It is a simple and easy to use keylogger for macOS. It is not meant to be malicious. There are only few keyloggers available for Mac and none of them are in Swift.
Another problem is with Apple high-level APIs. I don't know the reason but Apple suddenly deprecates and removes the documentation of APIs from its website.
So, I don't want to keep checking about the availability of their APIs and changing my code frequently. That is the reason I went for low-level API which is using HID API.
Most of the keyloggers available only log keystrokes into a file without much information about on which app the keystrokes are generated.
Note: This keylogger doesn't capture secure input fields like passwords due to
EnableSecureEventInput
Clone the repository and open the project in Xcode and build the project and run the executable.
To be able to close the Terminal when Keylogger is running, use this command while running the executable.
$ nohup ./Keylogger &And you can quit the Terminal.
To quit the Keylogger, first, find its PID using ps and use kill to stop the keylogger.
$ ps -e | grep "Keylogger"
$ kill -9 pid_of_keylogger_from_above_commandWhen it's run, it creates folder Data
|--Keylogger
|--Data
|--App
|--Devices
|--Key
Key folder stores all the keystrokes according to application. App folder stores all the timestamps of applications being active. Devices folder stores the information about the connected keyboards.
By default, it creates a folder where the executable is present.
To change the path edit bundlePathURL in Keylogger.swift
If the use of this product causes the death of your firstborn or anyone, I'm not responsible ( no warranty, no liability, etc.)
For technical people: It is only for educational purpose.
Feel free to fork the project and submit a pull request with your changes!
MIT
Free Software, Hell Yeah!