ControllerMate
ControllerMate is a controller programming tool that allows you to customize the behavior of your HID devices — keyboards, keypads, mice, trackballs, joysticks, gamepads, throttles, among others. ControllerMate’s philosophy is to be as flexible as possible, to provide a set of...
Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
Last update was October 10, 2018. Support email and developer has been unresponsive, Forum is down. Looks to have been quietly discontinued.
Features
Tags
- input-customization
- Game
- os-utilities
ControllerMate News & Activities
Recent activities
ControllerMate information
Developed by
orderedbytes Licensing
Proprietary and Commercial product.Pricing
One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $0.Alternatives
28 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Category
OS & Utilities
What is ControllerMate?
ControllerMate is a controller programming tool that allows you to customize the behavior of your HID devices — keyboards, keypads, mice, trackballs, joysticks, gamepads, throttles, among others. ControllerMate’s philosophy is to be as flexible as possible, to provide a set of basic programming tools, and to allow the user to combine those tools in an endless variety of ways.
Comments and Reviews
Controller Mate is pretty much my top favorite applications on the mac for the utility it provides at such a great value and how robust it is once you understand how to use it. It is actually fun to play with and figure out due to the building block approach. It is mesmerizing to watch the nodes light up when testing and setting up configurations.
Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, development and support for this application seems to have abrutply stalled. The support forum which was long in the tooth is no more, I have sent multiple emails to support (which I have corresponded with before) and have recieved no response in the last year. It was getting by on MacOS Mojave, but on Catalina it is no longer reliable. ControllerMate constantly crashes, the helper application necessary for things to work constantly quits, and now I'm experiencing crashes just opening ControllerMate. I am super bummed out, because I had invested many hours learning how to use it and setting up really neat configurations for my various peripherals, but mainly my 3 button foot controller for transcription/subtitling and video/audio scrubbing purposes which I can no longer use because there isn't anything else out there that comes close to replicating what ControllerMate can do on Mac. On Windows there's Autohotkey (which you have to code), and a few others, but still not nearly as intuitive or as visually based as ControllerMate is working with nodes and properties, groups and pages which can accomplish a lot more than you might think. For example I had a config where pages would activate when a certain application window was in focus/front and turn off when it was not in focus to ensure key-bindings/controls were catered to each specific application and wouldn't do any unintended actions when using other applications. I am so sad this software seems to be losing developer support, it really is an exemplary bit of of software, I had hoped it would see more polish and TLC but it seems to be decaying into obsolescence. I sincerely hope I am wrong and this impressive utility gets revived.
[Edited by adamlogan, August 27]