BetterMouse

1.6
It’s a macOS utility app that gives you smooth mouse scrolling, cursor speed control, and powerful mouse/keyboard bindings. It aims to replace bulky, intrusive and resource-hungry
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Updated
Mar 30, 2025
Size
7 MB
Version
1.6
Requirements
macOS 11.0 or later.
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Description

It’s a macOS utility app that gives you smooth mouse scrolling, cursor speed control, and powerful mouse/keyboard bindings. It aims to replace bulky, intrusive and resource-hungry mouse drivers like Logitech Options. It’s feature-rich, lightweight, efficiency-optimized, and most importantly, privacy-safe. We’re trying to meet all your 3rd-party mouse/keyboard needs on macOS.

Features

Scroll

  • Butter smooth scrolling with fully configurable settings for duration, direction, acceleration, etc.
  • Precisely configurable discrete scrolling with or without acceleration.
  • Mouse drag panning, a more convenient way to scroll, you don’t even need a scroll wheel.
  • Scroll with modifier keys for H-scroll, zoom or speed up/down.
  • Configurable thumbwheel for zoom, scroll, or action binding for Logi MX Master series.

Mouse hardware

  • Separated cursor acceleration & speed control, acceleration can be completely disabled.
  • Accurate mouse fps counter.
  • In-depth mouse hardware settings of DPI, onboard profiles, vendor-defined buttons, thumbwheel, etc for supported Logi mice.
  • A unifying & bolt receiver pairing tool included.

Mouse button/gesture mapping

  • All mouse button click, drag, hold and hold-scroll (with optional modifier keys) can be mapped to keyboard shortcuts & rich special actions.
  • Click-through for left/right click. Click-through and multi-shot for each mapped action individually.
  • Unique fast version of spaces switching, mission control actions.

Keyboard

  • General hotkey maps.
  • Vendor-defined key mapping for supported Logi keyboards, with some hardware settings such as backlight, fn inversion and onboard profiles.
  • Physical key-to-key substitutions at the system level.

Exception apps

  • Per-app settings for scrolling, mouse button, and keyboard mapping.

App

  • Apple-notarized regular app, doesn’t install any extensions, drivers, or agents. Doesn’t spawn any files (except for the OS-generated config file in the default location).
  • Clean & safe, with no custom network access, and no file access.
  • Menu bar app with the hide-able app icon.
  • Completely non-sticky to your system, dragging the app to the trash is all you need to uninstall it without leaving any residue.
  • Continuously optimized algorithm with the best in class low CPU & power consumption.
  • 7-day free trial with full functionality, one-time purchase for a lifetime.

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