PearHID

Project Status: On Hold

As you may have noticed, development on the app has basically stopped since end of 2025, so I wanted to provide some context.

Between a new job, joining a friend who is building a SaaS company, and other life priorities, I no longer have the time needed to actively maintain or continue development on the project.

Another major reason is that I previously relied on my work MacBook for development. After changing jobs, I no longer have access to a Mac device that I can use for personal development work, which means I’m currently unable to build, test, or release updates for the app.

Because of that, issue responses, feature work, PR reviews, and new releases are effectively on hold indefinitely for now.

The project is not abandoned entirely, and I’d still like to return to it someday if circumstances change. For now though, I want to be transparent that active development is no longer possible on my end.

Thank you to everyone who has used the app, reported issues, submitted ideas, or contributed. I genuinely appreciate all of the support the project has received.

<p align="center"> <img src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c37566e7-144f-4189-b7c5-c27b80acd5a1" width="128" height="128" /> <br /> <strong>Status: </strong>On Hold <br /> <strong>Version: </strong>1.0.2 <br /> <a href="https://github.com/alienator88/PearHID/releases"><strong>Download</strong></a> · <a href="https://github.com/alienator88/PearHID/commits">Commits</a> <br /> <br /> </p> </br>

Easily swap keyboard keys with a nice SwiftUI frontend for IOKit.hid/hidutil

Features

• Save/clear multiple key combinations at once
• Save to launchd plist to persist reboots
• Turn off persist in settings to only affect the current session and disable launch daemon
• Helper tool to perform the launchd plist editing without asking for user password each time
• Custom auto-updater that pulls latest release notes and binaries from GitHub Releases

Preview

<img width="932" height="766" alt="Screenshot 2025-09-18 at 3 30 28 PM" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/498ec772-e74d-4dd2-b659-c62b971a9093" />

Requirements

Requirements

[!NOTE]

• Privileged Helper to auto-load hidutil plist on boot as a LaunchDaemon

macOS Version	Codename	Supported
13.x	Ventura	✅
14.x	Sonoma	✅
15.x	Sequoia	✅
26.x	Tahoe	✅
TBD	Beta	❌

Versions prior to macOS 13.0 are not supported due to missing Swift/SwiftUI APIs required by the app.

Getting PearHID

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Pre-compiled, always up-to-date versions are available from my releases page.

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You can add the app via Homebrew:

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License

[!IMPORTANT]
PearHID is licensed under Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause. This means that you can do anything you'd like with the source, modify it, contribute to it, etc., but the license explicitly prohibits any form of monetization for PearHID or any modified versions of it. See full license HERE

Thanks

This Gist

hidutil-key-remapping-generator

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