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WheelClick

Middle click for the Mac trackpad: three-finger click or tap, free forever, plus fn+click, Force Click, middle-drag for CAD, autoscroll and per-app rules as a one-time purchase, from the maintainer of MiddleClick.

The whole app is a menu bar menu: four middle-click gestures, each with a measured energy dot.

Cost / License

  • Freemium (Pay once)
  • Proprietary

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac  Requires macOS 13 (Ventura) or later. Magic Mouse touch gestures are in the direct download only: the Mac App Store build is sandboxed and cannot read the mouse's touches. fn+click works with any mouse in both builds, and an App Store purchase can be moved to the direct build at no cost.
  • Homebrew  brew install artginzburg/tap/wheelclick
Every row opens a card that explains the gesture and shows what it costs, measured on real hardware.
The Middle-Drag plugin holds a middle-button drag system-wide, so Blender, Fusion, Unity and any app that pans or orbits with the middle button just work.
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The welcome tour's playground: try three-finger click, fn+click and three-finger tap on mock tabs before trusting them.
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Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  No registration required
  2.  Works Offline
  3.  Support for Gestures
  4.  Auto Scrolling
  5.  Mouse Remapping

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WheelClick information

  • Developed by

    Arthur Ginzburg

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.

  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $5 + free version with limited functionality.

  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
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What is WheelClick?

Your Mac has no middle button. WheelClick adds one: press or tap the trackpad with three fingers, hold fn and click with any mouse, or Force Click. It works system-wide: links open in new tabs, tabs close, and 3D and CAD apps pan and orbit.

Three-finger click and tap are free permanently, no account needed. A one-time purchase, after a 14-day trial, unlocks fn+click, Force Click, Magic Mouse gestures, per-app allow and ignore lists, and three opt-in plugins: Middle-Drag for panning and orbiting in any app that uses the middle button (Blender, Fusion, Unity and the rest), system-wide autoscroll, and three-finger swipes for volume and brightness.

WheelClick is the successor to MiddleClick, the free GPL-3.0 app its developer maintained from 2019. It is a separate closed-source codebase rebuilt from the ground up, not a renamed build: MiddleClick never had fn+click, Force Click, Middle-Drag, autoscroll or swipes, and it stays free and unchanged on its own repository.

The whole app is one menu bar menu. It re-arms its event taps when macOS silently disables them, works alongside Three Finger Drag, and shows each gesture's measured energy cost beside its row. Requires macOS 13 or later. On the Mac App Store, as a notarized download and through Homebrew; Magic Mouse gestures are direct-download only, a limit of the App Store sandbox.