Punto Switcher for Mac

If you came from Windows, you already know the magic: type a word in the wrong layout and it fixes itself — no select, delete, switch, retype. On the Mac that habit breaks, because there's no real Punto Switcher to install.

Rekey rebuilds that habit, natively for macOS. It lives quietly in your menu bar, watches what you type, and the moment a whole word lands in the wrong keyboard layout it rewrites it correctly — in under 200ms. You just keep typing.

It matters most on an ordinary day: a line in Slack, a query in Spotlight, the first sentence of an email — each one a chance to start in the wrong layout. When you switch languages dozens of times a day, automatic correction stops being a nice-to-have and just removes the noise.

Unlike the old Punto, Rekey isn't built around one language pair. It handles 34 languages — Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Georgian, Armenian and Thai — and everything runs 100% on your Mac, with nothing sent to the cloud.

And it knows when to stay out of the way: Rekey respects password fields, and terminals and code editors are excluded by default, so a stray "correction" never breaks a command or a variable name.

People still search for "Punto Switcher for Mac" because the problem never went away: you move between languages, mistype the layout, and want the computer to quietly catch it. But Punto Switcher itself was a Yandex tool for Windows. Its logic, expectations and integrations grew up in a different system.

There was once an old macOS build, but it's no longer a maintained solution. On modern Apple-Silicon Macs that shows: the old utility doesn't give the stable, predictable behaviour you expect from a tool that types for you. When software reaches into your text input, "almost works" isn't enough.

So the honest answer is this: today you don't need an archived Punto, you need a modern Punto Switcher alternative built for macOS. Rekey fills that gap — native, current Apple Silicon and Intel support, on-device processing, and careful behaviour exactly where automatic correction could get in the way.

Bilinguals feel it first: when two languages constantly alternate in chats, docs, search and notes, your hands don't always keep up with your head. One line in a messenger, one Spotlight query, one reply in mail — and a layout slip has already cost a few seconds and a bit of attention.

Developers care about the other half: correction should help in human text but never touch code. That's why Rekey skips terminals and code editors by default. Write comments, emails and tickets with automatic correction on, without fearing it rewrites a command or a variable name.

For translators, students and people living abroad, Rekey saves more than keystrokes — it saves context. A good Punto Switcher alternative for macOS should be invisible: it just puts the text back in the right shape and lets you stay in the conversation.