For me, the key feature was the ability to assign actions to newly-available gestures. It even lets you assign various actions to keyboard shortcuts. In addition to its not-yet-final support for the Magic Trackpad, BetterTouchTool works with many third-party trackpads and Apple’s The BetterTouchTool utility allows you to define your own gestures and actions. This video demonstrating them on a MacBook trackpad.)īut then I stumbled across Andreas Hegenberg’sīetterTouchTool (donation requested). Giving all that up, to simply gain gesture support on a slick-looking input device just wasn’t worth it in my book. With those buttons, and some help from various utilities, my mouse handled a variety of tasks, including drilling down into Finder folders, searching the Web, displaying a program’s menus at the mouse location, and switching between all my open windows. Razer DeathAdder) and its five customized buttons. While gesture support seemed useful on my desktop Mac Pro, I wasn’t willing to give up on my mouse (a

Added 'Activate Specific Window' action, which let's you activate a window by it's title.Magic Trackpad($69 ), my initial response was something of a yawn.

Migrated Weather Widgets from DarkSky to ï£¿ Weather.

Also first work on Loupedeck devices which will be added next.

Prepared Stream Deck + integration (not yet finsihed).

Maybe fixed an issue where custom Snap Areas might not show after sleep (not sure whether it's really fixed).

Fixed little issue with mouse button chording using advanced trigger conditions.

Fixed issue with existing 'Frontmost windows side by side' actions.

Added 'Activate Previous App / Window', 'Save Active Window' and 'Restore Saved Active Window' actions.

I'll keep on improving this feature soon.

Thanks for the great feedback on the 'Generic Device' feature! Users have already created various script to make things like the Griffin PowerMate, Microsoft Surface Dial, various mouses and remotes work with BetterTouchTool.

Fixed various little bugs that where reported after the 4.0 release.

It has tons of features and allows you to completely customize the way you work with your Mac): What's New In addition to this it has an iOS companion App (BTT Remote) which can also be configured to control your Mac the way you want.īetterTouchTool includes many goodies, like window snapping or an integrated window switcher.īetterTouchTool is the (absolutely free) software for your Mac (running Mac OS X 10.6 or greater). It also allows you to configure actions for keyboard shortcuts, normal mice and the Apple Remote.

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