Input Stats

A macOS menu bar app that tracks your daily keyboard and mouse/trackpad activity.

A fork of Typing Stats by Guillermo Rauch, extended with mouse/trackpad tracking (clicks, scroll, pointer movement) and a high-resolution timeseries drilldown (down to 5-second blocks).

Maintained by mewc. For more, see mewc.info and drummerduck.com.

Privacy: all input counts are stored locally on your Mac (SQLite + iCloud sync of your own aggregate totals). Keystrokes themselves are never recorded — only per-app, per-interval counts.

Install

No notarized release / Homebrew cask — this is a personal public fork distributed as a direct download.

1. Download InputStats.zip from the latest release and unzip it.
2. Move Input Stats.app to /Applications.
3. First launch is blocked by Gatekeeper (ad-hoc signed, not notarized). Either right-click the app → Open and confirm, or run:

   xattr -cr "/Applications/Input Stats.app"

4. Grant Accessibility permission when prompted.

Features

• Live keystroke counter in the menu bar
• Daily / weekly / monthly keystroke stats, multi-device sync via iCloud
• Per-app keystroke breakdown
• Mouse & trackpad tracking — clicks, scroll, and pointer-movement distance
• History window with Keys / Mouse tabs, each with Daily (stacked bars) and Timeseries (lines) views
• Timeseries drilldown — span picker (1h–30d) with resolution down to 5s blocks, gated so wide windows can't render a punishing number of points
• Start at login

Permissions

Accessibility permission is required to count input. You'll be prompted on first launch, or grant it in:

System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility

Build from source

./build.sh             # release build (Input Stats.app)
./build.sh --release   # same, explicit
./dev.sh               # dev build, install + relaunch (yellow icon, "(dev)" suffix)
./dev.sh --run         # dev build, run in foreground to see logs

Releasing

Push a tag to publish a download-only GitHub release (CI builds, zips, and attaches the app):

git tag v0.1.0
git push origin v0.1.0

Credits

• Guillermo Rauch — original Typing Stats
• Ghoshan Jaganathamani — per-app analytics

Uninstall

rm -rf "/Applications/Input Stats.app"
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/TypingStats