Keylume Alternatives

Keylume is described as 'Stylish on-screen keyboard. For screen recordings and live demos' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Keylume for Windows, Linux, Mac, Linux Mobile and PortableApps.com. The best Keylume alternative is Onboard on-screen keyboard, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Keylume are Free Virtual Keyboard, JustType, Dasher and PopChar.

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Keylume alternatives page was last updated Mar 18, 2026

Neo's SafeKeys
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Neo's SafeKeys is an anti-keylogging virtual keyboard designed to counter keylogging, mouse-logging, clipboard-logging and screen-logging.
Cost / License
Free
Proprietary
Platforms
Windows
Is Neo's SafeKeys a good alternative to Keylume?
Extra Keys
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Extra Keys is a software input panel for typing international accented and other special characters.
Cost / License
Freemium
Proprietary
Platforms
Windows
Is Extra Keys a good alternative to Keylume?
Kvkbd
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Kvkbd is a virtual keyboard for KDE, it contains many feature like system tray and dock support, autodetection and on the fly change of the keyboard layout, scripting with DBus, etc.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Linux
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Ukbd
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Uinput based virtual keyboard library and gtk application.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
Linux
Linux Mobile
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Florence Virtual Keyboard
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Florence is an extensible scalable virtual keyboard for GNOME. You need it if you can't use a real hardware keyboard, for example because you are disabled, your keyboard is broken or because you use a tablet PC, but you must be able to use a pointing device (as a mouse, a...
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Linux
Is this a good alternative to Keylume?
VirtualKeyboard
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VirtualKeyboard is an on-screen keyboard that offers point-and-click typing using pointing devices such as a head pointer, mouse, graphic tablet, trackball, etc. This program is designed primarily for disabled person but it can be used also to teach the children to write, to...
Cost / License
Paid
Proprietary
Platforms
Mac
Is VirtualKeyboard a good alternative to Keylume?
xvkbd
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xvkbd is a virtual (graphical) keyboard program for X Window System which provides a facility to enter characters onto other clients (software) by clicking on a keyboard displayed on the screen. This may be used for systems without a hardware keyboard such as kiosk terminals or...
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Origin
Japan
Platforms
Linux
Linux Mobile
+1
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Keystrokes
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KeyStrokes™ is an award-winning, fully-functional, advanced on-screen keyboard providing people with physical impairments as well as graphic tablet and touch screen users full access to the computer.
Cost / License
Paid
Proprietary
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Mac
Is Keystrokes a good alternative to Keylume?