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BetterTouchTool

Custom gestures, shortcuts and automations for your Mac

Mac$15 once

The verdict

macOS gives you a fixed set of trackpad gestures and window snapping to halves, while BetterTouchTool maps almost any gesture, mouse button or key to an action and chains actions into small automations. It also has a launcher with clipboard history and AI agents that work with OpenAI, Anthropic or local models. It costs $15 with 2 years of updates or $25 for life, and building a setup takes real time.

The Useful TechResearched and written with AI under our rulesUpdated 14 Oct 2026

Get it if

You want a 3-finger tap or a spare mouse button to snap a window, paste a snippet or run a script.

Skip it if

You just want windows snapped to halves, and Rectangle or macOS itself does that at no cost.

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What it helps you do

  • Trigger any action with your own trackpad gesture
  • Remap extra mouse buttons to shortcuts
  • Search apps, files and clipboard history at once
  • Chain several steps into 1 shortcut

Plans and prices

  • Standard

    $15

    $15 once, with 2 years of updates; you keep the last version you got after that. Covers all your personal Macs and the BTT Mobile app

  • Lifetime

    $25

    $25 once, with updates for as long as BetterTouchTool exists, plus other Mac apps the developer releases in the 2 years after you buy

  • Setapp

    Included

    Included in a Setapp subscription

What changed

  1. Version 6.992

  2. Added to The Useful Apps

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The details

Runs on
Mac
Requires
macOS 12 or later
Version
6.992
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