Tapsody

What it does

Every keystroke plays a click that is synthesized on the spot from a handful of numbers. There are no audio recordings in the app, so it stays small, starts instantly, and never sounds like a loop repeating.

• Seventeen sounds in two collections: seven generic switch types, and ten imitations of whole keyboards voiced from measurements of real builds.
• It behaves like a real board. The space bar rings low and long, Enter and Backspace sit lower than letters, and keys on the left of the keyboard sound from the left.
• Tune it. Drag the tone pad for brightness and body, or use the pitch and decay sliders.
• It stays out of the way. Sleep for a while, mute chosen apps, and see how many keys you have pressed today.

Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Available in thirty-four languages.

Privacy in one paragraph

Tapsody needs the Input Monitoring permission to know when a key goes down and comes back up. It reads the key code and nothing else. No text is stored, nothing is sent anywhere, there is no account and no network access, and macOS itself withholds anything typed into a password field. The full privacy policy says the same thing at greater length.