Typing Museum Typing Museum

A century and a half of keys, from the writing ball to the buckling spring.

Privacy

Last updated 9 September 2026

Typing Museum processes keyboard and mouse-button events on your Mac to play sounds. We do not collect these events or send them anywhere. This policy explains input monitoring, local settings and purchases in the macOS app.

Keyboard and mouse permission

Typing Museum asks macOS for Input Monitoring so it can play sounds while you use other applications. You grant this access in System Settings. Without it, keyboard sounds are available while Typing Museum's own window is in front.

What the global input monitor does:

  • It uses virtual key codes and key state to choose sounds for keyboard presses, releases, modifier changes and special keyboard keys. It does not extract the text you type in other applications.
  • It receives left, right and other mouse-button presses, including trackpad clicks delivered by macOS as mouse-button events.
  • Mouse Click Sounds is off by default. Turning it on makes button presses play a sound. Turning it off stops click playback; the active input monitor continues to receive button events.
  • It does not subscribe to pointer movement, dragging, scrolling or trackpad gesture events. Its mouse handler does not inspect pointer coordinates or which application or control was clicked.
  • The global monitor is listen-only: it does not modify or inject input.

Keyboard and mouse events used for sounds are processed locally. They are not logged, saved as an input history, transmitted, shared, used for analytics or linked to an identity.

You can turn sounds off in Typing Museum and manage its Input Monitoring permission in macOS System Settings.

The typing pad and local settings

The built-in typing pad displays text that you deliberately enter in Typing Museum. That text is held locally in memory for the pad and is not uploaded. This is separate from the global monitor, which does not extract text typed in other applications.

The app saves preferences such as your selected machine, volume, favourites and appearance on your Mac, along with the state of the collection unlock. The app does not send these preferences to us. Removing the app may leave local preferences behind.

Purchases and external links

Typing Museum offers a one-time purchase to unlock the full collection. Purchases and restores use Apple's StoreKit and are handled by Apple under its own privacy practices. The app checks purchase entitlement locally. We do not receive your payment details.

Input monitoring and purchases are separate. Keyboard and mouse events, and text in the typing pad, are not sent with purchase or restore requests.

Links to sources, support and privacy information open in your browser. Visiting those websites is subject to their own privacy practices; the app does not attach your input events or typing-pad text to those links.

App Privacy on the App Store

Our answer is Data Not Collected. Apple states that data processed only on the device is not considered collected for its App Privacy questionnaire. Keyboard and mouse-event processing in Typing Museum stays on your Mac.

Read Apple's App Privacy guidance.

No accounts, advertising or tracking

The app has no sign-in, subscription, advertising, third-party analytics SDK or developer-operated crash-reporting service. We do not use input events to track you.

Children

The app's data practices are the same for users of all ages. We do not collect personal data from children through the app.

Contact

Questions about this policy: info@gothicinstruments.com
Gothic Instruments – Music For Film Ltd.