Homerow VS Shortcat

Keep your hands on the keyboard and boost your productivity! Shortcat is a keyboard tool for Mac OS X that lets you 'click' buttons and control your apps with a few keystrokes. Think of it as Spotlight for the user interface.

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111WPM on a Dactyl Manuform with homerow mods and Colemak-DHM

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Category Popularity

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Productivity

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Shortcat seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 26 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.

Homerow mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Homerow yet. Tracking of Homerow recommendations started around Feb 2023.

Shortcat mentions (26)

I disabled my mouse for a week
Many MacOS users don’t know that, in almost all applications, 'Command + ?' opens the Help menu and immediately focuses a search field that allows the user to search and activate any menu command. An additional non-native but amazing (and free!) application is Shortcat (https://shortcat.app/). Among other amazing abilities, Shortcat lets the user access parts of the current application’s GUI that may not be... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
Fluent Search
MacOS actually does better in this area of keyboardless software: you have https://www.homerow.app/ and https://shortcat.app/. Not sure about linux, but I would imagine that the home of OS hackers would have something similar. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
HOW DO I GET RID OF USING MY MOUSE?
If you're on Mac try shortcat - it's solved most mouse issues for me. I use a mouse now <5% of tasks and keyboard shortcuts for the rest. Https://shortcat.app/. Source: 11 months ago
MacOS Shortcat alternative for Linux
As you may or may not know, there's an app called Shortcat for Mac, which is amazingly cool: it allows you to navigate the "whole" UI using the keyboard (something like Vimium in the browser, but for all the "normal" windows). Source: 11 months ago
Exterminate your desk: How to remove your mouse
Does anyone have experience with both Shortcat (https://shortcat.app/) and Homerow (https://www.homerow.app/) to make a comparison? - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago