Key mapping Apps
Users are free to customize many aspects of their computing experience, and that includes changing up the mapping of the keys on their keyboards. Want the backspace key to be a space? How about turning the Q key into an alternate A key? More practically, how about custom shortcuts for your most common complex actions not already mapped to dedicated keys? Apps like SharpKeys for Windows and Karabiner for macOS make this and more possible.
- Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. Inspired by the...No screenshots yet
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- SharpKeys is a utility that manages a Registry key that allows Windows to remap one key to any other key.
- Karabiner-Elements is the subset of the next generation Karabiner for macOS Sierra.
- AntiMicro is a program used to map keyboard and mouse actions to gamepad/joystick buttons. It is useful for playing games with poor or no gamepad support.
Discontinued
Github.com shows last commit was Mar 25, 2017. https://github.com/AntiMicro/antimicro/commits/master
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- A utility for mapping keyboard keys and mouse button actions to your game controller buttons for PC gaming.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- KeyTweak is a free keyboard remapper for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/Win 7. It makes use of Microsoft's Scancode Map registry key to remap your keyboard.
- Ever wanted to quickly and easily define your own keyboard layout for a language Microsoft doesn't support?
- Key Manager reveals the full potential of your keyboard and mouse and allows you to save time and efforts while working with your computer.
- TouchCursor lets you use the home keys as cursor keys – in all Windows programs – keeping your fingers in the best position for fast typing. Its free and open-source.
- Pinnacle Game Profiler allows you to emulate your keyboard and mouse with your video game controller, and otherwise customize the controller's behavior.
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- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- VJoy Virtual Joystick is a software application and virtual driver system that allows keyboard input to be translated to joystick input.
- Spark is a powerful and easy shortcuts manager. With Spark you can create Hot Keys to launch applications and documents, execute AppleScripts, command iTunes, and more...
- HotKeyBind is a program that lets you use hotkeys (shortcut key combinations) to do common tasks: opening a web page, launching applications, opening files, shutting down the computer and so on.
- Integrate your keyboard and mouse in one place and turn off the Xbox 360 Controller easily on PC.
- Razer Synapse is unified configuration software that allows users to rebind controls or assign macros to any Razer peripherals and saves those settings automatically in the cloud.