YAKC v2.0.0

🎉 YAKC 2.0 — Rebuilt from the ground up in Rust + Tauri

YAKC (Yet Another Key Caster) is an open-source, cross-platform key & mouse click visualizer for streamers, content creators, teachers and presenters. Version 2.0 is a complete rewrite that leaves Electron behind.

Why this is a big deal

The old YAKC dragged a whole browser and a Node toolchain behind it. 2.0 is a single native binary of ~8 MB with zero JavaScript dependencies — it starts instantly and sips CPU and RAM.

✨ What's new

• Works everywhere, equally well — Windows, macOS, and Linux on both X11 and Wayland. No "it's better on this OS"; every feature has a real implementation on every platform.
• Any keyboard language, automatically — YAKC reads the character straight from your operating system (and, on Wayland, the exact layout from your compositor). QWERTZ, AZERTY, Turkish, Cyrillic, Greek — they all just work, with no per-language files to maintain.
• Text-editor display mode (new default) — popups behave like you're typing into an editor: only the characters you type show up, and Backspace actually deletes. Prefer the classic "show every key including modifiers, arrows and ⌫"? Switch to raw mode in settings.
• Held keys don't spam the screen — they collapse into a clean counter: a (x13).
• Settings GUI — tweak colors, fonts, size, opacity, corner, offsets, monitor and behavior at runtime; changes apply live.
• Global toggle hotkey (default Ctrl+Alt+Y) to start/stop capturing from anywhere.
• Frictionless setup — no more typing terminal commands. YAKC asks a simple yes/no and applies what it needs through your system's normal password prompt (input-device access on Linux, text-to-speech engine install, the macOS Accessibility pane).
• Tray icon, process filter (capture only while chosen apps are focused), and text-to-speech for every keystroke.

⬇️ Install

Windows

Download and run YAKC_2.0.0_x64-setup.exe (or arm64 on ARM devices). .msi installers are also provided.

macOS

Download YAKC_2.0.0_universal.dmg, open it and drag YAKC to Applications. The universal build runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.

Linux

Distro	File
Debian / Ubuntu	YAKC_2.0.0_amd64.deb (or arm64)
Fedora / openSUSE	YAKC-2.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm (or aarch64)
Any distro	YAKC_2.0.0_amd64.AppImage (or aarch64)

Arch Linux: install from the AUR — yay -S yakc (or your preferred AUR helper).

That's the whole installation — everything else (input permissions, text-to-speech) is prompted on first launch with a simple yes/no.

🔒 Privacy

YAKC is fully offline and open source. It never stores or transmits anything you type. As always, be mindful not to reveal sensitive information while recording or streaming.

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Free and open source under the MIT license. Enjoy! — Aslan Devecioglu

YAKC portable v1.0.4

Automatic detect to stop capturing keystrokes
Some fixes for the German keyboard layout

YAKC portable v1.0.3

• Keyboard Layouts: english, german (more to come with the help of you guys)
• Text To Unicode Characters (as example: Tab will show as ↹)
• Buy me a coffee button in README.md
• a lot more security & minimized user error cases ( I wish I could say much to this as a coder but that's boring to most of you)
• better alwaysOnTop method (screen-saver level)

YAKC portable v1.0.2

Added Text To Speech (upon request for blind students)

YAKC portable v1.0.1

• Font Family
• Font Weight
• changed default BackgroundColor to black
• MouseCoordinates (upon user request)

(currently having trouble deploying for macOS, since I don't have a MacBook anymore).

YAKC-win32-x64-portable v1.0.0

YAKC for windows 32/x64 bit (portable version)