Changelog

Site update — August 12, 2026 · Readable buttons and small print

• The buttons in the header say what they say. The Tip and Download pills were drawing their label at 55% opacity over a colored fill, which measured as low as 1.6:1 against it — well under the 4.5:1 the accessibility guidelines ask for. Their labels are now solid, and the fill behind them is set a shade deeper so the text genuinely clears that bar.
• The Subscribe and Support buttons too. Their labels were colored for one end of a two-color gradient and disappeared into the other end. Both now use a single fill that the label is legible on all the way across.
• The newsletter note, the “More apps” caption and the version line under the download button were all set too faint to read comfortably; each is now above the AA threshold.
• Keyboard shortcut chips are legible against their own background.
• The screenshot viewer no longer makes every visit quietly re-download this page as if it were an image — a wasted request on each load.
• No change to the app.

Site update — August 11, 2026 · Clearer search results

• The description under this site in Google is no longer cut off. It ran past the length Google shows and broke mid-word; it now reads as a complete sentence.
• Sharing a link to the privacy, terms or changelog page now shows a proper preview card instead of a bare URL.
• The sitemap now reports when each page actually changed, so search engines re-check pages that have been updated instead of assuming they are stale.
• No change to the app.

1.0.1 — August 11, 2026 · Thirteen languages

WinKeys now speaks the language your Mac does.

• Thirteen languages — German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Turkish and Simplified Chinese. WinKeys follows whatever you have macOS set to; there is nothing to choose.
• Fixed several settings explanations that were assembled from pieces at build time. That made them impossible to translate — they would have stayed English in every language.

1.0.0 — August 11, 2026 · Initial public release

First release. Windows keyboard shortcuts on macOS — an event tap, not a driver, so there is nothing to approve at boot and quitting it puts you straight back to stock.

• Ctrl → Cmd, everywhere — Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+S, Ctrl+T and the rest do what they do on Windows.
• Ctrl+Y redoes, mapped onto macOS's Cmd+Shift+Z.
• Word navigation — Ctrl+← and Ctrl+→ jump a word; Ctrl+Backspace and Ctrl+Delete remove one.
• Home and End go to start / end of line. Add Ctrl for start / end of document.
• Alt+Tab switches apps — hold Alt to keep cycling, add Shift to go backwards. Alt+F4 closes the front window, F2 renames in Finder, Ctrl+Shift+Esc opens Activity Monitor.
• Windows scroll direction — separate switches for the mouse wheel and the trackpad, so a wheel can behave like Windows while the trackpad still scrolls like a phone. Both off by default.
• A key tester that doesn't lie — press any shortcut in Settings and see exactly what the app underneath would receive and which rule was responsible. Keys pressed in WinKeys' own windows are never remapped, so it shows what you typed rather than what WinKeys already made of it. When nothing happens it says why.
• Per-app exclusions — Terminal, iTerm2, Ghostty, Alacritty, kitty, WezTerm, Warp and Emacs ship excluded so Ctrl+C still interrupts. Leave <App> Alone in the menu bar stops remapping in whatever you are using right now.
• Menu bar only, no Dock icon. Every rule is individually switchable, and there is a master switch.
• Full keyboard control, VoiceOver labels, and a palette checked against WCAG 2.1 AA in light, dark and both Increase Contrast variants.
• Updates itself — WinKeys checks for a new version once a week and can install it for you, or you can ask any time from Check for Updates… in the menu bar. Every update is signed, and one that isn't is refused.
• Signed and notarized by Apple — macOS 13+, Apple Silicon & Intel, one universal build.
• Free for personal use forever, including updates; optional one-time $5-per-device commercial license for commercial use.

Known trade-off for 1.0: the blanket Ctrl → Cmd rule costs you macOS's emacs bindings — Ctrl+A, Ctrl+E, Ctrl+K — everywhere WinKeys is active. That is the deal Windows muscle memory asks for. Exclude an app to get them back there.