Apps with 'Global hotkey' feature

AutoHotkey is a free, open-source scripting language for Windows that allows users to easily create small to complex scripts for all kinds of tasks such as: form fillers, auto-clicking, macros, etc.

Audacious is an advanced audio player. It is free, lightweight, based on GTK+, runs on Linux and many other *nix platforms and is focused on audio quality and supporting a wide range of audio codecs. There is also support for several visual styles from Winamp.

CheatSheet shows you the available shortcuts of the active application after holding the command-key for 2 seconds.

Capture2Text enables users to quickly OCR a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut.

Every time you multitask with many apps open, you need all the windows arranged accordingly. Magnet makes this process swift and easy.

Record and recall without breaking your flow. Minimally disruptive. Maximally efficient.

You can assign a keyboard shortcut, a mouse shortcut or a joystick shortcut to any executable file, document, folder or WWW page. You can also use all multimedia keys, the fourth and fifth mouse buttons and a remote control (if you install WinLIRC).

Trigger actions when certain keys are pressed.

KShare is a screenshotting utility built using Qt and written in C++. It has many features, including:

TaskLayout is a small portable layout manager which allow saving/restoring of desktop layout (a set of specified apps/windows with corresponding position on screen) in a single click/hotkey.

Have you ever tried to type in one language but the result was in another? Annoying, eh?!

Windows hotkey explorer and manager (also available for free as Windows HotKey Explorer). Detect, disable or override hotkeys in your system.

Fling is a simple, flexible, safe and powerful search tool you can download free (without any limitations or annoyances). If you search the web often for information or downloadable files you will enjoy Fling. Here is how it works.

AHK_X11 is a Linux reimplementation of Windows AutoHotkey (AHK) CLASSIC (version 1.0.24 from 2004), with many of Windows AutoHotkey's features but more limited to legacy syntax and a subset of commands.

With SpicyKeys, you can select files/folders in File Explorer and press a hotkey to either open them in a predefined program or move/copy them to a predefined destination. It can also just run a program when a hotkey is pressed and ignore anything selected.