unplugging your headphones. That is the part nobody notices, which is the whole point of doing it.

Tamil IniyanBuilt Kiiwi. One person, one Mac, 30+ switches.
First run

Three steps, about a minute.

01

Download and open it.

A 5.3 MB universal app, signed and notarized by Apple, straight from this site. No App Store, no installer.

Kiiwi app icon being dragged to Applications Applications
02

Allow Accessibility.

macOS asks once. Kiiwi only listens: it never records what you type, and it goes silent in password fields. Turn it on and Kiiwi notices in about a second and a half, no restart.

Accessibility

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Quill app iconQuill
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Pick a switch and type.

Anywhere: your editor, your browser, Slack, Terminal, Spotlight. Nothing to set up, and ⇧⌘K gives you the room back.

now it thocks.

Live on this site

Thocks, right now. From all over.

Every dot is a city where someone typed on this site, coloured by the switch they picked, and every country glows by how much it has typed. New thocks ripple in as they land. Cities only, nothing more precise.

 

Type in the playground above to put your city on the map.

  • Linear
  • Tactile
  • Clicky
  • Mouse

Pricing

Pay once. Lifetime access.

Buy it once and it is yours, updates included. If it doesn't fit how you work, email within 14 days and we'll refund it.

$4.99 Launch price · 100 spots
$6.99 After 100 customers
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$4.99
launch price, one-time
  • One-time payment
  • Use it on up to 2 Macs
  • 14-day money-back guarantee
  • Lifetime updates included
  • All features unlocked from day one
  • Native macOS app
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Before you
download.

The things people actually ask, answered without marketing. If yours isn't here, the answer is probably in the source.

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How do I get typing sounds on a Mac?

Install a keyboard sound app that plays a mechanical keyboard sound for every key you press. Kiiwi is one: choose from 30+ real switch recordings, and it sounds in every app, on a MacBook's built-in keyboard or any external one, on macOS 14 or later. Hear every switch in the playground before you download, or read the guide to typing sounds for Mac. Weighing it against the others? See the best keyboard sound apps for Mac.

Does it work in every app?

Yes. Kiiwi listens at the system level, so it sounds the same in your editor, your browser, Slack, Terminal and Spotlight. It never intercepts or alters your keystrokes. It only listens for them, so nothing you type is changed, delayed or swallowed.

Why does it need Accessibility permission?

macOS requires it to observe key events system-wide. It's the same permission text-expanders and shortcut apps use. Kiiwi asks once, and the app detects the grant within about a second and a half, with no restart. If you'd rather not grant it, Kiiwi still runs but can only sound for keys typed in its own window.

Is anything I type recorded or sent anywhere?

No. A key event is read only to decide which sample to play, then it's discarded. For your stats, Kiiwi adds one to a few counters: today, this hour, the keyboard row, the switch, and the app you're typing in. It never notes which key it was, and the counts stay in a file on your Mac. Kiiwi sends two things: your licence key, to check the licence is still valid (when you activate, on launch and once a day; offline it keeps working for 14 days), and a daily request for the update list. What you type never leaves your Mac because it is never held long enough to.

Can I see, export or delete my stats?

Yes. Settings → Stats shows everything Kiiwi has counted. Export saves every day's counts as a JSON file, and Reset sets them back to zero (it keeps one copy beside the file, so a reset can be undone). Nothing about your stats ever leaves your Mac unless you post a share card yourself.

Will it slow my Mac down?

No. Idle CPU is 0%, because nothing runs between keystrokes. A keypress costs one buffer schedule against already-decoded audio. Memory sits around 58 MB because only the switch you're using is loaded.

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