WheelClick

I wrote MiddleClick in 2019, a free app that gave the Mac trackpad a middle click. Seven years and nearly 3,000 GitHub stars later, I rebuilt it from scratch as WheelClick, with what those years of issues asked for.

Ways to middle-click

• Three-finger click: press the trackpad with three fingers. On by default, free forever.
• Three-finger tap: a light tap, no press. Follows your Tap to Click setting. Also free forever.
• fn+click: hold fn (or any modifier you pick) and click, with any mouse or trackpad.
• Force Click: press deeper, past the click.
• Magic Mouse: two- or three-finger click and tap on the mouse itself (the version from the website).

Plugins, off until you turn them on

• Middle-drag: hold three fingers still and slide to pan and orbit in Blender, Fusion, FreeCAD and Onshape.
• Autoscroll: drop an anchor and move the cursor to scroll, faster the further you go.
• Three-finger swipe: slide up or down for volume or brightness.

Per-app rules

Ignore the app in front with one click, or switch to an allow-list so gestures fire only where you want them.

Built to keep working

macOS quietly switches off event taps it thinks are too slow, which is why gesture tools "just stop working". WheelClick notices and turns itself back on. It works alongside Three Finger Drag, needs only the Accessibility permission, and runs on macOS 12 and later. Every gesture in the menu shows what it costs in energy, measured rather than estimated.

Price

Everything is unlocked for a 14-day trial. After that, three-finger click and tap keep working for free with no account. One purchase of $4.99 unlocks the rest, for good. No subscription.

Get it

• Website and download: wheelclick.app
• Mac App Store: search for "WheelClick: Middle Click"
• Homebrew: brew install --cask wheelclick
• Releases and issues: github.com/artginzburg/WheelClick-Community