Keyboard Maestro

Keyboard Maestro is your hot-key solution that allows you to perform a multitude of tasks simply by pressing a keystroke! It also incorporates the wildly popular MacOS Classic utility Program Switcher, which allows you to launch, switch, and quit applications with a simple keystroke.

Features:

• Macro
• Program and window switcher
• Clipboard switcher
• Clipboard history switcher

Note: Now requires OS X 10.10.3 or later.

Note: Version 7.0 is a paid upgrade of $18 from previous versions. You can check your license status here.

Editor Improvements

• Added Smart Groups.
• Added Insert Action by Name.
• Added autocomplete of text tokens, functions, variables and search tokens.
• Added Insert Action menu to Edit menu.
• Added disclosure folding for sub-action lists.
• Added action menu and contextual menu to macro actions.
• Added option to rename actions.
• Added color option to actions.
• Added note option to actions.
• Added control over Abort on Failure of actions.
• Added control over Notification on Failure of actions.
• Added Sort by Date Created; Use Count; Time Saved.
• Added Paste Above to action/contextual menu.
• Added Help link to action/contextual menu.
• Added Help link when option-selecting triggers/actions/functions/tokens/collections/conditions.
• Added status line below Macro Groups and Macro columns.
• Added Get/Go buttons to Mouse Click action.
• Added Macro Inspector window.
• Added Mouse Display window.
• Added Share button to main editor window.
• Share macros or actions directly to the forum.
• Added Import/Export of sets of actions.
• Changed search in editor to support words and quoted phrases.
• Changed search to support group:, app:, universal:, all:, enabled:.
• Highlight found triggers and actions in editor.
• Changed error display to only orange if the issue is an invalid variable value.
• Used/Backward/Forward/History macro history buttons.
• Improved display of toggle buttons (eg Modifiers/Days of the Week).
• Honor user's locale setting for First Day of the Week.
• Require Command-Delete to delete Macros Groups and Macro Groups.
• Added Deselect All in the Edit menu.
• Added Enter Action and Parent Action in the Edit menu.
• Single click on a selected item deselects other items.
• Sort the trigger list, conditions list and collection list.
• Limited the size of the Undo stack in the editor.
• Changed Insert Token and Function menus to be hierarchical.
• Add an "All Macros" entry in the macro selector popup macro.
• If you delete a macro, macro group or action, the following item is selected.

Themed Palette Styles

• Lots of different color styles.
• Control style, size, columns, opacity.
• Control whether the icon, text or trigger is shown.
• Control whether the palette shrinks to an icon when not in use.

Macro Additions

• Added Macro Groups available in Focussed Window Macro Group targeting.
• Added Macro Groups available when applications are or are not running.
• Added Focussed Window Changed Trigger.
• Added Folder Changed Trigger.
• Added Clipboard Changed Trigger.
• Added Sleep Trigger.
• Added support for double tap, triple tap, etc, Hot Key triggers.
• Added support for double tap, triple tap, etc, Device Key triggers.
• Added Custom HTML Prompt action.
• Added Switch/Case Action.
• Added Group Action.
• Added Execute Javascript for Automation (JXA) action.
• Added Execute Swift Script action.
• Added Simulate Hardware Key action.
• Added Type Modifier Key action.
• Added Set Action Delay action to control various speeds.
• Added Mark Macro action to mark/unmark status menu and palette icons.
• Added option to Press and Hold/Repeat keys, modifiers or hardware keys.
• Added option to Press and Hold mouse buttons.
• Added Swift and Javascript for Automation to Script Condition.
• Added Found Image on Screen collection to For Each action.
• Added explicit Area option to Screen Capture action.
• Added Screen Area limits for Found Image searches.
• Added Any Window Title condition.
• Added Set Keyboard Layout action.
• Added Conceal/Reveal All Palettes actions.
• Added Cut/Copy/Paste actions. CutCopy wait for the clipboard to change.
• Added Content Type/Kind, and Where From attributes to Get File Attribute.
• Added Added Date, Downloaded Date, Last Used Date attributes to Get File Attribute.
• Added Finder Comment to Get/Set File Attribute.
• Added Invisible to Get/Set File Attribute.
• Added Open 1Password Bookmark action.
• Added SECUREINPUT() function.
• Added CONCEALEDPALETTES() function.
• Added MENUBARHEIGHT() function.
• Added SCREENVISIBLE() function.
• Added %ScreenVisible% text token.
• Added %MacroNameForUUID%UUID% text token.
• Added Macro/Macro Group enabled/disabled/active/inactive condition.
• Added specific area option to Capture Screen Image action.
• Added Always Nominal Resolution option to Capture Screen Image action.
• Added option to exclude errors (STDERR) from script output.
• Added option to mouse action to allow drag destination to be absolute.
• Added filter to quote for AppleScript, Shell Script, JavaScript and Swift.
• Added filter to Percent Decode URLs.
• Added filter to get the value of a Named Variable or Named Clipboard.
• Added "with parameter" option for Execute Macro action.
• Allow Text Tokens in variable name of Set Variable to actions.
• Allow Text Tokens in Select Menu Item.
• Allow Text Tokens and menu paths (Edit->Copy) in Menu Condition.

Engine Additions

• Added optional Paste menu to Status Menu (with Paste Plain (shift) and Set-only (option)).
• Added kmtrigger: URL Scheme trigger (with parameter).
• Expand default clipboard history to 200 items.
• Added some clipboard flavor exclusions that cause problems in Word 2011 reading EBMS flavors.
• Added some clipboard flavor exclusions that cause problems in Word 2016 reading OLE LINK flavors.
• Added .width and .height in variables with only two entries (eg "123,456").
• Added .fuzz option to calculations (specifically for the Found Image collection).
• Restrict environment variable size of variables to 100k.
• Variables whose names start with "ENV " override regular environment variables (eg "ENV PATH").
• Added "with parameter" option for AppleScript "do script" triggered macros.
• Added parameter option for Web Server triggered macros.
• Palette and Status Menu triggered macros report the modifiers in the TriggerValue token.
• Default recorded mouse clicks to not restoring the mouse location.
• Added an implicit semaphore at the start of a quick recorded macro.
• Added option for Conflict Palette to appear under the mouse.
• Added option for Macro Group palettes to appear under the mouse.
• Added option to Application Switcher to allow switching only one window.
• Added Display Large option to execute and display text actions.
• Added AppleEvent to retrieve all the macro groups/macros even the inactive ones.
• Updated Trigger Macro By Name window.
• Updated Web Search window.

Editor Minor Changes

• Allow up to 9999 Seconds/Minutes/Hours in Periodic Trigger.
• Added link to Keyboard Maestro Wiki in the Help menu.
• Added link to Regular Expression Unicode Properties reference in the Help menu.
• Search Variable/Clipboard results show if the captured data includes more text than displayed.
• Added information to empty web browser action insertion menus.
• Wireless Network trigger can now fill in wifi text field.
• Added Insert Text by Typing variant to action selector.
• Added Click at Found Image variant to action selector.
• Preserve leading spaces in non-edit script display.
• Better preserving of selection when compiling AppleScripts.
• Changing Write File format while holding the option key disables changing the extension.
• Added a cache of rich text for compiled scripts to avoid needing to recompile them.
• Updated Or by Script to include JavaScript and Swift, as well as optional parameters.

Minor Changes

• Fixed system rewriting h to H in ICUDateTime formats.
• Fix Yosemite NSSpeechSynthesizer bug that stops Speak Text working properly.
• Removed defunct Fix Finder Selection Bug fixed in Yosemite.
• Removed offline Help.
• Added SequentialConflictPalette hidden preference.
• Dropped the recording manual pause time from 1.0 down to 0.25 seconds.
• Increased the limit on Typed String triggers to 100 characters.
• Added hidden preference to stop mouse clicks from zapping the typed string buffer.
• When referencing applications or system preferences, references are stored relative to the home directory if appropriate.
• The actions list becomes focussed when it is closed and contained the focus.
• Added DetailDisplayExtraStyle hidden preference.
• Added ReportUpdatesWhenEditorActivates hidden preference.
• Cut/Copy to Named Clipboard action waits until the clipboard changes.
• Use Notification Center instead of Growl for most notifications.
• Added hidden preferences to control Notification Center displays.
• Limit clipboard flavor sizes to 10MB (with hidden preference).
• Play various sounds as System Sounds so they honour the "Play sound effects" preference.
• Added accessibility support to Application and Window Switchers.
• Changed Conflict Palette to prefer alphabetical hot keys including digits over index hot keys.
• Changed MOD/AND/OR/etc to take precedence over variable names so Variable MOD Variable works.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed spelling of height in Get Image Size action.
• Fixed a possible race condition with "one action" macro palettes.
• Fixed a case where the "Must be unique" checkbox could be difficult to click.
• Restrict split view resizing to clicks that are near the divider.
• Corrected TRIGGERTIME() to be relative to 1970 epoch.
• Support lowercase pi character in calculations.
• Issues with shifted characters in emulators/remote desktops might be resolved.
• Handle surrogate pairs in non-edit/HTML displays.
• Fixed Macro Group Disabled/Enabled display toggle when many toggles happen quickly.
• Fixed a potential crash when looking for buttons in applications with poor accessibility support.
• Fixed an issue where the Execute Macro action could refuse to set the macro.
• Fixed flashing focus ring for text views.
• Fixed a possible crash when setting a hot key.
• Fixed %Screen%Front%, %Screen%Back%, %Screen%Back2%, %Screen%Mouse%.