Features

Keyboard Maestro is a productivity enhancer with four main functions, allowing you to record and design your own macro shortcuts and activate them at any time, navigate through running applications with Application Switcher and open windows with Window Switcher, work with an unlimited number of clipboards using Clipboard Switcher and with clipboard history using Clipboard History Switcher.

Keyboard Maestro organizes your macros into Macro Groups. Think of them as folders of macros. Each Macro Group controls when the macros it contains are active. A Macro is made of two parts: a set of Triggers you choose to determine when the macro is executed and a list of Actions that define what the macro does when it is executed.

Macro Groups

Create Macro Groups, which contain Macros and control when they are active.
Macro Groups can be restricted to or excluded from specific applications.
Macro Groups can be activated or deactivated with hot keys, or via the status menu or palette.
Macro Groups can display a palette of contained macros.
Macro Groups can be enabled or disabled.

Triggers

Macros can be triggered by one or more Macro Triggers using any number of the following:
- Hot Key - press, hold or release a key.
- Typed String - type a string of keys.
- Applications - on launch, quit, activate, deactivate, or periodically while an application is running or active.
- System Wake - when the system wakes from sleep.
- Login - when you log in to your Mac.
- Time - at a particular time of day.
- While Logged In - periodically while logged in.
- Macro Palette - with a click on a context sensitive Macro Palette.
- Status Menu - by selecting from a global system status menu.
- Public Web - over the Internet, explicitly to the public, or via authenticated log in.
- Device Key - when any HID device key is pressed, held down or released.
- MIDI Note - when a MIDI note is pressed or released.
- iPhone or iPod touch - from your iPhone or iPod touch.
- By Script - from an AppleScript or a shell script.

Actions

You can create Macro Actions manually or by recording them.
Macros can execute a sequence of one or more Macro Actions including:
- Application Control
- - Switch to Last, Next or a specific application.
  - Bring the current application's windows to the front.
  - Quit All, Other, the current or a specific application.
  - Hide All, Other, the current or a specific application.
  - Show All or a specific application.
- Interface Control
- - Manipulate a window - resize, move, center, close, zoom, minimize, bring to front.
  - Move or click the mouse with modifiers.
  - Select a specific menu item.
  - Press a button with a specific name.
  - Simulate a keystroke.
  - Simulate moving the scroll wheel.
- Control the System
- - Sleep, Restart, Shut Down, Fast User Switch or Log Out.
  - Activate screen saver.
  - Open/close the CD tray.
  - Increase, decrease, set or mute/unmute the system volume.
  - Increase or decrease the brightness.
- Control iTunes
- - Play a specific a specific song, a random song or a specific Playlist.
  - Play, pause or stop.
  - Rewind or fast forward.
  - Go to the next or previous track.
  - Raise, lower or set the volume to a specific level
  - Set the rating of the current song
- Control QuickTime Player
- - Play or pause the current movie.
  - Step backward or forward.
  - Increase, decrease or set the volume.
- Send a MIDI Note or Control Change.
- Open a file, folder, URL, the current Finder selection or System Preferences pane.
- Execute an AppleScript or shell script and optionally display or store the results.
- Execute an Automator workflow.
- Search the Web.
- Insert or Display Text by typing, pasting or with built-in token expansion (e.g., the current time).
- Control the Clipboard
- - Simulate Cut, Copy or Paste.
  - Copy, Cut or Paste to/from a permanent Named Clipboard.
  - Set the system clipboard to specific tokenized text, a past copy of the clipboard, or a Named Clipboard.
  - Save the system clipboard to a permanent Named Clipboard.
  - Delete a past clipboard entry from the clipboard history.
  - Filter the contents of the current clipboard.
  - Apply a BBEdit Text Factory to the current clipboard.
  - Search and Replace the current clipboard.
- Use Variables
- - Set a variable to specific tokenized text.
  - Set a variable to a calculation.
  - Search and Replace a variable.
  - Use a variable to set the mouse location, adjust window location or size, change the frontmost window or application by name, or set the system volume.
  - Filter variables in a variety of ways.
  - Prompt for variable values (with text, passwords, popup menus and checkboxes).
- Activate the Application Launcher or the Application, Window, Clipboard or Clipboard History switchers.
- Notifications
- - Via Growl.
  - By displaying text.
  - By speaking text, playing a sound or beeping.
  - With an alert.
- Control the Flow and Behavior of a Macro
- - Pause for a number of seconds (possibly calculated).
  - Pause Until conditions are met.
  - Execute a list of actions until conditions are met.
  - While conditions are met, execute a list of actions.
  - Repeat a list of actions N (may be a calculation) times.
  - If conditions are met, execute a list of actions, otherwise execute another list.
  - Execute another macro (like a subroutine).
  - Cancel All Macros or Cancel This Macro.
- Record a quick macro without launching Keyboard Maestro.
- Set (or toggle) whether a Macro Group or Macro is enabled.
- Show or Hide the Global Macro Palette.
- Comment (no action, just for helping you document a macro sequence).

Application Launcher

Display a Cover Flow view of available applications for quick selection.
Type ahead selection including abbreviations (eg "a p" for Adobe Photoshop).

Application and Window Switcher

Optionally replace the system Command-Tab application switcher.
Customize the switcher to match the look you want.
Switch to any application or window with a keystroke.
Switch to an application and hide all others.
Easily select the exact application or window you want.
Launch, hide, quit or force quit any application
Close or minimize any window.
Quit (or force quit) and relaunch applications.
Get Info or reveal applications.
Choose the application ordering you want: alphabetically, by last use, or by launch order.
Sort windows alphabetically or by window depth order.
Optionally hide other applications.
Optionally always hide other applications.

Clipboard Switcher

An unlimited number of Named Clipboards
Copy, Cut or Paste to/from a Named Clipboards using a single keystroke.
Clipboards are saved permanently.

Clipboard History Switcher

Never lose your clipboard again.
Browse your past clipboards and paste any previous clipboard item.
Send clipboard entries to other Macs.
Clipboards display rich text and images.
Use Quick Look to view clipboard entries.
Set clipboard entries as favorites so they are always available in your clipboard history.
Clipboard History is optionally saved across logins and restarts.

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