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 nothing about what you type ever leaves the device — the only activity that syncs, and only if you join a league, 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 cites exactly six verified sources, each attributed and dated — and avoids the popular unverifiable ones (“shortcuts save N days a year,” “your mouse travels 17 miles,” Apple’s legendary “$50M keyboard-vs-mouse study,” “90% of users touch 10% of features”), which no one has soundly measured and published:

  • 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.
  • Half of the standard-menu group in a performance-paid lab study (7 of 14) never pressed a single hotkey, with shortcut labels visible on every menu row; feedback naming the shortcut after each click more than doubled hotkey use — Grossman, Dragicevic & Balakrishnan, CHI 2007.
  • 71% of the shortcuts studied were already known to Word users whose keystrokes were logged, yet shortcuts drove under half of their commands and time pressure didn’t change it — a hold-the-modifier shortcut overlay, meanwhile, raised shortcut use from 11.8% to 58% of commands — Tak, Westendorp & van Rooij, Interacting with Computers, 2013.
  • 352 million toolbar clicks in Word over 90 days of opt-in telemetry (1.3 billion sessions collected): the most-clicked button was Paste, even though the same data showed heavy Ctrl+V use — Jensen Harris, Microsoft Office UI blog, 2006.

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.