Crucial utility for any Mac, with or without a trackpad! Though the multi-touch gestures are easily the most used features, the other functions and improvements (such as no-click window resizing just by holding a modifier key) are just fantastic.
It is missing a couple features that would be much appreciated:
- support for more mouse buttons (tilt wheel, middle mouse button, etc., especially on Logitech mice)
- a few more built-in actions, such as previous tab, next tab, etc. (especially if actions are multi-app, instead of limited to keyboard shortcuts, which are not consistent).
excellent application for easy work on a Mac mine BetterTouchTool Gestures:
1.Three Finger Swipe Up
Launch Safari.app 2.Three Finger Swipe Down
Launch LittleSnapper.app 3.Five Finger Touch/Move
Enter fullscreen
4.Four Finger Tap
Close Window Below Cursor (works in Misson Control)
5.Three Finger Tap
Launch TranslatorFree.app
6.TipSwipe Left Finger Down
Mute
7.TipSwipe Left Finger Left
Volume Down
8.TipSwipe Left Finger Right
Volume Up
9.TipSwipe Left Finger Up
Launch Fidelia.app
mmm, it's ok it's a bit superficial in a sense because it can't understand click and drag so you are limited to a few pop up contextual menus. Without being able to convert a regular mouse CLICK AND DRAG + modifier key into say equivalent pinch makes it rather hampered for serious graphic use.
That said I didn't mean to give it so few stars, but Macupdate in their infinite wisdom thought it would be cool to have 1 click only, the first click, that's your lot. Sorry but blame them.
Any time that's happened to me, I close the page before submitting the review with the accidental rating. I then re-open the page and start over. It may be MacUpdate's fault, but I'm not going to punish the developers with improperly poor ratings because of it.
The most wonderful app you'll ever have in history! This is the next step in the future of multigesture touch devices. It's almost relaxing to be able to use just one hand for everything. You can have tons of custom gestures, either by app or over everything. It's really neat that you can backup your gestures too. There is still room for improvement, but you won't notice most of the time. Works Perfectly for Lion (10.7.3).
this app is exactly what i needed!
i completely disabled my trackpad gestures (yes, completely on purpose) so i dont get confused with this app's gestures!! i only use this but have set the Apple defaults to what they were meant to be using this app, so it is a win-win with this; Apple defaults and more!!
Apple like to keep things simple and only give you a "handful" of gestures to use with the Magic Trackpad. This app takes the lid off and gives you access to the Trackpad's full potential, with dozens of swipes and taps that can be assigned to different functions either globally or within specific apps. And since any gesture can be used to trigger a keypress, you can use this in combination with a macro app like Keyboard Maestro to do almost anything with your Trackpad.
CPU usage is light: usually 0.1%, occasionally rising to 0.8%. An amazing utility. I'd hate to be without it.
Simply redefined my experience with magic trackpad and Snow Leopard/Lion. Changes drastically how i use chrome, final cut, photoshop, I can put whatever gestures I want, very easy to use.
Great program!
But sometimes when I want to do double tap to open a link in the background nothing happens. I does not seem to respond. When I click in the background of a page it will work again.
Strange. It has been doing this since every release I had. Version 0.6314
I really like this program, but came across a problem that is a little worrisome. After a couple of days post-installation of BetterTouchTool, I put my computer to sleep and I could not wake it back up. I did a force shut down (hold down power button for more than 3 seconds), then restarted it.
Everything is fine now, but BetterTouchTool won't launch now, so I don't know if BTT caused the problem or was just a victim of an error. I will reinstall BTT and see what happens. I just thought I would post it here in case others have a similar problem.
It seems BTT was running just wouldn't open the preference pane for me. Got everything working again, but some of my settings were off. Seems like everything is good to go. Didn't even need to reinstall, just force quite BTT and relaunched.
Maybe someone can explain how they installed the app or got it working? -- I'm not a Mac newbie by any means, but none of the 10+ versions I d/l'd from this site or the DEV's seem to work..
Is this a stand-alone app? - or a preference pane..?
I've downloaded this file and app from here, and right from DEV's site; it downloads fine.. however, every time I 'open' the app (double click), it does nothing.. kinda like a bunk / corrupted dmg file..
Ironically, I open up Activity Monitor, and see that this app is running in the background, until I manually quit it.. but there's no GUI interface, and +TAB never shows this app as 'running'.. only Activity Monitor sees it..
Basically the app won't fire up.. what gives?
I'm on OS X 10.6.2, MacBookPro 17" 2.8Ghz, 4GB Ram, etc..
Hey guys ! What happened with this latest version ? My default two finger swipe left/right do not work anymore with my Firefox french safari !
Thanks to repair.
Forgetting this, I really like this piece of software !
I think you have to logout and back in or restart your mac. I'm not sure but I think it's a snow leopard bug and is not related to this version of btt.
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Alessandro82 reviewed on 30 Apr 2012
+20
Iaian7 reviewed on 21 Apr 2012
It is missing a couple features that would be much appreciated:
- support for more mouse buttons (tilt wheel, middle mouse button, etc., especially on Logitech mice)
- a few more built-in actions, such as previous tab, next tab, etc. (especially if actions are multi-app, instead of limited to keyboard shortcuts, which are not consistent).
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novalue reviewed on 26 Mar 2012
1.Three Finger Swipe Up
Launch Safari.app 2.Three Finger Swipe Down
Launch LittleSnapper.app 3.Five Finger Touch/Move
Enter fullscreen
4.Four Finger Tap
Close Window Below Cursor (works in Misson Control)
5.Three Finger Tap
Launch TranslatorFree.app
6.TipSwipe Left Finger Down
Mute
7.TipSwipe Left Finger Left
Volume Down
8.TipSwipe Left Finger Right
Volume Up
9.TipSwipe Left Finger Up
Launch Fidelia.app
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David_Evian reviewed on 28 Feb 2012
That said I didn't mean to give it so few stars, but Macupdate in their infinite wisdom thought it would be cool to have 1 click only, the first click, that's your lot. Sorry but blame them.
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Unmei reviewed on 25 Feb 2012
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tyler510 reviewed on 19 Feb 2012
i completely disabled my trackpad gestures (yes, completely on purpose) so i dont get confused with this app's gestures!! i only use this but have set the Apple defaults to what they were meant to be using this app, so it is a win-win with this; Apple defaults and more!!
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Balanchine reviewed on 18 Feb 2012
CPU usage is light: usually 0.1%, occasionally rising to 0.8%. An amazing utility. I'd hate to be without it.
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Leo-Telles reviewed on 04 Feb 2012
If wasn't BTT maybe I would not buy a trackpad.
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Michael_Sebrecht reviewed on 17 Jan 2012
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Using BTT 0.671 on an iMac 21.5", Mac OS X 10.6.7.
Is there a workaround to this issue?
Thanks!
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But sometimes when I want to do double tap to open a link in the background nothing happens. I does not seem to respond. When I click in the background of a page it will work again.
Strange. It has been doing this since every release I had. Version 0.6314
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Everything is fine now, but BetterTouchTool won't launch now, so I don't know if BTT caused the problem or was just a victim of an error. I will reinstall BTT and see what happens. I just thought I would post it here in case others have a similar problem.
I will say that this software is great otherwise!
[Cerebrl]
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is this version already supported?
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Is this a stand-alone app? - or a preference pane..?
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Ironically, I open up Activity Monitor, and see that this app is running in the background, until I manually quit it.. but there's no GUI interface, and +TAB never shows this app as 'running'.. only Activity Monitor sees it..
Basically the app won't fire up.. what gives?
I'm on OS X 10.6.2, MacBookPro 17" 2.8Ghz, 4GB Ram, etc..
Thank you in advance.
+1
Thanks to repair.
Forgetting this, I really like this piece of software !
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sazwqa rated on 08 May 2012
+3
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+5
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+3
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