The Easiest Way to Convert Text Written in Capital Letters
The Caps Lock key is my enemy. I keep accidentally clicking on it and before I know it I’ve typed in FIVE EVIL WORDS LIKE THIS. As a sane person, I remove these words and turn my capitalized rants into simple sentences. This process is time-consuming unless you use a tool to fix the way macOS handles text with a capital letter. This is where SmartCapsLock comes to the rescue.
How to use SmartCapsLock
SmartCapsLock is a simple utility that allows you to use the Caps Lock key to your advantage. Once installed, the app is unobtrusive and does only one thing: If you accidentally capitalize a few words, you can quickly select those words and press Caps Lock again to convert them to sentence case. This works as long as SmartCapsLock is installed and running. If you haven’t selected any words, SmartCapsLock won’t do anything.
This means that the application does not interfere with other tasks. My only complaint is that SmartCapsLock by default uses sentence case conversion, which changes the first letter of the selected text to capitalize. Sometimes I accidentally press Caps Lock in the middle of a sentence, and when I use this app to correct this error, I am left with one capital letter that is out of place. Changing the default to lowercase fixed it for me.
You can quickly change this setting by opening SmartCapsLock in the menu bar. It offers a variety of keyboard shortcuts related to the Caps Lock key, and each of them is mapped to a text conversion option. Feel free to change the default settings and prioritize the text transformations you use most often. The utility supports upper and lower case, sentence case, capitalization case and several other interesting options, such as SpongeBob case, which capitalizes random letters.
Installing SmartCapsLock
SmartCapsLock uses a pay-what-you-want pricing model, and if you want, you can get it for free by entering 0 in the price field. You can use this to try out the app and if you like it, you should consider supporting developer Kishan Bagaria, creator of Texts .
However, the app is outdated and not available on the App Store. This means you may need to right-click the application and select Open to launch it. Your Mac may also warn you that the developer is not verified and that you may be downloading malicious software. Lifehacker contacted Bagaria directly, who confirmed that the app is reputable and safe to use. If you have an M series Mac, you’ll need to allow macOS to install Rosetta because the app was written for Intel-based Macs.
During installation, your Mac may block SmartCapsLock, but you can go to System Preferences > Privacy & Security > Security to allow it to run. This is a one-time procedure and will not bother you again.
Of course, if you don’t want to deal with Caps Lock at all, you can always remap the key to do something else instead .