Keycap teaches touch typing on the Mac, and then makes you faster at it. It works out which keys and which pairs of keys you actually get wrong, and builds the next drill out of them. A key you have fixed stops being drilled. TWO TRACKS Learn: thirteen Levels, from the home row to mixed prose. Each opens with a hand-written note about which finger goes where, and has a gate to clear: accuracy on its own characters, and a speed to reach. Nothing in the teaching is generated. Every Level is written by hand. Practice: timed Runs of 15, 30, 60 or 120 seconds over common words, over every key, or over the keys you personally miss. Or name a subject, and Apple Intelligence writes a passage about it here on this Mac. Challenge: four fixed setups scored for Medals: Speed, Accuracy, Extreme and Long Form. The same configuration every time, so the numbers actually compare. A FIX IS BOUNDED WORK When Keycap finds a pair you keep missing, it offers a Fix: at most three pairs, at most five Runs, ending with the before-and-after figure for each one. Not encouragement: the measurement. Abandoning a Fix records nothing. Bailing out is not failing. NUMBERS YOU CAN TRUST Words per minute, raw wpm, accuracy and consistency are defined the way typing benchmarks define them, so a Keycap number means the same thing everywhere else. A personal best is recorded only on common words: a passage about the sea is not comparable to a passage about anything else, and the app says so rather than quietly counting it. Nothing is shown as zero when it has not been measured. An unmeasured thing reads as absent, because that is what it is. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-in. No analytics. No server. Keycap does not store what you typed: the database has nowhere to put it. It keeps the figures from a Run and a summary of which keys went wrong, and that is all. The prose you practise on is written by Apple Intelligence on this Mac, and the subject you name never leaves it. ALSO • Twenty-two mechanical key switch profiles. • A keyboard on screen with finger guidance, or hidden if you would rather • Per-key heatmap, a six-part skill profile, streaks and a share card • Keyboard-first throughout: every destination has a Command-number • ANSI (US) layout Seven days of the whole app, then one purchase. No subscription.
Education · iPhone, iPad · Free
