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Getting Started

Getting Started

Getting Uncapped running takes two steps: install the app, then grant the one macOS permission it needs to read your keyboard and mouse. This page walks through both.

Installation

Coming soon. Uncapped isn’t available to download just yet — we’re putting the finishing touches on the first release. Check back shortly; this page will have the download link the moment it’s ready.

Requirements

  • macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later.
  • Any Apple silicon or Intel Mac.

First launch

Once Uncapped is available, you’ll download it, drag it to your Applications folder, and open it. The first time you open it, macOS may show its standard “downloaded from the Internet” confirmation — click Open to continue. Uncapped then opens straight to the Accessibility screen described below, so you can grant access and get going.

Accessibility permission

Uncapped works by watching your keyboard and mouse and running the shortcuts you set up — turning Caps Lock into a Hyper Key, firing window and system actions, remapping mouse buttons, and so on. macOS guards that kind of input access behind the Accessibility permission, so Uncapped asks for it up front. As the app itself puts it, it needs Accessibility access to monitor your keyboard and run your custom shortcuts.

You only grant this once, and Uncapped never sees anything beyond the keys and clicks it acts on — nothing is logged or sent anywhere.

Granting access

  1. On first run, Uncapped shows the Enable Accessibility Access screen.
  2. Click Grant Access. macOS shows its system prompt pointing you to the Accessibility list. (You can also click Open System Settings to jump straight to System Settings › Privacy & Security › Accessibility.)
  3. In the Accessibility list, switch Uncapped on.
  4. Return to Uncapped — it continues automatically the moment access is granted. There’s no need to relaunch the app.
For the technically curious. macOS has no programmatic way to grant Accessibility access — the toggle has to be flipped by you in System Settings. Uncapped notices the change by checking AXIsProcessTrusted() on a short timer and again whenever it comes back to the foreground, which is why the screen advances on its own as soon as you enable it.

What works without it

A few actions — app-launch, window-management and system-action hotkeys — are registered through macOS’s Carbon hotkey API and don’t strictly need Accessibility access. But the core of Uncapped (key remapping, the Hyper Key, mouse buttons) relies on an input event tap that does, so Uncapped keeps the main interface gated until you’ve granted access. Enable it once and everything is available.

Hyper Key