Terms of Use

The licence

MacDotes is free. It is offered from this site as a direct download — not through the Mac App Store, and not through any other store or reseller. Downloading it does not transfer ownership of the software to you; it grants you a free, personal licence to install and run it on Macs you own or control, for as long as you like. No account, no licence key, no subscription.

MacDotes is copyright © 2026 Aaron Aludo, all rights reserved. Please share the link to this site rather than the file: you may not sell MacDotes, re-host or redistribute it, or pass on a modified copy. A copy from anywhere else is not one we can vouch for, and an app that changes your keyboard is the last thing to take from a stranger.

What the app does to your Mac

MacDotes changes one system-wide setting: which physical keys Command and Option send. It applies that swap while an application you have named is the frontmost app, and restores your normal keyboard the moment that application loses focus — not only when it quits. It records what it owes you before changing anything, so an unexpected quit or crash is undone on the next launch, and a restart or logout clears the pending state regardless.

It changes nothing else. It installs no background daemon that outlives it, no kernel extension and no input driver, and it requires no Accessibility or Input Monitoring permission.

MacDotes needs macOS 14.0 or later, and the one setting it changes goes through a private macOS interface — the same one hidutil uses. If a future macOS withdraws it, MacDotes says so and changes nothing rather than misbehaving, but it would stop being useful.

No warranty

MacDotes is provided as is, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. You use it at your own risk. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the developer is not liable for any loss or damage arising from its use — and nothing here limits any right you have under the consumer law of your country.

Trademarks

MacDotes is an independent utility. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Valve Corporation, and it contains no game content, artwork or code belonging to anyone else. Dota 2 is a trademark of Valve Corporation; it is named here only to describe which application the app can be configured to detect. macOS and Mac are trademarks of Apple Inc.

Changes to these terms

If these terms change, the date at the top of this page changes with them. A change that affects how you may use MacDotes will be described here rather than made quietly.

Contact

Questions about these terms: aaronaludo@gmail.com.