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# Keyboard Sounds

Typing sounds as you type. Each key press becomes a sound on your Mac and is never recorded, stored or sent. Password fields stay quiet.

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![Keyboard settings: a try-it pad and the Cream sounds Mallow, Custard, Butter and Silk](https://clacky.app/features27/keyboard-sounds-light.webp)![Keyboard settings: a try-it pad and the Cream sounds Mallow, Custard, Butter and Silk](https://clacky.app/features27/keyboard-sounds-dark.webp)

## What it is

Keyboard Sounds plays a sound for every key you press, in every app, so your Mac’s keyboard sounds the way you like.

Each key press only plays a sound. Clacky never records, stores, logs or sends which keys you type, and never captures text. Password fields (Secure Input) stay quiet.

Pick the keyboard sound you like, set its own volume, and change the feel: a sound on key up, held keys, stereo by key position and the case.

## How to use it

1.  1
    
    Turn it on
    
    Flip on the Keyboard Sounds card in Sounds, or go to Settings → Keyboard.
    
2.  2
    
    Allow Input Monitoring
    
    If macOS hasn’t allowed it yet, the card shows Allow…. Allow Clacky in System Settings, then reopen Clacky if it asks.
    
3.  3
    
    Pick a sound
    
    In Settings → Keyboard, press a card to hear it, then type in the box to try it. Or use Keyboard Sound in the Clacky menu.
    
4.  4
    
    Change the feel
    
    More options has Sound on key up, Held keys, Stereo by key position, Case, Typing combos and Per-app sounds.
    

## Tips

-   Per-app sounds gives an app a different keyboard sound, or none, while you type in it.
-   The keyboard volume is separate from the click volume.

## Questions

Does Clacky record what I type?

No. Each key press only plays a sound. Clacky never records, stores, logs or sends which keys you type, and never captures text.

What about passwords?

Password fields use Secure Input, and Clacky stays quiet there.

Why does it need Input Monitoring?

macOS only lets an app hear key presses with that permission. Clacky uses it to play a sound for each press, nothing more.

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    [Sounds where you want them](https://clacky.app/features/sound-control/)
    
    Only with headphones, on the output you pick, or only in the apps you choose. Ripples still show everywhere.
    
-   ![](https://clacky.app/features27/privacy-promise-light.webp)![](https://clacky.app/features27/privacy-promise-dark.webp)
    
    [Privacy](https://clacky.app/features/privacy/)
    
    Keys become sounds and are never recorded. Screenshots, recordings and captions stay on your Mac. Anonymous usage stats you can switch off.
    

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