FlicKey
Open source keyboard layout fixer for multilingual Macs
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FlicKey remembers the keyboard layout for each Mac app, website, browser tab and individual chat in Slack, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, Discord and Telegram. If you type with the wrong layout, it can fix the text automatically or convert it when you double tap Shift. The source is public because keyboard permissions are sensitive, and processing stays local with no account, analytics or telemetry. Try it free for 30 days, then pay what you want once from $2.99. No subscription.
PH · launched Sep 16, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Productivity
- Open Source
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
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More like this: all 448 launches in macos system utilities →
Could you build this?
No Tracking active contexts across individual browser tabs and chat windows while intercepting and altering keystrokes requires deep, low-level macOS accessibility and event-tap programming.
What it would actually take: The app must be written in Swift/Objective-C using macOS CoreGraphics Event Taps (`CGEventTapCreate`) to intercept system-wide keystrokes and the Accessibility API (`AXUIElement`) to introspect the active window and sub-element hierarchy. The primary challenge is inspecting deep DOM or Electron-based UI trees (like Slack, Teams, and browser tabs) without introducing input lag or triggering macOS security protections. This demands specialized knowledge of macOS internal system APIs and accessibility subsystems.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 127 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #57 of 128 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 187 days after the earliest competitor.
- Typoflip · ph · 2026-10-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Rekey · ph · 2026-11-02 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- TypeCorrect · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- shiftswitch · github · 2026-09-28 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- LayoutFixer · github · 2026-10-26 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Klavko · github · 2026-10-16 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Fluo · ph · 2026-11-12 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Swaytype · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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