Planned Release Date: November 2026

About This Software

ThiccThocc plays the sound of real mechanical keyboards while you type. Not synthesized clicks — actual boards, recorded in a studio key by key, press and release. It runs system-wide: your editor, your browser, your game. Pick a board you wish you owned, or record the one you do.

Real boards, really recorded

Every profile is a physical keyboard captured one key at a time, in two phases — press and release — so fast rolls overlap the way the real board does. Profiles fit any keyboard: a compact 65% recording remaps automatically to your full-size layout, and no keypress goes silent. ThiccThocc launches with three studio-recorded boards, more on the way — and community keyboards install in one click from the Steam Workshop.

Shape the sound

An audio engine sits between your keystrokes and your ears: one-click presets, reverb spaces, case resonance, stereo placement that follows key positions, and Typing Dynamics that responds to how fast you type. Repeat variation keeps fast typing from tiring your ears — and when you want to go deeper, every stage of the chain is yours to tweak.

Record your own

The built-in Keyboard Studio captures your board key by key, with calibration assistance, background-noise detection, and per-key quality review — or import your own WAV files. The result is a profile of your keyboard — yours to use, sync, and publish for everyone on the Workshop.

It stays out of the way

ThiccThocc runs all day, so it is built to disappear: low CPU and memory use, no background bloat — and a built-in benchmark so you can verify that on your own machine. Auto-pause silences the sound while a program you pick is running, so your match or your call stays clean. Close the window and the tray keeps profiles, timed mute, and controls one click away.

Private by design

No accounts, no telemetry, no servers of ours. Your settings and draft recordings stay on your machine. Finished profiles and your presets sync through Steam Cloud when it is on for your Steam account, and the Workshop only gets what you choose to publish. Streaming? Streamer Mode makes each character key play another key's sound, so no one can reconstruct what you type by ear.

The details

• Works system-wide in any app, on all your machines — Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon) and Linux, SteamOS included
  
• Three studio-recorded keyboard profiles at launch — more coming
  
• Per-key, two-phase (press + release) playback; profiles adapt to any layout, compact through full-size
  
• Custom audio engine tuned for keyboard sound: presets, reverb, case resonance, stereo placement, Typing Dynamics
  
• Record, import, and publish your own boards via Steam Workshop
  
• Steam Cloud sync — your profiles and presets follow you across machines
  
• Auto-pause while a chosen program runs, plus timed mute from the tray
  
• Close the window, keep the sound — tray keeps profiles, quick mute, and controls one click away
  
• Streamer Mode: character keys play another key's sound, so your typing stays private on stream
  
• Light on CPU and RAM — runs all day unnoticed, even on lower-end hardware or alongside your games
  
• Seven themes, and the interface localized in twelve languages

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Portions of the UI text localization were drafted with AI assistance and reviewed/corrected by a human. All audio content consists of real keyboard recordings; artwork and store assets are human-made. The app contains no live/runtime AI generation.