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An app that enables you to swipe, zoom, and rotate with a normal mouse in macOS.

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You can download the latest version here. It's completely free to use. The project is not compilable any more so please don't waste any time forking or building it.

About the App

At the end of 2019, I bought a strange mouse with an angular shape, an arrow key, a pair of AB keys, and an almost unusable touch scroll wheel. It would be a nice decoration if I didn't think of it as a mouse. Because of the epidemic of Covid-19, I decided not to bring my MacBook Pro to work. I had to use a Mac Mini at work, and I couldn't find a reason to buy another Magic Mouse to use in the office, I decided to use the strange mouse.

Using a normal mouse in macOS is a terrible thing, the missing gestures and four-way scrolling is a huge problem. For example, there's no way to pan left or right when looking at UI designs. And Swish, my favorite window management tool, doesn't work anymore. So I decided to write an app to fix it, trying to trigger these features by just moving the mouse (and holding some buttons).

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The currently supported features are

  • Four-way scrolling (drag-to-scroll by holding down the trigger button and moving the mouse, which may seem odd, but I kind of like it).
  • Half page down.
  • Two-finger swipe gestures (Safari's swipe to back, Reeder's pull to refresh, etc.).
  • Zoom and rotate.
  • Four-finger swipe gestures (Switch between spaces, Mission Control).