Keyboard Pilot For Mac

Keyboard Pilot is a straightforward and easy-to-use Mac OS X utility designed for developers who constantly switch keyboard layouts. In a nutshell, Keyboard Pilot can automatically switch to a different keyboard layout when you launch a certain application.

The utility features an elegant and straightforward user interface where you can drag and drop applications and select a different keyboard layout for each. Keyboard Pilot enables you to specify a default layout, but also to manually select the desired layout of any individual app you have added.

Several extra options include a button to open your Applications folder, viewing all the available layouts and setting Keyboard Pilot to automatically open at computer login. What’s more, a “-” button will enable you to remove selected applications from the list.

Some case usage for Keyboard Pilot could include the following situations: writing in different languages (which require a different keyboard layout) in certain applications, accessing the [] or {} symbols with more ease in the English layout or switching to the English layout to work with standard Photoshop hotkeys.

Keyboard Pilot comes with a convenient menu bar icon that offers one-click access to the Preferences window, apart from the standard options for quitting and checking for updates.

To summarize, Keyboard Pilot is an efficient OS X solution that automates the task of assigning a distinct keyboard layout to any application installed on your Mac. The user interface is highly intuitive and choosing a layout for a particular app is extremely simple.