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Hacker's Keyboard VS Touch Bar Simulator

Compare Hacker's Keyboard VS Touch Bar Simulator and see what are their differences

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Are you missing the key layout you're used to from your computer when using an Android device?

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The macOS Touch Bar Simulator as a standalone app
  • Hacker's Keyboard Landing page
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    2023-10-03
  • Touch Bar Simulator Landing page
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    2023-09-24

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  • Review - MacVoices #16196: Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Discusses The Touch Bar Simulator, Touché

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Social recommendations and mentions

Hacker's Keyboard might be a bit more popular than Touch Bar Simulator. We know about 5 links to it since March 2021 and only 4 links to Touch Bar Simulator. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Hacker's Keyboard mentions (5)

  • iPhone physical keyboard from ex-Crackberry guy
    I've tried all kinds of portable physical keyboards but for programming on android you can't beat Hackers Keyboard https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard I've got a fork working with Android 14. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
  • Does any one know where I can download a mobile Na'vi keyboard
    I forked the Hacker's Keyboard app on GitHub tweaked it, and compiled it. (using Android Studio). Source: about 1 year ago
  • A pocket sized open-source AR device for the imaginative hacker
    Does not work with Hacker's Keyboard (https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard). It closes itself after a few deciseconds, whereas usually the permanent notification feature can be tapped to open and use a keyboard anywhere. Or maybe I haven't tried using it on the new Android 11 yet and yet another of my favorite hacks broke.... Now that I try it elsewhere,... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
  • Using your phone as a software development platform
    I used to code NodeJS services on my phone quite a lot when I was commuting to an office. I used Termux - https://termux.dev/en/. It was brilliant, and worked far better than you'd think it would. The main problem was the keyboard because the stock Android one doesn't support a lot of symbols. I solved that with https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
  • Practicing Linux within Android
    When I had it installed a couple of years ago, I found hackers keyboard very useful. It has NOT been updated in a long time. So proceed with caution I guess. Github link. Source: over 2 years ago

Touch Bar Simulator mentions (4)

  • Mimic Touch Bar screenshot functionality on non-touch bar M1 MacBook Pro
    If you want a fake (yet fully functional) touchbar on your screen, you could use something like: https://github.com/sindresorhus/touch-bar-simulator (I used that for a while on my 2017 mbp). Source: about 1 year ago
  • Picture-in-picture for all videos that works on Safari 15 / Monterey?
    Baking soda or Fulifier would on most sites but not iPlayer apparently. However (without any need for an extension) I can use PIP on any compatible website via the button on my touchbar. Perhaps until you find an extension, use touch-bar-simulator? Source: over 1 year ago
  • Why does my new M1 Pro MacBook think it has a touch bar?
    Did you try a restart? It’s bizarre that’s it’s using so much virtual memory too. Only thing I could think of it virtual Touch Bar simulator, but I think you would probably know if you were using that lol. Is it possible there’s an app doing something similar? Also, side note, what do you use to rearrange your menu bar? It looks great. Source: over 2 years ago
  • TouchBar Simulator
    I use this one.. Works fine.. Https://github.com/sindresorhus/touch-bar-simulator. Source: almost 3 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Hacker's Keyboard and Touch Bar Simulator, you can also consider the following products

AnySoftKeyboard - Android (f/w 1.5+) on-screen keyboard for multiple languages.

TouchBar for your old MacBook - Use Touch Bar on an iPad through USB connection

Gboard - Google-powered keyboard with search, GIFs, emojis and more!

My TouchBar My Rules (MTMR) - Customize your touch bar as you want it

Fleksy - Fleksy is the #1 private, white-label virtual keyboard SDK, enabling companies to create unimaginable products.

HapticKey - Trigger haptic feedback when tapping Touch Bar