What is it?

It’s 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, and 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.
• Per mouse settings of DPI, scroll wheel & thumb wheel for supported Logi mice.
• A unifying & bolt receiver pairing tool included.

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 button.
• Modifier keyed button/gesture mapping.
• Click-through feature for left/right click for direct actions to inactive windows with one click.
• Click-through option for every mapping independently.
• Right-click free pan scroll.
• Unique fast version of spaces switching, mission control gestures.

Keyboard

• Modifier keys substitution for per keyboard independently.

Exception apps

• Per-app independent settings for scroll setting & button/gesture mapping.

App

• Menu bar app with the hide-able app icon.
• Clean & safe, with no custom network access, and no file access.
• Notarized regular app, doesn’t install any extension, driver or daemon.
• Fully optimized algorithm with extremely low CPU & power usage.
• Fully functional free trial, one-time purchase for a lifetime.

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 recycle bin.