everything-shortcut
macOS menu bar app, in early development

Click anything on your Mac without touching the mouse.

Press ⇧⌘Space and every button, link, menu and Dock icon on your screen gets a small yellow label. Type the letters on a label and everything-shortcut clicks it for you.

There's no public download yet.

A pretend Mac desktop. Show hints puts a short label on everything you can click. Type a label, or press its button, to click that item.

Press ⇧⌘Space or .

How it works

  1. Press the shortcut.

    ⇧⌘Space works from any app. You can pick a different one in Settings.

  2. Find the label.

    Everything you can click gets one or two letters, starting with the menu bar.

  3. Type it.

    The moment you finish a label, that item is clicked. Backspace fixes a typo and Escape closes the labels.

Labels everywhere you look

Labels cover every app on screen, including the windows behind the one you're using.

Windows in the background

Click a button in a window behind the one you're working in. That window comes forward, just like a real click.

The menu bar

App menus and the icons on the right of the menu bar get labels too.

The Dock

Open or switch apps from the Dock without reaching for the trackpad.

Web pages

Links and buttons in Chrome and in apps built with Electron get labels, and links open with a real click.

Any keyboard layout

Labels type the same with Dvorak, or with Japanese input turned on.

Your shortcut, your letters

Pick another shortcut or another set of label letters in Settings. Changes apply right away.

Labels in about a quarter of a second

On the developer's Mac, a full scan found 72 to 91 clickable items in 230 to 250 milliseconds.

Safe to leave running

  • Easy to cancel

    Escape, the shortcut again, or any mouse click closes the labels. Your click still lands where you clicked.

  • Quiet around passwords

    Labels won't open while a password field is active, so letters meant for a label can't end up in it.

  • Stays on your Mac

    The app has no network code. It reads the screen through macOS Accessibility, on your Mac.

Questions

Keep your hands on the keyboard.

everything-shortcut is in early development. There's no public download yet.