Menu shortcuts are supposed to provide quick access to frequently used menu commands, but how many shortcuts do you know by heart?

KeyCue helps you to use your Mac OS X applications more effectively by displaying a concise table of all currently available menu shortcuts.

You no longer need to memorize and remember key combinations; just press the command key and KeyCue tells you what you want to know.

Over time, you will automatically remember frequently used shortcuts and start working more efficiently.

With KeyCue you get an instant overview of the overall functionality of any application, plus you automatically start working more efficiently by making regular use of menu shortcuts.

See a video review of KeyCue at MacApper.

See a video tutorial of KeyCue at Butterscotch.

Here is what KeyCue offers:

	Get an instant overview of all menu shortcuts in any application.
	Simple to use: just press the command key to see the menu shortcut table.
	Clickable shortcuts let you execute any shortcut instantly by clicking it.
	System-wide hotkeys made visible.
	"Teaches you" the most frequently used menu shortcuts on the fly and leads you to increased productivity.
	Different themes for customizing the appearance of the shortcut table.
	Menu shortcuts grouped by menus.
	Optionally include menu and first-level submenu headings.
	Instant access to the KeyCue settings window by means of an extra keyboard shortcut.
	Configurable settings for activation and deactivation
	Show Keyboard Maestro and QuicKeys shortcuts
	Several options for adapting the behavior and appearance of KeyCue to your liking.
	Universal Binary - runs on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Mac computers.
	Multi-Lingual: KeyCue is available in English, German, and French.
	No interference with your normal menu and keyboard usage.

Just press and hold the command key, as if you were about to type a menu shortcut.

Within a configurable time, KeyCue comes to help and tells you which menu shortcuts are available right now in the current application.

You can also configure whether you want to see menu titles and submenus.

KeyCue takes your productivity boost to a new level. It brings menu shortcuts to life by making them clickable.

Just locate the requested menu item and click it to instantly execute it. You can activate all shortcuts by clicking – even those you cannot type.

This is a major step forward in unveiling the full power of menu shortcuts and boosting productivity of both novice and experienced users.

With QuicKeys, you can define shortcuts for specific tasks on your computer.

As with menu shortcuts, when you have defined a lot of useful shortcuts, remembering all the shortcuts for invoking them becomes a challenge.

Starting with version 4.0 of QuicKeys and version 4.5 of KeyCue, the two applications work together allowing KeyCue to show all currently active QuicKeys shortcuts.

Keyboard Maestro is a powerful macro program that lets you define custom action sequences together with your own shortcuts to activate them.

The more shortcuts you have defined the harder it becomes to remember them.

Starting with version 3.0 of Keyboard Maestro and version 4.2 of KeyCue, the two applications work together allowing KeyCue to show all currently active Keyboard Maestro hot keys.

Mac OS X comes with a set of useful shortcuts for keyboard navigation, taking screen snapshots, zooming, activation of Spotlight, Exposé, Dashboard, and more. KeyCue helps you to learn and remember these shortcuts by including them in the pop-up table.

You can decide whether the system-wide shortcuts should appear together with the menu shortcuts in a single large table or in a separate table (as shown to the right) by assigning separate activation keys.

You can access the KeyCue settings window at any time with a keyboard shortcut. Of course, you don't have to remember that, as KeyCue itself will tell you the keyboard combination.

KeyCue sports different themes for customizing the appearance of the shortcut table.

These themes include the "Classic" look and a "Dashboard" theme that darkens the rest of the screen to attract attention to the shortcuts.

KeyCue also includes two large-print themes. If you are visually impaired or just above forty ;-) – you will like the big font size and high contrast of these themes.

You can control whether KeyCue should include menu and submenu titles, how to hilite shortcuts that match the currently pressed modifiers, and more.

You can define which modifier keys should display the shortcut table, how long KeyCue should wait before displaying the table, and which actions should cause the table to disappear.

You can define separate keyboard combinations for menu shortcuts, system-wide shortcuts, and macro shortcuts for QuicKeys or Keyboard Maestro. To collect these groups in one or two larger tables, just define the same keyboard combination(s) for the groups to be combined.

Starting with version 2.0, KeyCue is being distributed as a Universal Binary application, made to run natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Mac computers.