Keycito

Press kit

For writers and reviewers

Partial kit. Keycito is pre-launch. The name and wordmark are final; the press build, product film, and founder bio land at 1.0. Everything below is accurate and quotable today.

The one-paragraph story

Keycito is a native menu-bar app for macOS that teaches keyboard shortcuts from your real work instead of flashcards. It reads the menus of the apps you use to discover which shortcuts exist, notices when you click a menu item that had a shortcut you skipped, and turns those misses into a few new shortcuts a week — reinforced with streaks and spaced repetition until they’re muscle memory. Its defining constraint is privacy: keystroke matching happens in memory on the Mac, what’s stored locally is only counts, and the sole thing that can ever sync is a five-number daily score whose full payload is printed on the homepage and published as a tested schema.

Boilerplate (short)

Keycito is a menu-bar shortcut coach for macOS. It notices which shortcuts you use and which you miss, then teaches you a few new ones each week — privately, on your Mac. Nothing you type ever leaves the device.

The verified numbers (and only these)

We hold marketing to the same standard reviewers do, so the site uses exactly three statistics, each attributed and dated — and avoids the popular unverifiable ones (“shortcuts save N days a year,” “your mouse travels 17 miles”), which no one has soundly measured:

  • 90% of 2,000+ US internet users surveyed didn’t know Ctrl+F / ⌘F finds a word on a page — Dan Russell, Google, 2011, reported via The Atlantic.
  • 81% of 69,000 Firefox users never pressed Ctrl+F even once in a week — measured telemetry, not a survey — Mozilla Test Pilot, 2011.
  • 251 experienced Microsoft Word users studied: most still clicked toolbars for commands they used constantly — Lane, Napier, Peres & Sándor, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 2005.

The privacy payload (quotable, verbatim)

If a user joins a league, this is the entire daily upload — plus a nonce and an Ed25519 signature. It is published as a schema and every release is tested against it:

Fast facts

  • Native Swift menu-bar app; macOS 14+ (Apple silicon and Intel)
  • Distributed outside the Mac App Store (the sandbox blocks menu reading); Developer ID signed and notarized
  • Works fully offline, no account required; leagues are opt-in
  • Free during beta; core features stay free after launch
  • The keystroke capture layer is planned to be open source

Coming at 1.0

  • Product film
  • Press build and review license
  • Founder photo and bio

Contact

Press inquiries, screenshots, and the wordmark in vector form: jkdev222@gmail.com. Real replies, usually within a day.