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Made a free macOS menu bar app that fixes typing in the wrong keyboard layout

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macOS menu-bar utility

FlicKey learns your input language for every app, every website, even each browser tab, then switches the instant you focus. It's the auto-switching macOS never quite got right. And if you ever slip, one shortcut fixes the gibberish instantly.

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01 - See it, try it

It follows you between apps - try it yourself.

FlicKey arms the right input language for each app - watch the menu-bar badge as it switches. Open the FlicKey app from the dock to fix some gibberish yourself.

Terminal

tal@mac ~/code/flickey % git commit -m "ship it"

[main 9f3c2a1] ship it

1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

tal@mac ~/code/flickey %

A playground to show the idea, not the actual app.

03 - Features

It just keeps the language right.

macOS has a per-app input setting. It forgets, lags, and resets. FlicKey is what it should have been.

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Per-app language memory

Remembers the right input language for every app and switches the moment you focus it. Terminal stays Latin, chat stays Hebrew.

Per-site memory

Your browser remembers the language for each website, so the right script is armed before you press a single key.

Fix wrong-layout text

Slipped anyway? Double-tap ⇧ and the gibberish becomes what you meant - any two layouts, any app.

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Menu-bar indicator

A live language badge sits in your menu bar, so you always know the active layout at a glance.

04 - How it works

Up and running in 30 seconds.

1

Download

Grab the 4.8 MB app and drag it to Applications. No account, no installer wizard.

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Grant Accessibility

Turn on one toggle in System Settings so FlicKey can read and rewrite the text you type.

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It just works

Type away. Double-tap ⇧ whenever you slip, and let auto-switching handle the rest.

05 - Privacy & security

Private by design.

It's a tiny local utility. Nothing about you ever leaves your Mac.

Stays on your Mac

It only stores tiny preferences - which layout you like per app, website, and chat. No documents, no messages, no keystrokes.

No account, no tracking

No sign-in, no analytics, no telemetry. It never reports what you do - there's no server to report to.

One network call

The only connection it makes is a version check to GitHub - and it sends nothing about you.

Permissions, explained

Two macOS permissions, each for one clear job. Tap a row to see exactly what it does - and doesn't.

06 - Pricing

Free. Forever.

100% free

Download it, use it, keep it. Every feature works for everyone - no account, no cost, no catch.

The "7-day trial"

Almost nothing. After a week, FlicKey may gently ask whether you'd like to chip in. It never stops working and nothing is taken away.

Support is optional

If FlicKey saves you time, you can support the project. Entirely optional - the app is fully yours either way. 💙

Never retype a sentence again.

Free, tiny, and native. Built for everyone who lives across two keyboards - or five.

Download for macOS