Who is Shortcut Keeper useful for?

Shortcut Keeper is a macOS app for saving the keyboard shortcuts you use in your apps, so you can look them up instead of searching for them again. It is most useful if you regularly forget shortcuts across multiple apps, are new to macOS, or are switching from another operating system. It is less useful if you already remember your shortcuts or only use one or two apps.

The core problem it solves

The app's own description frames the problem as a loop: you need a shortcut, you Google it or dig through an app's preferences, you use it once, you forget it, and you start over. Shortcut Keeper's answer is to save the shortcut the first time you find it, then check your saved list later instead of searching again.

The example given on the site is Safari's "reopen last closed tab" shortcut (Shift-Command-T): find it, use it, save it, and open Shortcut Keeper to find it at a glance next time.

Who gets the most out of it

• People who use shortcuts across many Mac apps. If you juggle several apps daily, each with its own hotkeys, a single place to store them is more valuable than scattered notes.
• New macOS users. The site specifically notes it is "especially useful if you are coming to macOS from another OS and want to learn its hotkeys."
• People learning an app for the first time. The description points out that when you use an app for the first time, you need to learn many new shortcuts to become efficient — this is the stage where saving them as you encounter them helps.
• Anyone stuck re-searching the same shortcuts. If you repeatedly look up the same hotkey, saving it once breaks that cycle.

How you actually use it

The workflow described is deliberately light:

1. When you encounter a shortcut in an app, add it to Shortcut Keeper.
2. When you need to recall it, open the app and check.
3. Keep it saved until you have memorized it.

Access is designed to stay out of the way: it runs in the background while you use your apps, and you bring it forward with Command-Option-K or by clicking the Menu Bar icon. The menu bar icon shows the shortcuts you have saved for the app you are currently using.

Features relevant to the decision

Who it is probably not for

• You already remember the shortcuts you use and rarely look them up.
• You work in a single app and its shortcuts are already second nature.
• You want something other than a manual save-and-check tool — the app stores what you add; it does not appear to detect or import shortcuts automatically based on the description.

Practical notes before deciding

• It is a Mac app, distributed through the Mac App Store, which the site describes as the easiest way to get it and its free updates. A separate Windows version is also referenced.
• The site states no subscriptions: buy once, use forever and no ads. No specific price is given on the page, so check the Mac App Store listing for current pricing.
• The value depends on you actually saving shortcuts as you find them. If you will not do that step, the app has nothing to show you later.

If your situation matches the "forget and re-search" loop across several apps, or you are new to macOS and want a personal reference for hotkeys, Shortcut Keeper fits that use case. If your shortcuts are already automatic, it adds little.