90%
of 2,000+ US internet users surveyed by a Google researcher didn’t know Ctrl+F / ⌘F finds a word on a page.
Dan Russell, Google, 2011 — via The Atlantic
A menu-bar coach for macOS
You probably know five shortcuts.
Your Mac knows thousands.
Keycito sits in your menu bar and quietly notices which shortcuts you use — and which ones you miss. Then it teaches you a few new ones each week and makes them stick. Like Duolingo, but for the way you already work.
macOS 14+ · Free during beta · Nothing you type ever leaves your Mac
The research
This isn’t a you problem. It’s everyone.
81%
of 69,000 Firefox users never pressed Ctrl+F even once in a week. Not a survey — actual telemetry.
Mozilla Test Pilot, 2011
251
experienced Microsoft Word users studied: most still clicked toolbars for commands they used constantly — even knowing shortcuts were faster.
Lane, Napier, Peres & Sándor, Int’l Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 2005
50%
of people using standard menus in a lab study — paid to finish fast — never pressed a single hotkey. The shortcut was printed on every menu row.
Grossman, Dragicevic & Balakrishnan, CHI 2007
71%
of the shortcuts studied were already known by Word users whose keystrokes were logged — yet shortcuts drove less than half of their commands. Racing a visible timer changed nothing.
Tak, Westendorp & van Rooij, Interacting with Computers, 2013
352M
toolbar clicks in Word, logged by Microsoft in just 90 days of opt-in telemetry. The most-clicked button of all: Paste — even though the same data showed huge numbers pasting with Ctrl+V.
Jensen Harris, Microsoft Office telemetry, 2006
The hopeful part: in Mozilla’s data, people who used Ctrl+F used about twice as many other shortcuts overall. Shortcut habits compound — you just need the first few to stick.
Why nothing stuck before
You’ve tried the cheat sheet. It’s still a PDF somewhere.
Shortcut posters, flashcard apps, cheat-sheet overlays — they all fail the same way: they’re homework. They ask you to stop working and study, then hope you remember at the exact moment it counts.
Keycito flips it. It doesn’t interrupt your work — it learns from it. It reads the menus of the apps you actually use, sees which shortcuts you already know, and — the magic part — notices every time you click a menu item that had a shortcut you didn’t use. That miss becomes your next lesson. A few new shortcuts a week, chosen from your real behavior, reinforced with streaks and spaced repetition until they’re muscle memory.
And the moment-of-use approach is the one thing the research says actually works: feedback naming the shortcut right after a menu click more than doubled hotkey use in a CHI lab study, and a hold-the-modifier overlay — the same idea as Keycito’s ⌘-hold panel — took shortcut use from 11.8% to 58% of commands. Grossman, Dragicevic & Balakrishnan, CHI 2007 · Tak, Westendorp & van Rooij, 2013
You don’t study shortcuts. You just work — and the shortcuts show up.
How it works
Three quiet steps, all on your Mac
01
It notices
Keycito reads the menus of the apps you use to learn which shortcuts exist, then notices the moment you click a menu item that had one. A discreet toast, and it’s gone.
02
It teaches
Each week you get a few new shortcuts — chosen from your actual misses, in the apps you actually use. Not a top-ten listicle. Yours.
03
It sticks
Streaks and spaced repetition turn each shortcut into muscle memory. Use one for real and you feel a quiet tick of progress — no confetti, no interruptions.
Weekly leagues
Some weeks you just want to win.
Opt in and Keycito drops you into a small weekly league of 30. Every shortcut you actually use nudges your score. Climb, get promoted, and start Monday one tier higher.
- Top 7 promote, bottom 5 demote. A fresh 30 every Monday, tuned so you’re always near the bubble.
- Rank is a badge, nothing more. It’s cosmetic — a botted #1 gets you exactly zero real advantage.
- Nothing about what you type leaves your Mac. Join a league and your daily score syncs — plus the account and device records any synced account needs. No keys, no app names, no titles. Skip leagues and nothing syncs at all.
Bronze league · W28 Closes in 2 days
+ 22 more players · you’re in the promotion zone
Your invite link
keycito.com/i/quietfox
3 of 5 friends joined your league
1 friend Aurora theme
3 friends Signal theme + app icon
5 friends Founder theme + exclusive icon
Invite friends
Bring your people. Climb together.
Pick a username once — it’s your name on the leaderboard and your invite link. Share it, and friends who join land in your league, so you’re racing people you actually know.
Every friend who sticks around unlocks a cosmetic reward: three referral-exclusive themes and two alternate app icons, at 1, 3, and 5 friends. Earned only — never for sale, and they never touch the leaderboard.
What’s inside
Small app. Sharp edges considered.
Learns from your real work
No lessons to schedule, no decks to review. Keycito discovers the shortcuts of the apps you already use by reading their menus, and builds your curriculum from your own clicks.
The missed click becomes the lesson
Click a menu item that had a shortcut, get a two-second toast. That miss is exactly what you practice next.
Streaks with forgiveness
Streak freezes are free for everyone, applied automatically, and a weekend shield is on by default. Never for sale.
Cosmetic rewards, earned only
Themes and app icons come from streaks and invites — never a store. Nothing you can buy touches the leaderboard.
Works fully offline
No account required. Everything — tracking, teaching, streaks — runs and stays on your Mac.
Your own numbers, not internet lore
You may have heard your mouse travels “17 miles a year.” Nobody has actually measured that — so we won’t claim it. Instead, a built-in mouse odometer is planned: your real mileage, measured on your Mac, yours to share.
Privacy, first-class
Your keystrokes never leave your Mac. Not encrypted. Not anonymized. Never.
Keycito listens for one thing: whether a keystroke matches a known shortcut in the app you’re using. Matching happens in memory, on your Mac. What gets stored is a count — “⌘D in Finder, 3 times today” — in a local database you can open yourself.
If you join a league, the only thing about your activity that syncs is a daily score. (Your account and device records sync too — the privacy policy itemizes every field.) Here is, literally, the entire score payload:
{ "day": "2026-07-08", "score_components": { "usage": 300, "diversity": 78, "learning": 40, "mastery": 0, "streak": 40 }, "client_version": "1.2.0" }
Plus a nonce and an Ed25519 signature. No key logs, no window titles, no app names, no document names — and the payload itself carries only the day (the server does record when you submit it, for abuse prevention; see the privacy policy).
No screenshots. No telemetry trackers. Keycito works fully offline if you never make an account. Read the full privacy draft →
Early access
Be first in line
Private beta invites go out in small waves. Leave your email and we’ll save your spot.
Free during beta. One email when your invite is ready, a short build update every few weeks. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.
You’re in. Watch your inbox —
and reply to the welcome email with the three apps you live in. It
literally shapes what we build.
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