TICS
Your Mac sounds better. It's not ASMR, it's TICS.
TICS adds sound to your keys, your clicks, your scrolling and your windows. You choose how it sounds, and when you'd rather have silence.
TICS keeps you company without getting in the way.
There's something about the clack of a mechanical keyboard that feels good: every key answers back. Your mouse works the same way. And so does moving or resizing a window: it's a pleasure when what you do gets a response.
Like many of my apps, I made this one for myself.
If you think of a way to make it better, I'd love to hear from you. Maybe I'll build it, or maybe you'd rather build it yourself: it's open source and free.
What it does
TICS lives in the menu bar. Every key you press, in any app, plays the sound of the keyboard you choose.
- 11 keyboards: Cherry MX Blue, Brown and Red, Holy Panda, Cream, MX Blue, MX Brown, Oreo, Topre Purple, Turquoise, and a synthetic one.
- Press and release sound different, like on a real keyboard. And when you hold a key down, each repeat sounds softer.
- Your mouse makes sounds too: clicks, the scroll wheel on every notch, and dragging, including when you move or resize a window, which sounds like a ratchet, faster the quicker you move.
- Every sound, your way. In Mouse Settings, you set the pitch, the volume and how dry or hollow each button, dragging and the scroll wheel sound, and you hear them as you go. In Keyboard Settings, you swap the sound of a group of keys, a single key or a shortcut for one from another keyboard.
Privacy
To know which key you press and pick its sound, TICS asks for Input Monitoring permission. It only listens: it never saves what you type or where you click, and it never connects to the internet.
If you have a Logitech mouse, it can also ask for Bluetooth permission, to hear the Options+ buttons and to make your mouse vibrate. It only listens for when you press and release them, and it doesn't change anything you've set up in Options+.
Logitech mice
Logi Options+ takes over some of your mouse's buttons —back, forward, gestures— to give them its own actions, and those never reach your Mac as a click. Turn on the Logitech tile in the panel, which appears when you connect one, and they make a sound too. It works with the mouse connected over Bluetooth, but not with the Bolt receiver.
With an MX Master 4, each button can also vibrate when you press it. In Mouse Settings, you pick an effect for each one: Tap, Knock, Alert, Wave or Shake.
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