Tenuo
Customize your Mac keyboard with layers and shortcuts
Details
- External ID
- 1247791
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Tenuo
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Open Source, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Build custom keyboard layers in a visual editor for macOS. Map keys to shortcuts, launch apps, and tailor mappings to the app you’re using. Tenuo includes free keyboard remapping and optional Pro, with the entire codebase available under MIT.
Enrichment
- Theme
- custom keyboards and input controllers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- customizable keyboard layers for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Designing a visual UI for keybindings is easy, but low-level macOS system-wide keyboard event interception, remapping, and layer state management requires deep C/Objective-C/Swift knowledge of IOKit, CGEventTap, or DriverKit.
What it would actually take: The app requires Swift/AppKit for the UI and a low-level background daemon using CoreGraphics `CGEventTap` or a custom DriverKit/IOKit dext kernel-level extension to intercept raw hardware keycodes before the OS dispatches them. The difficult parts include handling secure input mode (passwords), avoiding input lag or dropped keystrokes, managing complex modifier layering states, and passing Apple's strict accessibility/system extension permissions.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 190 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #63 of 191 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 300 days after the earliest competitor.
- CupertinoClicks · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- show-keystrokes · github · 2026-09-21 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Loft gives thumb-keys and split-layout on a standard laptop or keyboard · hn · 2026-06-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Lumi · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Keysake · ph · 2026-09-18 · 253 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- NyaIcon · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- US keyboards don't have enough keys, so I switched to Japanese · hn · 2026-04-15 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Halo · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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