Keystroke

Download Keystroke

One installer for Windows 10 and 11. No administrator rights and nothing else to install first.

Download Keystroke 1.0.6 17 MB

Installing

  1. Run the file you downloaded.
  2. If Windows shows "Windows protected your PC", choose More info, then Run anyway. Windows shows this for programs it has not seen many times before.
  3. Choose the folder for your phrases. To use the same phrases on several PCs, pick a folder in OneDrive, Dropbox or Google Drive, and choose that same folder on each PC. See the same phrases on every PC.
  4. Keystroke starts, and its icon appears in the tray. Click it to add your first phrase.

Updating

Download the newest version and run it over the top. Your phrases, phrase folder and settings are kept.

Removing

Use Settings, Apps, Installed apps, then Keystroke, Uninstall. Everything Keystroke added to the PC is removed. It then asks whether to keep your phrases, and keeping them is the default. If your phrase folder is shared through a cloud service, deleting them there deletes them from every PC that uses it, so it asks twice.

Espanso, the engine inside

Keystroke includes Espanso 2.4.1, unmodified, by Federico Terzi and its contributors. Espanso is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3, which lets anyone pass it on as long as its source code is offered too.

Espanso 2.4.1 source code: espanso-2.4.1-source.tar.gz (70 MB). It is also published by its authors at github.com/espanso/espanso.