

Then, use the drop-down menus to choose your preferred gesture type and action. Click Add New Gesture at the bottom of the screen. To make commands of your own, first select the type of input you’re using from the menu at the top of the screen. The checkboxes at the bottom toggle window snapping and Touch Bar controls. Think keyboard shortcuts, mouse gestures, Touch Bar widgets, remote triggers, and more. BetterTouchTool helps you completely customize and configure how you enter information into your Mac. 3 finger tap - middle click 4 fingers down - Mission Control 4 fingers up - Desktop 4 fingers left/right - swap Spaces 4 finger tap - close window (cmd w) 5 finger tap - new tab (cmd t). I just implemented the old multitouch gestures from 10.6 because fuck Lion/Mountain Lion's gestures. The app is also available through a Setapp subscription.Check out Better Touch Tools for yourself: Unboxing: Channel. For $9, you get two years of updates and a permanent license to the last version released in that period. The app’s latest release, 3.600, brings it into full macOS 12 Monterey compatibility, including deep integration with macOS Shortcuts. If it seems daunting to build extensive trigger/action sets from scratch for software you want to augment, an active user base at posts exported settings that can be downloaded and imported into your copy with a double-click. I would replace TextExpander with BetterTouchTool, but I sometimes have a choice between the two for a given purpose. Each of those apps has a significantly different purpose from BetterTouchTool, so it’s more precise to say BetterTouchTool has a core competency around input methods, and intersects and overlaps with parts of the features of other common automation and workflow utilities.


Vastly more complicated sequences can be built to trigger and perform actions in ways that more closely resemble Keyboard Maestro (or the late, lamented QuicKeys), TextExpander, LaunchBar, and other automation and shortcut apps. Almost anything can be an action, chained together with others.
