Keyboard Maestro

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Keyboard Maestro
Developer(s) Stairways Software
Stable release
10.0 [1] / November 2, 2021;1 day ago (2021-11-02)
Operating system macOS
Type Automation utility
Website www.keyboardmaestro.com

Keyboard Maestro is a closed-source commercial macOS-based application that allows automation of routine functions, such as navigating running applications, opening documents, typing text, expanding abbreviations, and controlling web applications, by means of a visual programming language with support for variables, styled clipboards, functions and text tokens, if-then-else logic, loops and other functions. [2] [3]

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Features include recording and designing macros, [4] clipboard history, saved clipboards, and navigation through applications and windows. Macros are organised into groups which can be limited to operate within certain applications. [5]

Keyboard Maestro was created and first released in 2002 by Michael Kamprath and purchased by Stairways Software in 2004, and has been in continuous development since then.

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References

  1. Stairways Software (2 November 2021). "Stairways Software releases Keyboard Maestro 10.0". Archived from the original on 2021-11-02. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
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