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.


Supported Operation Systems
macOS 11.0 or later