EZ Macro

Hotkeys & game macros for Windows — works even in fullscreen games.

EZ Macro installs a global low-level keyboard/mouse hook, so its triggers fire system-wide and can swallow the original keystroke before it reaches the focused app. Built for macro pads, gaming, and everyday shortcut automation.

Features

• Macro actions bound to any key, mouse button, or key combo (including F13–F24 and pad-style combos like Ctrl+F13):
  • Remap a key to another key/button
  • Key sequence — record a scripted series of presses with timing, repeat count, and randomized jitter
  • Auto-repeat / clicker — toggle or hold to spam a key/click at a set rate
  • Launch an app, file, folder, or URL
  • Run command — execute a command line
  • Type text — inject a snippet, signature, or canned message
  • Show cheat sheet — toggle the on-screen overlay
• Text expansions — type a short abbreviation, get a longer phrase (with word-boundary matching)
• Per-app scope — restrict any macro to a specific game/app by exe or window title
• Transparent HUD overlay — fire-toasts when macros run, plus a movable cheat-sheet of all your bindings (position configurable per corner)
• Panic hotkey (Ctrl+Alt+End by default) instantly pauses everything
• System tray with live state icons (listening / recording / paused)
• 4 languages — English, Français, Español, Русский
• In-app updater — signed updates delivered from GitHub Releases

Install

Download the latest installer from the Releases page:

• EZ Macro_x.y.z_x64-setup.exe — NSIS installer (recommended)
• EZ Macro_x.y.z_x64_en-US.msi — MSI installer

The app lives in the system tray; closing the window hides it there. First launch opens a guided setup.

Updates: enable Settings → Updates → Check for updates on startup, or use Check for update now at any time.

Development

Prerequisites: Node.js 20+ and the Rust toolchain (plus the Tauri Windows prerequisites — WebView2 is preinstalled on Windows 10/11).

npm install
npm run tauri dev      # run the app with hot reload
npm run tauri build    # produce local installers (needs signing key env, see below)

Frontend lives in src/ (React 19 + TypeScript + Vite); the native side is in src-tauri/ (Rust + Tauri 2). The global hook and macro engine are in src-tauri/src/hook.rs and src-tauri/src/engine.rs.

Releases

Releases are built and signed automatically by GitHub Actions (.github/workflows/release.yml). To cut one:

1. Bump version in src-tauri/tauri.conf.json and package.json.

2. Tag and push:

   git tag vX.Y.Z && git push origin vX.Y.Z

CI (tauri-action) builds the Windows installers, signs the updater artifacts, and publishes a GitHub Release with latest.json for the in-app updater.

The updater signing key is not in the repo. CI reads it from two repository secrets: TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY and TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD. Building installers locally requires the same key in your environment.

Tech stack

Tauri 2 · React 19 · TypeScript · Vite · Rust · Windows API (windows crate)