Teclo
Mechanical keyboard sounds and a keycap pet for your Mac
51 followers
Mechanical keyboard sounds and a keycap pet for your Mac
51 followers
Teclo sits in your Mac menu bar and plays a mechanical keyboard sound for every key you press, in any app. A keycap pet reacts as you type and powers up when you keep the pace. 16 sound packs. USD 4.99 once, for life, with a 1-day free trial.
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Hi Product Hunt, I'm Andrei, and I made Teclo.
I like the sound of a mechanical keyboard but type on a MacBook all day. Teclo plays a sound for every key you press and release, in any app, from the menu bar. Next to it lives a small keycap pet: it falls asleep when you stop, cheers up as you type, and powers up if you hold a fast pace.
How the sounds are made: all 10 packs are synthesized by Teclo's own code, not recorded samples. Six are mechanical keyboards (from lubed linears on foam to a buckling spring), and the other four are Rain, Typewriter, Pixel and Laser. Teclo reacts to key presses only; it never logs or sends what you type.
Price: USD 4.99 once, a lifetime licence, with a 1-day free trial on teclo.app.
I'd love to hear which pack you'd pick and what sound you miss.
Update: two things you asked for are now in Teclo 1.0.9.
Make your own sound pack. The new Create page builds a pack from one of the 10 built-in packs, and five knobs change how it sounds. "Surprise me" picks a random sound. You can also import one recording of any sound to play on every key, or record your own keyboard from the microphone, one key at a time. You can export any pack as a single .teclo file to share, and opening or dropping one installs it.
Make the pet your own. Drop any picture on the pet page and it becomes the pet. It still wakes up, cheers and catches fire as you type, just like the keycap. One click switches back to the keycap.
Still USD 4.99 once, with a 7-day free trial on teclo.app. I'd love to hear what you record first.
Synthesized instead of recorded samples is a nice touch, didn't expect that. Does it add any noticeable latency or CPU when you type fast? And the pet falling asleep when you stop is great, I'm a sucker for little characters that react to what you do. Which pack do most people end up on?
Thanks Josip! No latency you'd notice: every pack's sounds are already loaded in memory, so a key press just starts a ready buffer on one of 16 voices, and the output limiter uses a 1 ms attack so it never delays the click. After a minute without typing, the audio engine stops until your next key. The pet is my favourite part too. For long sessions, the soft packs like Butter and Cushion are a good place to start.
Quick update from the maker 👋 Thank you all for the support today!
Since this launch went up, Teclo got:
• 6 new sound packs: Boulder, Cricket, Cushion, Marimba, Terminal and Bubble (16 packs in total)
• a live demo on teclo.app: your keycap pet runs over the keyboard, tap any key to hear a pack
• on your phone? Leave your email and get the download link straight to your Mac
As a thank-you to the Product Hunt community, code PHUNT takes Teclo from $4.99 to $2.99 until October 30. It's a one-time purchase for up to 3 Macs, with a 7-day free trial first.
Which pack should I make next? 🎹
That interactive website is pretty cool. For 30 seconds, I was pressing the keyboard to listen to the sounds! :D
Thank you,@busmark_w_nika made my day.
@glean_ux Haha, enjoy the keyboard hunt! We're cooking up more productivity sounds for Teclo. Any sounds you'd like to hear?
🎉 Teclo just hit 50 followers on Product Hunt, thank you!
To celebrate: code PH50 gives 50% off, so Teclo is $2.49 instead of $4.99. One-time purchase, lifetime licence, up to 3 Macs, 1-day free trial first.
Valid for the first 50 buyers, until October 31.
Grab it on teclo.app. Questions? Just reply here 👇