Thy keyboard hath suffered enough. Give its fury a stage.

BARDSMASH turns blind, two-fisted keyboard rage into glorious Shakespearean tragedy. Just smash. Every keystroke is translated, in real time, into tragic verse — iambic pentameter for the unhinged. No score. No timer. No point, really. Only catharsis, in the voice of the Bard.

FIVE RAGE TIERS. Your fury escalates as you smash: start Calm, climb through Vexed and Wrathful, descend into Berserk, and — if you truly commit — ascend to Transcendent, where the screen can barely contain you. Each tier shifts the mood, the verse, and the chaos onscreen.

BARD MODE unlocks at 500 keystrokes. Cross the threshold and the app stops translating and starts composing — full original soliloquies pour out the moment you prove your devotion to the smash.

FOUR HIDDEN EASTER EGGS reward the literate rage-typer. Spell the right phrases mid-tantrum and Shakespeare answers back with a programmer's gallows humor: "to be or not to be" (Hamlet drops the mic), "et tu brute" (betrayed by a code reviewer), "alas poor yorick" (a eulogy for a deprecated function), and "all the world" (all the world's a standup).

THREE THEMES for your particular flavor of despair: Classic gold-on-black, blood-red Blood, and regal purple Royal.

No install. No sign-up. No data leaves your machine. Open it, smash it, feel slightly better. A macOS desktop build is available below for offline, frameless tragedy.

"O, what fresh fury doth my fingers wreak!" Smash freely. The Bard is listening.

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