BetterMouse is a macOS utility improving external mouse performance and functionalities, aiming for replacing bulky, intrusive, and resource-hungry mouse drivers like Logitech Options. It’s feature-rich, light-weighted, efficiency-optimized, and perfectly privacy safe, trying to meet all your needs for using a 3rd-party mouse on macOS.
Features
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.
What’s New:
Version 1.5
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.
Title: BetterMouse 1.5 (4681)
Developer: BetterMouseApp
Compatibility: macOS 11.0 or later
Language: English
Includes: K’ed by TNT
Size: 5.58 MB
