The best mouse and trackpad apps for Mac

App	Price	How you pay	Mac	Developer	Setapp	Rating
BetterTouchTool	$15 once	Pay once				Too few ratings
Mac Mouse Fix	$2.99 once	Pay once				Too few ratings
LinearMouse	Free, open source	Free				Too few ratings
Mos	Free	Free				Too few ratings
Swish	$16 once	Pay once				Too few ratings
Homerow	$49.99 once	Pay once				Too few ratings

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   BetterTouchTool

   $15 onceOur pick

   Pick it if you want a gesture or spare mouse button to snap windows, paste snippets or run scripts.

   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.

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2. 2

   Mac Mouse Fix

   $2.99 once

   Pick this if you use a gaming or budget mouse with side buttons and miss trackpad gestures.

   Plug a regular mouse into a Mac and you lose every trackpad gesture and smooth scrolling. Mac Mouse Fix brings them back: hold a side button and drag to switch Spaces or open Mission Control, and reverse scrolling for the mouse alone. It costs $2.99 after a 30-day trial that only counts days you use it, while Mos is the free option if smooth scrolling is all you miss.

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   LinearMouse

   Free, open sourceBest free

   Pick it if your plugged-in mouse scrolls the wrong way or the pointer speed feels off, and you want a free fix.

   Turn off pointer acceleration, reverse scrolling on the mouse while the trackpad stays natural, and remap extra buttons to shortcuts or Mission Control, with separate settings per device, app or display. LinearMouse does all of it free and open source, without installing your mouse maker's own software. Mac Mouse Fix, at $2.99 once, is the better pick if what you miss is trackpad-style gestures on a mouse.

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   Mos

   Free

   Pick this if all you want is smooth, trackpad-like scrolling from your mouse wheel for free.

   If you moved from a trackpad to a regular mouse and hate how the wheel jumps in steps, Mos makes it scroll smoothly the way a trackpad does. It also reverses the mouse's direction without touching the trackpad, tunes the feel per app and maps extra buttons to Mission Control or Spaces, all free from the menu bar. Mac Mouse Fix adds trackpad-style gestures for $2.99, but Mos covers smooth scrolling at no cost.

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5. 5

   Swish

   $16 once

   Pick it if you use a trackpad and want swipes and pinches to arrange your windows.

   Recent macOS tiles windows when you drag them to the screen edges, but Swish does it with a swipe on the title bar, snapping to halves, thirds or quarters. Pinch to close, pinch out for full screen and swipe down to minimize, with 30 gestures across windows, the Dock and the menu bar. It needs a trackpad or Magic Mouse and costs $16 once, while Rectangle does keyboard snapping free.

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   Homerow

   $49.99 once

   Pick this if you'd rather never touch the mouse and click buttons by typing a couple of letters.

   Command-Tab gets you to an app from the keyboard, but clicking a button inside it still means reaching for the trackpad, and Homerow fixes that by putting letter labels on every button, link and menu so you type to click. It also scrolls by keyboard, finds buttons by name and works in Safari, Chrome, Slack, Finder and most other apps. At $49.99 it is pricey, so let the free trial show whether the habit sticks.

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• BetterTouchTool vs Mac Mouse FixPick this if you use a gaming or budget mouse with side buttons and miss trackpad gestures.
• BetterTouchTool vs LinearMousePick it if your plugged-in mouse scrolls the wrong way or the pointer speed feels off, and you want a free fix.
• BetterTouchTool vs MosPick this if all you want is smooth, trackpad-like scrolling from your mouse wheel for free.
• Mac Mouse Fix vs LinearMousePick it if your plugged-in mouse scrolls the wrong way or the pointer speed feels off, and you want a free fix.