Better Touch Tool is the gateway to modern Mac customization, I wish more folks would stop bitching about the Touch Bar and get into hacking it. Free to download and use, this tool allows users to customize. It was considered very cool and fun to personalize one's Mac. BetterTouchTool is a personalization application developed by Andreas Hegenberg for Mac users. BetterTouchTool supports: Macbook Trackpad Magic Trackpad 1, 2 & 3 Magic Mouse 1, 2 & 3 Touch Bar customization Siri/Apple Remote Normal Mouse Gestures. That’s where BetterTouchTool comes in handy. So a Touch Bar button or menu bar widget can be a status indicator, plus an action, plus a secondary action. Both of these use Named Triggers, which you can define in BetterTouchTool under Named & Other Triggers. Turn dark mode on with a keyboard shortcut. I also use it to: mute Zoom with a shortcut regardless of which window is active. It completely changed the way I work with code. complex Safari developer shortcuts for console, responsive design view, reader viewīack in the Mac Classic and early OS X days, lots of folks got caught up in ResEdit, hot corners, Keyboard Maestro and themes and whatnot. BetterTouchTool is a free Mac app that essentially allows you to configure gestures and controls for your trackpad/mouse, Apple Remote, Leap Motion and. BetterTouchTool Touch Bar widgets can have long press actions, and menu bar widgets can have right click actions. Bettertouchtool allows me to send and run the current line from any text editor to the terminal. omnipresent tools: XScope tools, 1Password, and most importantly a Terminal 'visor', always available at a touch My favorite Better Touch Tool command is three-fingered trackpad swipe for 'next/previous tab' (cmd-shift-) Given the trend in adding tabs to everything - even Finder - it’s odd that this isn’t simply built into the Trackpad preferences natively. If you already use four-finger-swipe for navigating between spaces, give it a try, I think you'll love it.