Homerow Changelog

What's new in Homerow 0.21 Alpha

Apr 30, 2023
  • Massive performance improvement in browsers (up to 3x)
  • Added an option to pick between fast or exhaustive web results
  • Homerow now supports all Electron apps.
  • You can prevent Homerow from enabling accessibility in certain Electron apps by adding them to Exceptions under Settings.
  • You can now press Space to shuffle overlapping labels
  • You can now customize label characters and scroll key bindings
  • Added an option to map arrow keys to either select or scroll
  • The cursor is now hidden when Homerow is activated
  • Tutor no longer follows the UI element under the cursor
  • Scroll mode no longer shows a green tint in the active scroll area
  • Redesigned Settings

New in Homerow 0.20 Alpha (Apr 10, 2023)

  • Scroll with HJKL keys by activating Scroll mode (⇧⌘J by default)
  • Hold Shift while scrolling to Dash
  • Option to automatically deactivate Scroll-mode during inactivity
  • Switch to another scroll area by pressing:
  • Tab or Shift-Tab
  • Down or Up arrow keys
  • Control-N or Control-P
  • Numbers (0-9)

New in Homerow 0.19 Alpha (Apr 10, 2023)

  • Separate shortcuts can now be used for both Search and Labels-only mode
  • Added an option to click automatically when a label is selected in Labels-only mode. No need to press Space/Return.
  • Quit Homerow when Command-Q is pressed
  • Added support for Tidal

New in Homerow 0.18 Alpha (Feb 12, 2023)

  • 30% Performance Bump

New in Homerow 0.17 Alpha (Feb 5, 2023)

  • Added support for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Edge, IntelliJ IDEA, IntelliJ IDEA CE, and Whatsapp.
  • Added an option to auto-switch input source
  • Labels now show which characters have been typed
  • Fixed some web elements not being labelled. e.g. GitHub Codespaces in Firefox
  • High contrast labels are now shown when 'Increase Contrast' is enabled in Display settings.
  • A prompt now shows occasionally when license is unactivated

New in Homerow 0.16 Alpha (Jan 25, 2023)

  • Added support for Signal.
  • Press Space to Click is now enabled by default when search is disabled. Removed the option from Preferences.
  • Added A back to the label generation's character set for Classic Mode only.
  • Slight adjustment to the click location for AXLinks
  • I noticed in Chrome, when clicking video titles on the YouTube homepage, that the options button was being clicked instead. The click location is now slightly offset towards the center of the element.