# cocoabits/MASShortcut

Modern framework for managing global keyboard shortcuts compatible with Mac App Store. More details:

Repository: https://github.com/cocoabits/MASShortcut
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/masshortcut
Homepage: http://blog.shpakovski.com/2012/07/global-keyboard-shortcuts-in-cocoa.html
Language: Objective-C
License: BSD-2-Clause
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-10-18T04:07:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5171, "days_push": 1415, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1547, forks 236 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:01.703327+00:00)

## What it is
MASShortcut is an Objective-C framework for macOS that lets apps record, display, store, and respond to system-wide keyboard shortcuts. It provides a ready-made UI view and a documented API, and is compatible with Mac App Store requirements.

## Use cases
- add a keyboard shortcut recorder to my mac app preferences
- register system-wide hotkeys in a macOS application
- let users customize global keyboard shortcuts
- mac app store compatible shortcut recording UI
- bind user defaults to a shortcut recorder view
- watch for global key presses and trigger actions

## When to choose
- building a native macOS app that needs user-configurable global hotkeys
- you need Mac App Store-compatible shortcut handling
- you want a drop-in shortcut recorder view bound to NSUserDefaults

## When to avoid
- building for iOS or non-Apple platforms
- you need a cross-platform shortcut solution
- your project requires actively maintained dependencies with frequent updates

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, developer-tools
- domain: operating-systems, desktop-applications, developer-tools
- platform: -
- tags: keyboard-shortcuts, objective-c, hotkeys, global-shortcuts, mac-app-store, cocoa, macos

## Member repositories
- cocoabits/MASShortcut (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:01.703327+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:30:28.640659+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cocoabits/MASShortcut (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:01.703327+00:00, sha 2d9fb830982c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.