# Keyboard Maestro

> Macro-based automation for launching apps, typing text, arranging windows and filling web forms

Source: https://optioncmd.com/keyboard-maestro
Website: https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/?utm_source=optioncmd
Pricing: One-time purchase
Categories: [Launchers & automation](https://optioncmd.com/categories/launchers.md)
Listed: 2026-10-27
Updated: 2026-10-27

Keyboard Maestro is an automation app for macOS that runs macros from hotkeys, schedules and other triggers. If you can do a task by hand on your Mac, it can very likely do it for you.

**Key features:**

- Combine hundreds of built-in actions, including conditions, loops and flow control, into macros.
- Launch apps, open documents, arrange windows and quit other apps automatically.
- Expand text snippets, transform text, OCR images and use a multi-entry clipboard history.
- Fill in web forms, open frequently read pages and download reports.
- Run macros on a schedule, such as setting up your Mac at 8:00 each morning.
- Prompt for details like name, time and location and combine them into a single snippet.

Keyboard Maestro 11 requires macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later and runs natively on Apple silicon. It's a one-time purchase of US$36 (upgrades from earlier versions cost US$25), with a free trial available.

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