Advantages of Fastscripts over Keyboard Maestro?

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Hi, does anyone use Fastscripts? Can you give me an idea of the its advantages over Keyboard Maestro? Thanks for the info.

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I’ve read that it executes scripts faster than keyboard maestro.
but tbh a few milliseconds of difference is negligible to install an additional app just for that

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I haven’t used Fastscripts in a few years, but I did have it installed for a long time and found it miles better than the script menu Apple provided. Being able to assign keyboard shortcuts to some of my most-used AppleScripts was all I needed for it to be worth whatever I paid for it. After I started expanding my automation possibilities, mostly with KM, I found that Fastscripts was redundant, at least for what I was mostly using it for, so I uninstalled it. I know Fastscripts now has some sort of regular expressions support baked into it, and I’m sure it had other advantages I never explored. But I haven’t missed it since moving all of what I used it for over to KM.

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