CNET Editors' review
Keyboard shortcuts don't just save you time, they're also good for you. Using shortcuts is one of the easiest ways to wean yourself from your mouse and cut down on repetitive strain injuries in your hands and wrists. So any app like KeyCue that can help you learn new shortcuts and remember old ones is worth a look.
KeyCue is a very simple app; you just hold down the command key (or any key combination you choose), and KeyCue instantly displays a clear, clickable menu of all the shortcuts currently available in the application you're using.
KeyCue comes with many variations and preferences (everything from different menu themes to the ability to change the pop-up menu time delay), but the instant shortcut menu is its core functionality. If you also use the macro-program Keyboard Maestro, KeyCue is even more useful, as it will display the shortcuts for all your predefined macros as well. The only major strike against KeyCue is its price, which might be too high for some users given the app's narrow functionality.
Publisher's Description
From Ergonis software:
Menu shortcuts are supposed to provide quick access to frequently used menu commands. Honestly though, how many shortcut keys do you know by heart? KeyCue helps you to learn and remember the keyboard shortcuts of the applications you are using. Over time, you will automatically remember frequently used shortcuts and start working more efficiently.
What's new in this version:
- Support for iKey shortcuts (with iKey 2.5 or newer)
- New diagnostics functions for identification of problems on certain system configurations.
- Faster response in Safari with 1Password installed.
- Fixes a problem with slow scanning of menus in FileMaker Pro 11.
- Fixes a memory leak in combination with animations.
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All versions:
4.5 starsout of 15 votes
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Current version:
4.3 starsout of 3 votes
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"This should come with the MacOS"
Version: KeyCue 5.2
Pros
It's essential to understand the keyboard shortcuts, provided by MacOS. This provides you with all you need to know in one press of a button.
Cons
None. None at all.
Summary
Everyone should have this as a log in item. I no longer need to STUDY the plethora of the keyboard shortcuts available in MacOS. If i'm curious about what keyboard action can be used, at any one time, in any particular dialogue box, I can call up a complete list of actions, by holding down a key (that I can pre-assign). No studying needed!
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"Keyboard Shortcuts, on call, right at your fingertips."
Version: KeyCue 5.2
Pros
Works with any Mac program, no more 'menu hunting'; no need to memorize. Unobtrusive, well supported, fills a unique niche.
Cons
None that I know of.
Summary
Quite possibly, KeyCue may be an app you never knew you had a need for. Keyboard shortcuts have been with us since the beginning, but no one ever addressed cataloging, organizing and accessing them in such an easy manner as does KeyCue. It makes every keyboard shortcut available to you, in the front-most app, with the press of a button. You may not have initiated a search for a utility that does what KeyCue does, but after using it, you'll probably wonder how you lived without it.
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"Occasionally useful"
Version: KeyCue 5.2
Pros
Worth the low cost because it can be extremely helpful.
Cons
Very erratic - sometimes just will not work at all for no apparent reason. It usually manages to fail just when I need it most. It has got better at responding at each new version, but still fails sometimes.
Summary
Apart from sometimes not responding when called up, at other times, if you hold down the Option key a mite too long while executing an action, it pops up and gets in the way momentarily - but that is not really its fault. Nevertheless can be very useful from time to time or when learning a new program. Worth the money.
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