Key Press Visualizer

When you show someone how to do something on a PC, the shortcuts are the part they miss. Key Press Visualizer puts every key you press on screen, as a row of keycaps, so everyone watching sees exactly what you did.

Record a tutorial, stream a game, teach a class or give a presentation. Press Ctrl + Shift + S and it appears at the bottom of the screen, then fades away. Modifiers always read in the same order, Ctrl, Alt, Shift, Win, so a shortcut looks the way people write it. Press the same key again and a counter shows how many times.

Choose Shortcuts only and the display shows combinations like Ctrl + C, Alt + Tab and Shift + Tab, and nothing else. Plain typing never appears, so neither do your passwords.

Turn on mouse clicks to show left, right, middle, back and forward clicks, joined to any key you hold, like Ctrl + Left click. Turn on the mouse wheel to show each scroll.

Pick a preset. Standard sits at the bottom center. Screencast makes the keys bigger for a recording. Streaming keeps them small in the bottom left, out of the way of your game. Presentation doubles the size and keeps each press up longer, for the back of the room.

Or set it yourself: any corner, the top or bottom center, or the middle of the screen; a size from half to double; a backdrop from see-through to solid; and how long a press stays on screen, from half a second to five. It shows on every monitor and keeps clear of the taskbar.

The app waits in the tray. Click the screen in the app, or the tray icon, to turn the display on or off, and it can start with Windows. Light and dark themes, or match Windows.

Everything happens on this PC. Nothing you type is saved or sent anywhere, and it works with no connection. Windows keeps the sign-in and admin prompt screens private from every app, so presses made there are not shown.