KeybumpsEverything you reach for.
One keyboard shortcut away.
Search, clipboard history, screenshots, dictation, window snapping, and the rest of the utilities you’d install one by one, in a single native macOS app.
Apple silicon · macOS 14.2 or later
Click a tab to see what it holds.
Three keys from anything
Open Quick Search
From any app. It opens on the Search tab by default.
⌘SpaceJump to a tab
Clipboard, ScreenGrabs, Dictation, Snippets, and Timers. These are the default keys; Settings › Quick Search sets the order. Emoji and Translate join once you turn on their plugins: hold ⌘ to see every tab’s key.
⌘1to⌘6Type, then press Return
Open the app or file, copy the item you found, or press ⌘V to paste that item into the app you were using.
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What’s inside
Each plugin does one job well. Here’s what five of them can do.
Copy it once. Find it later.
Everything you copy, text and images, searchable from one shortcut.
- Your 50 most recent copies, text and images
- Shows the app each one came from, and the website’s domain when the browser says
- Copy an image file in Finder and get the image, not its icon
- Screenshots you take land here, ready to paste
Talk instead of type.
Press ⌥ Space, say what you want to write, and press it again. Your words appear where your cursor was, in any app.
- A timer and live sound bars at the notch while you speak
- Pause to think: it writes everything down after you stop
- Every recording kept in Dictation History to search, replay, and copy
- Translate what you said and hear it read aloud (macOS 15 or later)
Every window where you want it, in one keystroke.
Send a window to a half, a third, a corner, or your other display without reaching for the mouse.
- Halves, corners, thirds, sixths, and fourths
- Maximize, center, make smaller or larger, restore
- Move a window to the next or previous display
- Drag a window to the top, a side, or a corner to snap it
Capture, mark up, and paste in seconds.
Take a screenshot, cover what shouldn’t be seen, and paste it anywhere.
- Arrows, text, drawing, blur, and redaction
- ⇧⌘3 and ⇧⌘4 open the editor and copy only when you save, so nothing unredacted reaches the clipboard
- Your screenshots and recordings in a grid of large thumbnails in their own tab
Type it once. Never again.
Save the text you reuse and paste it from Quick Search, or turn on keyword expansion and type a short keyword in any app.
- With keyword expansion on, keywords like ;ship expand as you type
- Sensitive snippets keep their text hidden and out of search
- Bring your snippets over from Alfred
How people use it
Same app, different days. Turn on what your work needs.
Writing and editing
Keep the quotes and links you collect in Clipboard History, save sign-offs as snippets, and dictate a first draft when typing feels slow.
Software development
Paste the command you copied an hour ago, put the editor and browser side by side, and grab a screenshot of the bug with the secrets blurred.
Customer support
Answer common questions with saved snippets, and send marked-up screenshots that show exactly where to click.
Studying and research
Dictate notes, keep everything you copied from your sources searchable, and time focused sessions with a countdown in the menu bar.
Getting faster on a Mac
Shortcut Coach shows the shortcut when you do something by hand, and Quick Search opens any app or file from the keyboard.
Set it up your way
Turn on what you use, change any shortcut, and tune each plugin in Settings.
Only the plugins you want
Turn a plugin off and its shortcuts and background work stop.
Your shortcuts
Change any shortcut. Some start unassigned until you pick one.
Maximum recording length
Stop recording after 5 minutes, or give yourself longer.
Quiet timers
Turn off the ringing, the menu bar countdown, or the menu list.
Emoji skin tone
Set it once and it applies to every emoji that has one.
Copy new screenshots to the clipboard
New screenshots can go straight to the clipboard, or not.
All plugins
Every plugin shares one Quick Search window and one set of settings.
Quick Search
Open apps, files, and folders from the keyboard.
Clipboard History
Search text and images you copied earlier and paste them again.
ScreenGrabs
Take screenshots and mark them up, and record your screen with your voice and the Mac’s sound.
Dictation
Speech to text anywhere, transcribed on this Mac.
Window Manager
Move and resize your application windows.
Shortcut Coach
Learn the shortcuts for actions you do by hand.
Snippets
Save text you reuse, then copy or paste it from Quick Search.
Timer
Count down from a duration and get told when it ends.
Emoji Picker
Find any emoji by name and paste it where you’re typing.
Translation
Translate what you type, then copy it or paste it where you’re typing.
Keystrokes
Show the shortcuts you press on screen, for demos, recordings, and screen sharing.
Questions
What can Keybumps replace?
A launcher, a clipboard manager, a text expander, a dictation app, a window manager, a screenshot editor, a menu bar timer, an emoji picker, and a translator. Turn on the ones you want.
Can I change the shortcuts?
Yes. Change any shortcut in Settings. Some start unassigned until you pick one.
Does Dictation work in any app?
Yes. Your words go where your cursor was when you started.
Can I bring my snippets from Alfred?
Yes. Keybumps imports an Alfred snippets export.
What do I need to run Keybumps?
An Apple silicon Mac running macOS 14.2 or later. The Translation plugin and translating dictations need macOS 15.
Can I move it to a new Mac?
Yes. Deactivate it in Settings on the old Mac, then activate it on the new one.