Logitech Options VS Karabiner

Logitech Options

Customisation of Logitech mouse or keyboard settings, device information, additional functionality...

Karabiner

Karabiner, previously called KeyRemap4MacBook, is a very powerful keyboard remapper for Mac OS X.

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Logitech Options Software: Features and Functionality

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Category Popularity

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Karabiner

Automation

19 19%

Automation

81% 81

Note Taking

30 30%

Note Taking

70% 70

Windows Tools

100 100%

Windows Tools

0% 0

Mac Tools

0 0%

Mac Tools

100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Karabiner seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 271 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Logitech Options mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Logitech Options yet. Tracking of Logitech Options recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Karabiner mentions (271)

Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
Besides the usual Firefox/Chrome, Spotify, etc I use the following: - Karabiner-Elements for key remapping, specifically, for making caps lock into ctrl/esc. I don't know of anything else that does this job. Everyone who remaps keys seems to use this. - Kitty as my terminal of choice. I spend most of my time logged in remotely to a server via ssh where I attach to a tmux session. Kitty was easy enough to... - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago
Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
If I had to recommend 1 app/script that I use daily: https://github.com/banga/git-split-diffs) to disable things like "Apple + Q" -> nothing worse than going to close a single tab and then your whole app quits. Also able to re-map caps-lock into escape, ect `iterm2` for terminal (colored tabs are great; albeit I disable the hell out of many of the options like "clickable urls" ect) for cli, I try to gnu... - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago
Ask HN: What if we wrote HTML with [brackets][/brackets]?
I have been using Karabiner elements (https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org), they allow keyboard customization, I have switched the colon and semicolon key, by default without pressing shift, the key will output colon (:) , I find this useful as I type lot of colon daily. Maybe you can use this software to set "<" and ">" to be the default text output without using Shift. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
Remote desktop from Windows to Mac, native keys and function
In the settings of chrome remote desktop there is an option to not send modifier keys etc to the host system. I've also heard of https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/. Source: 7 months ago
DOS_deck: Play DOS games in the browser with full controller support
Possible karbiner but I've never looked into doing specifically that, so I may be wrong https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago