On / Off switch
One click declares war. One click calls a ceasefire. The menu bar or tray icon dims so you know the guns are down.
Shotgun Keyboard — a very serious app for Mac and Windows Every.
Keystroke.
Fires.
ShotgunKeyboard plays a shotgun blast every time you press a key on your Mac or PC. Anywhere. System-wide. War has rules; this app has none.
One-time purchase. The ammo is free forever. Mac App Store coming soon.
Now on Windows too. macOS 13 or later, or Windows 10 and 11.
Watch it go off
Twenty-eight seconds, sound on. That's the whole sales pitch.
Install, flip one switch, type one sentence — and hear exactly what your coworkers are about to endure.
Turn the sound on. The entire product is a sound.
Your arsenal of settings
Everything lives behind one little icon in the Mac menu bar or the Windows system tray. No dock or taskbar clutter, no onboarding carousel. Just violence for your ears.
Volume 10–100%
From “polite office skirmish” to “the neighbors are calling someone”. You pick the caliber.
Hold-to-repeat? Optional.
Holding backspace shouldn't sound like a machine gun. Unless — hear us out — you want it to.
Modifier keys too
Let ⇧ ⌘ ⌥ ⌃ (or Ctrl, Alt and Win) join the fight. ⌘S has never felt this dramatic. Neither has Ctrl+S. Save your document. Save yourself.
Launch at login
For a permanent state of war. Your computer boots, the shotgun racks. Settings persist across restarts.
Test sound button
Preview the blast without typing a single character. It's called range practice. Look it up.
Where this came from
It started as a joke
A friend would not stop going on about his mechanical keyboard, so I threw together a prototype to out-annoy him. Then I posted it.
You all saw the rest. By popular demand the joke had to become a real product — so here we are.
@undercovertechgenius
Setup is one switch
macOS makes every app ask before it can hear keystrokes system-wide. Reasonable! ShotgunKeyboard walks you through it and handles the rest itself. On Windows there's no switch at all: install it and start typing.
Launch the app
macOS demands Input Monitoring permission before any app may hear your keys. Fair. The app points you to the right screen.
Flip one switch
Privacy & Security → Input Monitoring → ShotgunKeyboard: ON. That's the entire setup. No account, no tutorial, no newsletter.
It reloads itself
The app notices the grant within a second and restarts on its own. From then on: every. keystroke. fires.
Loud, not creepy
ShotgunKeyboard never records or stores what you type. It only reacts to the fact that a key went down — which key is none of its business. Nothing leaves your computer. The only thing it shoots is air.
Arm your keyboard
$1.99, once. Cheaper than a real shotgun, and legal in open-plan offices. No subscription, no account — just ammo.
Mac or Windows. One purchase — pick your download after checkout.
Have a promo code? There's a field for it in the form. Questions first? support@shotgunkeyboard.com
Prefer the Mac App Store? Same shotgun, currently trundling through App Review — coming soon.
Reasonable questions
Is it really just $1.99?
Yes. $1.99, once, forever. No subscription, no account, no "pro tier". The ammo doesn't run out.
Does it work on Windows?
Yes. Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit, ARM PCs included on Windows 11), as well as macOS 13 or later. Same price, same shotgun. On Windows it lives in the system tray, and Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M mutes it from anywhere.
Will my coworkers hate me?
Almost immediately. That's the volume slider's problem, not ours. Headphones exist; we checked.
Does it record what I type?
Never. It only reacts to the fact that a key went down — which key is none of its business. All sound, zero surveillance, nothing stored, nothing sent anywhere.
Why does a keyboard need a shotgun?
Why does a mechanical keyboard need artisan keycaps? Some questions answer themselves the first time you hear ⌘S go BOOM.
Is this... productive?
Studies we made up show a 400% increase in typing motivation. Your words per minute won't go up, but they'll feel faster.