BetterMouse

BetterMouse Overview

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 of BetterMouse

• 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.

System Requirements for BetterMouse

RAM: 2 GB

Operating System: macOS 11.0 or later

Space Required: 10 MB