How to use KeyShift

Guides and tutorials

Short, task-based help: install, your first action, the typed trigger, shortcuts, text from screen, permissions and the tray.

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Connect your API key

Pro and Lifetime: use your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini or OpenRouter key, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, with no credits.

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Getting started

Install KeyShift, sign in, and fix your first sentence in under a minute.

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The keyshift trigger

Type naturally, add keyshift and an instruction, then space twice. No selection, no shortcut.

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Shortcuts & custom actions

The default shortcuts, how to change them, and how to give any action its own hotkey.

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Launcher, Quick Actions & more

The Launcher, Quick Actions, clipboard history, voice input, and AI Workflows.

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Read text from your screen

Capture text that cannot be selected, such as subtitles, images, PDFs and error dialogs, and translate or rewrite it.

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macOS & Windows permissions

What Accessibility, Input Monitoring and Screen Recording do, and how to fix “it doesn’t work” on Mac.

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Tray & background behavior

Why the window hides, how to get it back, and what the tray menu does.

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Billing, refunds, or something broken?

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