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 (3461)

• 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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