A Windows productivity utility: global hotkeys, text expansion, clipboard history and mouse gestures in one app.
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- Global hotkeys — 50+ actions: window management (snap, centre, always on top, opacity, move to another monitor), launching apps, sending key sequences, media and volume control, copying the paths of selected files and more. Win-key combos, left/right modifiers and mouse side buttons are supported, and any hotkey can be limited to specific apps.
- Text expansion — expand snippets from a trigger word or a hotkey, with template variables such as the date or the clipboard; search, insert and manage them from a picker.
- Clipboard history — text, images and files, with search, favourites and plain-text paste; pin the panel open to paste several items in a row.
- Mouse — right-button gestures; drag or resize windows while holding a modifier; scroll on the taskbar to change the volume; scroll on a title bar to change opacity, middle-click it to toggle always-on-top.
- Key actions — bind separate single-tap, double-tap and long-press actions to keys such as F1–F12, CapsLock and Esc.
- Text actions — select text and pop up a menu: search, translate, make a QR code, or hand it to your own script.
- Quick launcher — an icon panel with several layouts, groups and search; drag items in from Explorer.
- Browser router — open links in a chosen browser or profile, by URL or by the app the link came from.
- More tools — screen text capture (OCR), quick file preview, unlocking files held by other processes, and a colour picker.
- JavaScript scripting — write your own actions in JS, live on save. See the scripting guide (Chinese).
Everything is configured in the settings window, can be turned on or off individually, and applies the moment you save — no restart.
Get the latest build from Releases:
HotKit-full.exe— full edition, with the JavaScript engineHotKit-lite.exe— lite edition, without scripting, smaller
Windows 10 / 11, x64. A single exe, no installer; settings live in %APPDATA%\HotKit\.
HotKit checks for updates and tells you when a new version is out.
- Free 30-day trial — in the app, open Settings → About and click "Start trial". Every feature is included; no card, no account.
- Lifetime licence, $59 — pay once, use it for good. One licence covers 2 computers (say, work and home) and includes future updates. Personal and commercial use cost the same. Licence holders get email support.
- After the trial ends, or without an active licence, hotkeys and the other features stop working; the settings window and activation stay available, and items already in your clipboard history can still be viewed and pasted.
- Activating or starting a trial contacts our licence server once; after that the licence is checked offline. (The update check at start-up is separate, sends no personal data and can be turned off.)
The LICENSE defines these terms precisely. Buy at hotkit.app.
The documentation is in Chinese for now.
- User manual
- JavaScript scripting — API, examples, using third-party libraries
scripts/ holds ready-to-use example scripts. Put a .js file in %APPDATA%\HotKit\scripts\,
then pick "Run JS script" in a hotkey or text action and enter the file name.
scripts/hotkit.d.ts declares the scripting API: copy it into your scripts folder and VS Code will autocomplete
and type-check your scripts.
Pull requests sharing your scripts are welcome.
Bug reports and feature requests: Issues. Licensing: support@hotkit.app.
This repository carries releases, documentation and example scripts only. The source code is not published.
HotKit is proprietary software with a free 30-day trial; continued use requires a licence. See LICENSE.