BetterMouse

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:

• Improved reinitializing procedure from wake up, hopefully fixing some configuration loss issues.

• Add a “more smooth” option to scroll.

• Add a chart to visualize your smooth scroll settings for macOS 13, for already overly complicated scroll settings.

• Improved action of “Force click”, and renamed it to Look up.

• Add an option of cursor hold in gesture.

• Add a new long press gesture.

• Expand the long press and drag gestures to the right button.

• Add general “grab for binding” options for quirk buttons of Logi mice.