How to show keystrokes on screen in Windows 10 with Carnac

Thanks to @Colin Wendt for mentioning that more featured fork in the comments.

Being able to see key presses on screen can help when giving presentations or recording screen activity. Carnac is a tiny, open source tool to display your key presses on-screen.

It's easy to setup and use:
- Open the file to install it.
- Run the app once it's installed.
- Press a few keys to see them displayed on screen.
- Click the Carnac icon in taskbar to open Carnac settings.
- Configure the colors, orientation and other settings to your needs.

Check out Carnac on AlternativeTo:

[JoseGonzalezUwU]

anda de 10 carnac, es el que andaba buscando durante mucho tiempo, muy clean visualmente :)

[DigiFootageFX]

The only problem I faced with Carnac is that it will not record keystrokes of the Shift, Alt or CTRL buttons by themselves unless you use them in conjunction with another key on the keyboard. Also, it displays the Shift+A combination, for example, as simply "A". When doing certain presentations, we would need the SHIFT+A representation to show up, or if we are using mouse and hotkey combinations, showing the SHIFT key itself would be very useful to let people know a certain task requires a mouse click with the SHIFT key or the CTRL key, for example.

[misiaczek]

Personally, i use keystrokes expert as it's the best keystrokes program on the market right now.

[RaymonddeBrieder]

Thanks so much! Was used to KeyCastr on mac, but this is great for Windows

[NicolasSouzaNCS_ofc]

a util thing is a option to resize the symbols and open in separate window to show on OBS

[asmartbajan]

This is super! Thanks. But how do I prevent prevent the mouse icon from popping up when I click the mouse? There doesn't seem to be any setting for that.

[tecaiii]

I dont know how to uninstall or delete this, please help me

[lucagiai]

Do you guys know whether OBS Studio will be able, while screen recording is running, to record Carnac overlay keystrokes? Thanks for helping!

[mmmuck]

Anyone know how to keep the mouse click circles without the mouse button icon showing up in the display?

[greennature]

Ty very Helpful :) I started my Channel again may be its grow in future Thanks for your help