Common Keys

Typed on the wrong keyboard? Already fixed.

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Free forever · Open source · Nothing leaves your Mac · macOS 14.4 or later · Every keyboard macOS has

Fixed as you type.

A word finished on the wrong layout is retyped on the right one, and the keyboard switches. ⌘Z right away undoes it, and that word is left alone.

Every keyboard.

All 251 layouts in macOS, across 35 scripts, read with the system’s own key tables. Korean syllables and Vietnamese tones compose both ways.

Each app, its own layout.

Each app comes back on the layout you last used there, or the one you usually write in. A switch in one never leaks into another.

Get started.

  1. Download CommonKeys.zip, unzip it, and move Common Keys to Applications.
  2. Open it The first time, macOS says it can't verify the developer: the build is signed but not notarized. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway next to Common Keys.
  3. Allow Accessibility Common Keys asks for it to see what you type and fix it. Flip the switch in System Settings.
  4. Set it up Type a word on the wrong keyboard and press space. It’s fixed, and the layout switches.

Or, from a terminal, with no Open Anyway step: brew install --cask oddurs/common-tools/common-keys or curl -fsSL https://oddurs.github.io/common-tools/install.sh | sh -s -- keys. Every step, with checksums, is in the docs.

More Common Tools.

Common Command Press ⌥Space, type a few letters, press Return: apps, System Settings panes, files, sums, and web searches in one quiet panel. Common Shot Press ⇧⌘2, drag over what you want, and paste it: into a chat, a terminal, a pull request, or a document. Common Stats CPU, GPU, memory, network, disk, storage, and battery in the menu bar, with a real menu of graphs under it. Common Bar Moves the menu bar icons you rarely use into folders, clear of the notch, and opens any one of them right where its folder is. Common Color Press ⌃⇧⌘C, click any pixel, and the color is on the clipboard as hex, CSS, SwiftUI, or AppKit, converted correctly from the display’s color space. Common Battery The level, the time left, what the battery is doing, and alerts when it runs low or reaches your charge level. Common Glyph A character, a sticker, an emoji, an animated GIF, or a word: as many as you like, each its own menu bar item.