BetterMouse is a macOS utility that improves external mouse performance and functionalities, aiming to replace bulky, intrusive, and resource-hungry mouse drivers like Logitech Options. It’s feature-rich, lightweight, efficiency-optimized, and perfectly privacy-safe, trying to meet all your needs for using a 3rd-party mouse on macOS.
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BetterMouse
Size: 4.7 MB
Installation:
Same as any other app, unzip the file you downloaded, and move the BetterMouse.app to your /Applications folder, done.
When the first run, it needs accessibility permission, it’s a necessity for all these kinds of apps. Enable it in System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Accessibility.
To uninstall it, just move the BetterMouse.app file to the recycle bin.
- macOS 11.0 or later
Scroll:
- Butter smooth scroll, with fully configurable settings of duration, direction, acceleration, etc.
- Precise configurable discrete scroll with or without acceleration.
- Shift-scroll to horizontal on/off, with configurable speed, direction.
- Ctrl-scroll to zoom/pinch.
- Thumbwheel zoom for hi-res thumbwheel.
Cursor:
- Separated cursor acceleration & speed control, acceleration can be completely eliminated.
- Precise mouse fps counter.
Button/gesture mapping:
- Mapping every extra mouse button to any keyboard shortcuts & extensive special actions.
- Up/down/left/right gestures mapping for every extra mouse buttons.
- Modifier keyed button/gesture mapping.
- Click-through feature for left/right click for direct actions to inactive window with one click.
- Click-through option for every mapping independently.
- Right click free pan view.
Exception apps:
- Per-app independent settings for scroll setting & button/gesture mapping.
App:
- Menu bar app with hide-able app icon.
- Clean & safe, with no custom network access, no file access.
- Fully optimized algorithm with extremely low CPU & power usage.
- Fixed a bug regarding ctrl-right-button-pan zoom. ctrl-scroll zoom improvements. Add ‘eject’ in the key-mapping list in case someone wants to use keyboard shortcuts to put the machine to sleep or turn off the screen.
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