Karabiner-Elements VS engram

Compare Karabiner-Elements vs engram and see what are their differences.

Karabiner-Elements

Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later. (by pqrs-org)

engram

Arno's Engram v2.0 ("Engram") layout is an optimized key layout for touch typing in English based on ergonomic considerations, with a protocol and software for creating new, optimized key layouts in other languages. (by binarybottle)
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Karabiner-Elements engram
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17,889 222
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9.7 3.7
4 days ago 25 days ago
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Karabiner-Elements

Posts with mentions or reviews of Karabiner-Elements. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-13.

engram

Posts with mentions or reviews of engram. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
  • Unsatisfied with colemak qix, should I switch to something else?
    2 projects | /r/KeyboardLayouts | 6 Dec 2023
    No problem, see this discussion on the Engram forums for more ideas on Q and Z placement: there are non-magical solutions such as combos, hold-taps, etc. In particular, this layout has been applied successfully to an even smaller 26+6 keyboard, as a precedent.
  • APT (V1?) vs Engram
    6 projects | /r/KeyboardLayouts | 8 Jun 2023
    I've considered both the earlier version of APT, as well as Engram, with these layouts putting punctuation on the center index columns.
  • Starting my journey with colemak. This title took me about 2 minutes and cost me a headache.
    4 projects | /r/Colemak | 15 Apr 2023
    See my Engram 2.0 review as well as my programmer-friendly adaptation for details.
  • Just ordered 3x keyboards! Sofle Choc, Charybdis, and the new v2 Dilemma! Never had a split before and want to see what works for me!
    3 projects | /r/ErgoMechKeyboards | 4 Apr 2023
    On leaving QWERTY, you might also consider Arno's Engram 2.0 layout, which places all punctuation in the central columns so that your 8 touch typing fingers go straight up and down, effectively staying in their columns all the time. I've used Engram exclusively since the past 2 years (after 6 months of BEAKL-15, 16 years of Dvorak, and 6 years of QWERTY) and I've written about my experience with it here. Moreover, if you prefer standard shifted pairs (e.g. so quotes don't shift into parentheses), I've created a programmer-friendly variant called the "Engrammer" layout that helps maintain cross-proficiency with standard keyboards.
  • Getting tired of Colemak…
    1 project | /r/KeyboardLayouts | 4 Apr 2023
    And if you prefer standard shifted pairs (e.g. so quotes don't shift into parentheses), I've created a programmer-friendly variant called the "Engrammer" layout that helps maintain cross-proficiency with the standard shifting model.
  • The Great Polish Layout Challenge
    1 project | /r/KeyboardLayouts | 4 Oct 2022
    The discussion on Github is here: https://github.com/binarybottle/engram/issues/46
  • Engram[mer] - Arno's Engram layout for programmers
    2 projects | /r/KeyboardLayouts | 28 Aug 2022
    Specifically, the main distinction between this layout and Arno's Engram, is that this layout retains standard shifting (e.g. Shift-Quote produces DoubleQuote rather than OpenParenthesis) in order to lower the cognitive barrier when having to use standard or non-programmable keyboards. This discussion elaborates further:
  • A take on Workman: Workman-LD.
    1 project | /r/KeyboardLayouts | 14 Aug 2021
    One of the few that acknowledge this is engram: https://github.com/binarybottle/engram
  • Why are there no spanish layouts?
    4 projects | /r/KeyboardLayouts | 13 Jul 2021
    I've already talked with the dev to try to create a spanish variant of Engram, but since this is a subreddit of some keyboard layouts nerds like me who have some skills in creating layouts, I ask YOU if you could help create the perfect spanish layout. It's not easy, maybe too complex right now and there needs to be some adjustment... but come on, we NEED a spanish layout! 500 million of potential native writers will thank you for that in the long therm.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Karabiner-Elements and engram you can also consider the following projects:

Mos - 一个用于在 macOS 上平滑你的鼠标滚动效果或单独设置滚动方向的小工具, 让你的滚轮爽如触控板 | A lightweight tool used to smooth scrolling and set scroll direction independently for your mouse on macOS

halmak - The final version of the AI designed keyboard layout

yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

ULKL - Uniform Latin Keyboard Layouts - intuitive, nationalized, multiplatform, powerful, and basically 100% mutually compatible (also with Dvorak)

stats - macOS system monitor in your menu bar

IQKeyboardManager - Codeless drop-in universal library allows to prevent issues of keyboard sliding up and cover UITextField/UITextView. Neither need to write any code nor any setup required and much more.

RDM - Easily set Mac Retina display to higher unsupported resolutions

barrier - Open-source KVM software

iTerm2 - iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.

pnohty - Pnohty Python play for tiny split keyboards

Hackintool - The Swiss army knife of vanilla Hackintoshing

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