Guides
Longer answers to the questions people ask before they pick a keyboard sound app.
- Click, scroll and trackpad sounds on a MacAdd sounds to mouse clicks, scrolling and trackpad swipes and pinches on your Mac: what Teclo plays for each, how to switch them on, and which other apps do it.
- Free keyboard sound apps for MacFree Mac keyboard sound apps: open source, free with paid unlocks, and free trials. What you get without paying in Thock, Mechvibes, Tacque, KeyBell and Kachunk.
- How to make your Mac's keyboard sound mechanicalMake a MacBook or Magic Keyboard sound like a mechanical keyboard: install a keyboard sound app, allow Input Monitoring, and pick a sound. Step by step with Teclo.
- How to use your own keyboard sounds on a MacMake your own keyboard sound pack for Mac: the folder, the 16 WAV files Teclo reads, how keys map to them, and how this differs from Mechvibes packs.
- Is a keyboard sound app safe?Keyboard sound apps ask to monitor your keyboard. What Input Monitoring allows, how a listen-only app differs, what Teclo sends, and how to check any app.
- Keyboard sound apps for Mac, comparedFifteen Mac apps that play mechanical keyboard sounds as you type: what each costs, how it is sold, where its sounds come from and how to choose.
- Klack alternatives for MacLeaving Klack, or deciding against it? The alternatives sorted by the reason people switch: no trial, macOS 15, few switches, no typewriter, price.
- Linear, tactile or clicky?What linear, tactile and clicky keyboard switches do, how each sounds, and a keyboard to hear Teclo's packs of each kind, plus silent and buckling spring.
- Thock, clack and creamy, explained by earWhat thock, clack, marbly and creamy mean when people describe keyboard sounds, with a keyboard in the page to hear each one on Teclo's packs.