[isykt]

>Keyboard Maestro 11 is not available from the Mac App Store and probably never will be.

I appreciate the honesty here.

[dceddia]

Aside from any business/ philosophical reasons they might have, one concrete reason for this is that the App Store prohibits apps from asking for accessibility permissions, needed for recording keystrokes, which I imagine would basically make this app impossible!

[ArchOversight]

I have Moom installed from the App Store, it requires the Accessibility feature to be flipped on in Privacy and Security -> Accessibility before it'll work.

[saagarjha]

You can certainly try submitting an app that requests it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[faizmokh]

Kinda make sense considering the functionality. IIRC Apple require all apps on the Mac App Store to enable App Sandbox.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/app_sandb...

[hermitcrab]

I don't blame them. I don't put my Mac software in their app store either. Because:

-High commission.

-Strong downward pressure on price (how much stuff in the Mac app store is $30+ ?).

-Can't sell upgrades.

-I don't want Apple getting between the customer and me.

-I just can't face jumping through all their arbitary hoops.

[wingerlang]

Don't you still need a developer account to sign and notarize? I just released an app outside the store and that's what I do, at least.

[theshrike79]

Most likely for the same reason that 1Password's App Store version can't read QR codes from the screen - limited permissions.