Home / Utilities

Paw Pause app icon

Paw Pause

Pauses your keyboard when a cat walks across it

  • macOS
  • Open source

About Paw Pause

Cat owners, this one's for you. Paw Pause lives in the menu bar and detects a cat on the keys by looking at key timing and positions, not at what you typed, so asdfghjkl stays out of the work chat.

Everything stays on-device, with no network calls and nothing stored, and the code is open under MIT. The app weighs about 250 KB and runs on Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

Highlights

  • Pauses input when a cat walks on the keys
  • Looks at timing and key positions, not characters
  • On-device, no network calls
  • About 250 KB

Requirements

macOS 13 or later

More in Utilities

All Utilities apps
  • gyotaku app icon

    gyotaku

    Search the text inside all your screenshots, fully offline

    • Windows
    • macOS
    • Open source
  • PeekDesktop app icon

    PeekDesktop

    Click empty desktop to minimise every window, like on a Mac

    • Windows
    • Open source
  • Tendedero app icon

    Tendedero

    Screenshots hang on a virtual clothesline at the top of your screen

    • macOS
    • Open source
  • GoHide app icon

    GoHide

    Hide chosen apps with one hotkey: window, taskbar icon and sound

    • Windows
    • Freemium