macOS menu bar · Razer keyboards

Per-key RGB for Razer keyboards,
native on macOS.

A small menu bar app that lights your keys as you type — reactive ripples, crawlers, and letters. No Razer software, no cloud, no launcher. The effects below are it running on a real board.

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Free · macOS 13 and up · Apple Silicon & Intel

Backgrounds are free
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Effects are how I get backpaid

Ripple effect rippling across a Razer keyboard — RIPPLE · live capture

⚠ Read this part first

Yes, it asks to watch your keystrokes.
Here's the honest why.

To light up a key the instant you hit it, macOS makes the app ask for Accessibility and Input Monitoring. That prompt looks alarming — a keyboard app wanting to "record keystrokes" is exactly the kind of thing you should be suspicious of. So I'm not going to pretend it isn't there. I'll tell you precisely what's happening.

What it does with them

It sees that a key fired so it can paint light at that spot on the board. The keystroke drives one frame of animation and is thrown away.

What it never does

No logging, no saving, nothing leaves your machine. There's no server to send anything to — the app talks only to the keyboard on your desk.

Don't take my word for it

Every line that touches your keyboard or your keystrokes lives in a separate, open-source package — carved off on purpose so you can read every bit of it.

Audit the keystroke code — RizlDizlScaryBitz →

Caught on tape

● REC Ripple

It lives in your menu bar

No window, no dock icon. Just a little keyboard up top — click it, pick a background, layer an effect, done.

RizlDizl icon sitting in the macOS menu bar — That keyboard icon up top is the whole app.

Will it work with your keyboard?

I reverse-engineered this on an Ornata Chroma V2, so that's the one I can personally vouch for. The rest of the Ornata-family boards speak the same protocol, so they should just work — but I haven't had hands on them. If you verify one, tell me and I'll mark it green.

✓ Verified Razer Ornata Chroma V2 My daily driver — fully tested.
~ Probably Razer Ornata Chroma Same family, same protocol.
~ Probably Razer Ornata Same family, same protocol.
~ Probably Razer Cynosa V2 Same family, same protocol.
~ Probably Razer Huntsman V2 Same family, same protocol.
~ Probably Razer BlackWidow V3 Same family, same protocol.

Got one of the "probably" boards working — or one that isn't listed? Let me know and I'll update the list. Backgrounds are free, so there's no risk in trying.

What it actually is

A native menu bar app talking straight to the keyboard. That's the whole thing.

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Reacts as you type

Per-key lighting updates on the keystroke. No noticeable lag.

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Background + effect, separate

Pick any background, layer any effect. Drift, color, and brightness are tunable per mode.

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No cloud, no account

Reverse-engineered protocol, copyright-free. It talks to the board on your machine and nowhere else.

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Stays out of the way

Lives in the menu bar. No launcher, no background hog, no nagging.

Want an effect that isn't here?

Honestly, I'd love the ideas. If you can describe an effect clearly enough that I can build it, I'll ship it — usually within a few days. Free, for anyone who's bought in. Better effects make the whole thing worth more, so this is selfish on my part.

Getting backpaid

The app and all the backgrounds are free. The effects took the most work, so that's the part I charge for.

$9.99/ year

Every effect unlocked — Ripple, Centipede, Alpha Stick, Alpha Splat
New effects I build land in the same license
Request effects and I'll usually ship them in days
Backgrounds stay free whether you buy or not

Unlock the effects

Try before you pay — every effect previews for 30 seconds in the app.

Per-key RGB for Razer keyboards,native on macOS.

Yes, it asks to watch your keystrokes.Here's the honest why.