Keyboard Maestro and Lattices.
Which fits your workflow?
Keyboard Maestro builds macOS workflows from triggers and actions. Its scope includes applications, text, images, websites, and window arrangement.
A comparison from Lattices · Official documentation reviewed 2026-10-02 · No hands-on benchmark or overall score
When Keyboard Maestro makes sense
Choose Keyboard Maestro when repeated work spans several apps and you want to assemble macros in an editor. You can start with a trigger and a few actions, then add conditions and loops.
When to consider Lattices
Lattices is relevant when the repeated work is organizing named projects, terminal sessions, and groups of windows. Keyboard Maestro is a strong candidate for broader application workflows. Shared window-control duties need explicit coordination.
The tradeoff to understand
Macros still need workflow-specific testing. The manual cautions that mouse-click actions depend on the expected screen state and can break when an app's interface changes.
What Keyboard Maestro gives you
- Programming model
- Macros assembled from triggers and actions
- Workflow logic
- Conditions, loops, and flow-control actions
- Applications
- Launch apps, open documents, and arrange windows
- Text and images
- Text transformations, clipboard tools, and image OCR
- Macro authoring
- Editor, wizard, and recording as a starting point
- Runtime
- A separate engine runs macros after the editor closes
Try one workflow before switching
Choose a task you repeat and check the tool’s official setup guide. Pay attention to permissions, configuration, and conflicting shortcuts. This page compares documented approaches; it does not establish compatibility between two apps running together.
Go to the source
Documentation reviewed 2026-10-02. Examples are illustrative; this is not a hands-on product benchmark.