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Useful Means creates thoughtful Mac software for people who want to understand their tools, stay in control, and work with less friction.

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Shortcut Radar

A privacy-minded shortcut inventory and conflict helper for macOS, designed to show what it knows, where that knowledge came from, and where macOS leaves uncertainty.

The real app

See Shortcut Radar at work.

These are actual Shortcut Radar screens—not rendered concepts. The inventory shown is local to one Mac; results vary with installed apps, permissions, and what macOS makes visible.

See the evidence behind every assessment.

Select a shortcut to inspect what Shortcut Radar currently concludes, the observations supporting it, its assessment history, and every other app where the same assignment has appeared.

Shortcut Radar All Shortcuts view with a selected shortcut and its Current Assessments, evidence history, and shared-across-apps details — Evidence-first assessments—direct observations, history, and shared-across-app context in one view.

Turn thousands of shortcuts into the answer you need.

Combine multiple conditions across owner, command, source, app, evidence, and other fields. Here, two conditions reduce a 1,502-item inventory to the two CleanShot X commands containing “paste.”

Shortcut Radar Refine panel using Owner contains CleanShot X and Command contains paste to return two matching shortcuts — Two conditions turn 1,502 shortcuts into two exact CleanShot X matches.

Mark what matters while you investigate.

Highlight an individual cell, a row, or a column while keeping Refine, grouping, column choices, notes, and bulk actions close at hand.

Shortcut Radar All Shortcuts view with Refine and Highlight Mode active and selected cells highlighted in yellow — Cell-level highlighting keeps important records visible as you compare them.

Make a live shortcut palette work your way.

Focused App palettes follow the app you are using. Global + Focused App can place global shortcuts alongside them, with independent control over structure, appearance, and triggers.

Shortcut Radar Global plus Focused App palette with View options for grouping, layout, divider, density, fields, matching, and position — View
Organize the shortcuts you need at a glance.
Choose grouping, sorting, layout, divider orientation and style, density, displayed fields, match behavior, and a quick screen position.

Shortcut Radar Global plus Focused App palette with Appearance options for colors, transparency, text styling, and density — Appearance
Tune the palette to your desktop.
Choose solid or gradient backgrounds, colors, transparency, text and shortcut-key colors, text size, and column density.

Shortcut Radar Global plus Focused App palette with Trigger options for keyboard, modifier, scroll gesture, and screen corner activation — Triggers
Open it the way that feels natural.
Use a global shortcut, modifier-key hold or double press, scroll gesture, or screen corner—with timing controls for deliberate activation.

Actual Shortcut Radar interface captured from a current development build. Displayed inventories and counts vary by Mac.

Honest by design

We name uncertainty instead of hiding it behind confident-sounding answers.

Private by default

Core product features are designed to work locally, without requiring an account.

Useful in practice

Every detail should help someone understand a system or take a clearer next step.