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Keyboard Maestro

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.

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Keyboard Maestro
DeveloperStairways Software
Stable release
11.0.41 / May 20, 2025 (2025-05-20)
Operating systemmacOS
TypeAutomation utility
Websitewww.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.23

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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  1. Stairways Software (20 May 2025). "Stairways Software releases Keyboard Maestro 11.0.4". Archived from the original on 2025-06-19. Retrieved 2025-06-19.
  2. Breen, Christopher. "Keyboard Maestro: 8 unexpected uses for the old-school Mac-hacking tool". Macworld. IDG. Archived from the original on 7 August 2017. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  3. Stairways Software Pty Ltd. "Keyboard Maestro overview". Stairways Software Pty Ltd. Archived from the original on 2025-07-17. Retrieved 2025-07-17.
  4. Wuerthele, Mike; Gallagher, William (10 December 2017). "Hands On: Keyboard Maestro 8.0.4 speeds up working on your Mac". appleinsider. Archived from the original on 30 August 2018. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  5. Stairways Software Pty Ltd. "Keyboard Maestro features". Stairways Software Pty Ltd. Archived from the original on 2025-08-05. Retrieved 2025-08-05.
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