Shakespeare: an open-source Mac typing-stats app built with Claude Code
whitew0lf · reddit · 2026-10-09
A Reddit user released Shakespeare, a free, MIT-licensed macOS menu bar app that turns your typing into fun stats, built end-to-end with Claude Code and working fully offline.
Features
- Tracks keys today and over 14 days, streaks for 50+ key days, your busiest hour, and how many Hamlets you've typed
- Best WPM measured over a full 60-second window, counting letters and spaces only so shortcuts can't inflate it
- Monthly badges named after Shakespeare works (Couplet up to Complete Works), plus mechanical-keyboard-style share cards
- Privacy design: reads only numeric key codes (never characters), stores per-day counters in one owner-only file, top-apps tracking is opt-in
The author directed product and design while Claude wrote 2,500 lines of Swift/SwiftUI, split the architecture, wrote build scripts, and produced 31 unit tests run under AddressSanitizer. Caveats: requires Input Monitoring permission (read the source first) and assumes US key layout.
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