Skip to main content
The problem with a lot of demo videos is that you can’t see what the person is typing — your screen recording doesn’t capture your keystrokes. You can fix this with a neat little app called Keystroke Pro. Keystroke 2.png What it does is it shows the keys that you’re pressing on screen so that people watching the video, usually a screen recording, can see them too. This is what it looks like. Example.png You basically just press the key and then it’ll appear on screen. This is perfect for demos and tutorials with lots of keyboard action — keyboard shortcuts, or anything that requires typing the viewer should be able to follow along with. So once you’ve got the app installed, you can open up the settings and that’s where you can have some real fun with it. Example.png You’ve got some general options here, but the fun stuff is in the Appearance settings where you can play around with the way it looks by choosing different styles, its sizes, and transitions. You can also change the duration so do you want them really on screen or do you want them just off or just flickering on? Then you can pick the colors. What’s cool is that you don’t just pick one color, but you can pick the colors for all of the sort of three different types of keys, the escape, the modifier, and the key color. It’s just a really fun, delightful little app that will make all your demos a little bit better and it works perfectly alongside Tella so you can just record your entire screen and then all your keys are going to be in there too.