KeyCast For Mac

While shooting a video tutorial about anything that is software related on your Mac, keeping your watchers informed by offering them both mouse and keyboard feedback is of the utmost importance.

Some screen-recording or screencasting apps might display both mouse and keyboard inputs, but when it comes to filling out password fields required to login, you will have to turn off the app if you want your privacy to stay intact.

With a solution for this small problem comes KeyCast, a streamlined and user-friendly OS X app that doesn’t only display the keystrokes for your desktop screencast, but it has a special trick up its sleeve: it automatically detects when you are about to input any password and it doesn’t display the keyboard input.

Evidently, the significant advantage provided by KeyCast is the fact that you don’t have to manually turn off the screencast or block the keyboard input display while you are typing passwords, it’s all automatically taken care of.

Another plus is the fact that KeyCast was designed to be as simple as possible, fact well stated by its discrete nature and its minimal looks. After the installation, KeyCast will seamlessly integrate itself into OS X’s menu bar, from where it can be easily enabled or disabled with just a few clicks.

From its status bar menu, you can quickly access the app’s Preferences menu, from where you can customize the appearance of the keyboard input and change the app’s basic behavior. KeyCast makes it possible for you to change the font, shadows and opacity figures for the keyboard input text, record a keyboard shortcut, as well as to setup the app to hide the password input automatically.

KeyCast is a lightweight yet efficient app that is aimed at users who record software video tutorials and often find themselves having to log in to different services, sites, or apps.

This app doesn’t only protect your privacy, but it also improves the tutorial video’s flow, since it automatically hides the keyboard input when you type a password, and you don’t have to turn it off manually.