PearHID

Status: Maintained
Version: 1.0.0 (BETA)
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Easily swap keyboard keys with a nice SwiftUI frontend for IOKit.hid/hidutil

Features

• Save/clear multiple key combinations at once
• Save to launchd plist to persist reboots
• Turn off persist in settings to only affect the current session and disable launch daemon
• Helper tool to perform the launchd plist editing without asking for user password each time
• Custom auto-updater that pulls latest release notes and binaries from GitHub Releases

Preview

Requirements

• MacOS 13.0+ (App uses some newer SwiftUI functions/modifiers which don't work on anything lower than 13.0)

Getting PearHID

Releases

Pre-compiled, always up-to-date versions are available from my releases page.

Homebrew Coming Soon

You can add the app via Homebrew:

License

Important

PearHID is licensed under Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause. This means that you can do anything you'd like with the source, modify it, contribute to it, etc., but the license explicitly prohibits any form of monetization for PearHID or any modified versions of it. See full license HERE

Thanks

This Gist

hidutil-key-remapping-generator

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