90%
of 2,000+ US internet users surveyed by a Google researcher didn’t know Ctrl+F / ⌘F finds a word on a page.
Dan Russell, Google, 2011 — via The Atlantic
A menu-bar coach for macOS
You probably know five shortcuts.
Your Mac knows thousands.
Keycito sits in your menu bar and quietly notices which shortcuts you use — and which ones you miss. Then it teaches you a few new ones each week and makes them stick. Like Duolingo, but for the way you already work.
macOS 14+ · Free during beta · Nothing you type ever leaves your Mac
The research
This isn’t a you problem. It’s everyone.
81%
of 69,000 Firefox users never pressed Ctrl+F even once in a week. Not a survey — actual telemetry.
Mozilla Test Pilot, 2011
251
experienced Microsoft Word users studied: most still clicked toolbars for commands they used constantly — even knowing shortcuts were faster.
Lane, Napier, Peres & Sándor, Int’l Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 2005
The hopeful part: in Mozilla’s data, people who used Ctrl+F used about twice as many other shortcuts overall. Shortcut habits compound — you just need the first few to stick.
Why nothing stuck before
You’ve tried the cheat sheet. It’s still a PDF somewhere.
Shortcut posters, flashcard apps, cheat-sheet overlays — they all fail the same way: they’re homework. They ask you to stop working and study, then hope you remember at the exact moment it counts.
Keycito flips it. It doesn’t interrupt your work — it learns from it. It reads the menus of the apps you actually use, sees which shortcuts you already know, and — the magic part — notices every time you click a menu item that had a shortcut you didn’t use. That miss becomes your next lesson. A few new shortcuts a week, chosen from your real behavior, reinforced with streaks and spaced repetition until they’re muscle memory.
You don’t study shortcuts. You just work — and the shortcuts show up.
How it works
Three quiet steps, all on your Mac
01
It notices
Keycito reads the menus of the apps you use to learn which shortcuts exist, then notices the moment you click a menu item that had one. A discreet toast, and it’s gone.
02
It teaches
Each week you get a few new shortcuts — chosen from your actual misses, in the apps you actually use. Not a top-ten listicle. Yours.
03
It sticks
Streaks and spaced repetition turn each shortcut into muscle memory. Use one for real and you feel a quiet tick of progress — no confetti, no interruptions.
What’s inside
Small app. Sharp edges considered.
Learns from your real work
No lessons to schedule, no decks to review. Keycito discovers the shortcuts of the apps you already use by reading their menus, and builds your curriculum from your own clicks.
The missed click becomes the lesson
Click a menu item that had a shortcut, get a two-second toast. That miss is exactly what you practice next.
Streaks with forgiveness
Streak freezes are free for everyone, applied automatically, and a weekend shield is on by default. Never for sale.
Leagues, strictly opt-in
Join a small league and compare daily scores — just scores. Skip it and Keycito never talks to a server at all.
Works fully offline
No account required. Everything — tracking, teaching, streaks — runs and stays on your Mac.
Your own numbers, not internet lore
You may have heard your mouse travels “17 miles a year.” Nobody has actually measured that — so we won’t claim it. Instead, a built-in mouse odometer is planned: your real mileage, measured on your Mac, yours to share.
Privacy, first-class
Your keystrokes never leave your Mac. Not encrypted. Not anonymized. Never.
Keycito listens for one thing: whether a keystroke matches a known shortcut in the app you’re using. Matching happens in memory, on your Mac. What gets stored is a count — “⌘D in Finder, 3 times today” — in a local database you can open yourself.
If you join a league, the only thing that syncs is a daily score. Here is, literally, the entire payload:
{ "day": "2026-07-08", "score_components": { "usage": 300, "diversity": 78, "learning": 40, "mastery": 0, "streak": 40 }, "client_version": "1.2.0" }
Plus a nonce and an Ed25519 signature. No key logs, no window titles, no app names, no document names, no timestamps finer than the day.
No screenshots. No telemetry trackers. Keycito works fully offline if you never make an account. Read the full privacy draft →
Early access
Be first in line
Private beta invites go out in small waves. Leave your email and we’ll save your spot.
The waitlist opens shortly. We’re finishing the last of the private-beta plumbing. Check back in a few days — we’d rather ask for your email once, and actually have somewhere to put it.
Free during beta. When it opens: one email when your invite is ready, a short build update every few weeks. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.