Further minor releases were made through 2010, followed by the initial release of Keyboard Maestro’s baby brother Switcher Maestro and the Mac App Store version in January 2011.īy that point, development of Keyboard Maestro 5 was well under way and was released in July 2011. Version 4 was a complete rewrite of the user interface, bringing with it a modern look and feel reminiscent of various modern Apple applications. Keyboard Maestro 3 was released in April 2008 followed by a succession of releases over the rest of 2008.ĭevelopment of Keyboard Maestro 4 began in late 2008 and was released in late 2009. After a short break, development on Keyboard Maestro 3 started in earnest and resulted in many new features, including improved and streamlined user interface, recording, new triggers, built-in web server, new actions, and numerous minor enhancements.
Keyboard Maestro 2 introduced many new Macro Triggers (such as Application, Time of Day, and so on), Macro Groups to allow easy control over when macros are active, and many new actions.ĭevelopment of Keyboard Maestro competed for resources with development of Interarchy until the latter was sold to lead developer Matthew Drayton in early 2007.
Our aim was to resolve the outstanding issues with Keyboard Maestro and release 2.0 as soon as possible, which we did in September 2004. On Jthe deal was struck and Stairways Software acquired all the rights to Keyboard Maestro. When we learned that Michael was considering abandoning the application we offered to purchase it from him to ensure that we would not lose this valuable tool, as well as to continue the fine tradition that he had started. Keyboard Maestro languished for over a year as Michael found that he did not have the time or energy to continue development.Īround May 2004, we contacted Michael as a concerned user to query the long delay in the eagerly awaited 2.0 release. After that, life and work got in the way. The first beta of 2.0 was released in early 2003 and development continued until the 2.0b6 beta released in May 2003. Incorporating an impressively powerful hot key macro facility, as well as Application and Clipboard Switching facilities, it rapidly became an indispensable tool for many Mac OS X users, including us here at Stairways Software.ĭevelopment continued on version 1 through the end of 2002, and then work began on version 2. Historyįollowing on the success of Application Switcher for Classic Mac OS, Michael Kamprath wrote Keyboard Maestro for Mac OS X and released it in early 2002. You may distribute this application in any way you wish as long as you only distribute the unmodified Keyboard Maestro package, as downloaded from You may not break Keyboard Maestro up into its component files and distribute parts of it separately.
Keyboard Maestro 6 requires Mac OS X 10.8 or later.
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