Keyboard shortcuts — web + desktop reference

In the video: 2:24 — on the live page, Shortcuts lists every one.

Every shortcut is the same key combination on web and desktop. macOS users: substitute ⌘ wherever you see Ctrl, except the few in the On a Mac section below, which add ⌥ (Option). Linux users: same as Windows.

Live session shortcuts

These work inside /interview (web) and the live overlay window (desktop). The desktop versions register as global shortcuts — they fire even when the AI overlay isn't focused (so you can fire AI while Zoom is focused).

Action	Shortcut	Notes
Answer current question	Ctrl+Enter	Fires the AI on the latest question in the transcript. Manual-mode trigger.
Capture & analyze screen	Ctrl+Shift+X	Screenshots active screen, sends to AI with last question for grounded answer (e.g., "what's wrong with this code?"). See Screen Analysis.
Copy latest AI answer	Ctrl+Shift+C	Plain-text copy to clipboard. Strips inline-advice pills + markdown.
Toggle microphone	Ctrl+M	Mutes/unmutes your mic capture. Doesn't affect interviewer audio.
Toggle interviewer audio	Ctrl+Shift+S	Pause/resume system-audio capture (the interviewer's voice channel).
Focus chat composer	Ctrl+/	Jumps cursor into the bottom message input.
End Session	Ctrl+Shift+E	Ends the session immediately — same as clicking End Session button.
Hide / show live window	Ctrl+H	(Desktop only) Toggles overlay visibility.
Hide / show window (global)	Ctrl+Shift+H	(Desktop only, global) Works even when another app has focus.
Clear answers	Ctrl+Backspace	Wipes the AI answer stack. Transcript stays.
Clear transcript	Ctrl+Shift+Backspace	Wipes the live transcript. Answers stay.

Navigating AI answers

When the AI gives you multiple answers in a row, navigate the stack without scrolling:

Action	Shortcut
Previous AI answer	Ctrl+←
Next AI answer	Ctrl+→
Scroll AI answer up	Ctrl+↑
Scroll AI answer down	Ctrl+↓

The stack shows newest at top (since 2026-05-18). Ctrl+← goes to the older answer below.

Desktop overlay controls

These are desktop-only since they don't apply in a browser tab:

Action	Shortcut	Notes
Move to next screen	Ctrl+Shift+→	Multi-monitor setups — moves the overlay to the next display.
Increase overlay opacity	Ctrl+Shift+↑	Brighter overlay. Useful in bright rooms.
Decrease overlay opacity	Ctrl+Shift+↓	Dimmer overlay. Useful in dark rooms.
Reset overlay (emergency)	Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R	If overlay misbehaves — re-mounts the live window + resets click-through.
Force quit app (emergency)	Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Q	Triple-modifier kill. The desktop app has no tray icon by default, so this is the way out if it stops responding.

On a Mac

During an interview the desktop shortcuts work in every app, and on a Mac ⌘ plus an arrow, ⌫ or / is a typing key (jump to the start or end of a line, delete the line, comment out code). So these add ⌥ (Option) on a Mac, on the website too:

Action	Mac
Previous / next AI answer	⌘⌥← / ⌘⌥→
Scroll AI answer up / down	⌘⌥↑ / ⌘⌥↓
Focus chat composer	⌘⌥/
Clear answers	⌘⌥⌫
Move to next screen	⌘⌥⇧→
Increase / decrease opacity	⌘⌥⇧↑ / ⌘⌥⇧↓

End Session stays on the Control key on a Mac too: ⌃⇧E.

Home page shortcut (web only)

Action	Shortcut	Notes
Command palette	Cmd+K / Ctrl+K	(Web /home) Opens search palette → filters help articles (how it works).

Why so many shortcuts on desktop?

The desktop app runs as a transparent overlay. You'll often have an interview app (Zoom, Google Meet, Teams) focused — your mouse is on THAT window. Without global shortcuts, you'd have to alt-tab to the overlay first, click in, then trigger the AI, which pulls you out of the conversation. Global shortcuts let the overlay fire from wherever your cursor is.

Why Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R and Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Q are weird

Triple-modifier shortcuts are intentionally hard to accidentally trigger while typing. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R while answering a question is vanishingly unlikely — but it's there for the edge case where the app misbehaves and, with no tray icon to click (the default), you can't easily reach it another way.

What's NOT a shortcut

Things people often ask about that don't have a shortcut today:

• Switch answer style mid-session — UI only (topbar Settings)
• Switch model mid-session — UI only (topbar Model dropdown)
• Toggle Auto-Answer — UI only (Auto/Manual pill in topbar)
• Toggle Coaching mode — UI only (topbar Settings → Coaching tips)
• Toggle Live coach — UI only (topbar Settings → Live coach)

These are deliberately UI-only — they're settings that should be set BEFORE the session, not pivoted mid-session. (Answer style is an exception — switching it mid-session is intentional UX.)

Customizing shortcuts

Not supported yet. If a shortcut conflicts with another app you use (Zoom uses Ctrl+M for mute too — see Gotchas), let us know via Help & how-tos.

Gotchas

• Ctrl+M collision with Zoom. Zoom uses Ctrl+M for mute. When the desktop overlay registers the global hotkey, our app eats it before Zoom — so Zoom's mute stops working while the overlay is running. Workaround: use Zoom's mic icon in its toolbar, or unregister our shortcut via Settings (planned).
• Ctrl+H on web hides browser history. On Firefox/Chrome inside /interview, Ctrl+H opens history. Use Ctrl+Shift+H for the live-window toggle on the web version (desktop only registers Ctrl+H because it's not a browser).

Still stuck?

Help & how-tos → Contact us with category "How do I…?" if you want a shortcut that doesn't exist — or if one conflicts with your interview app.