Download DiscreteScroll 0.1.1 (Mac) – Download Free

Mac users have been having issues with scrolling acceleration for non-Apple mice for some time, as it doesn’t work as expected, scrolling one line at a time when spinning the wheel slowly.

Instead, the default behavior in macOS is to apply an immediate acceleration to the scrolling action, causing everything in the scrolling area to blaze, instead of scrolling slowly and steadily line by line.

Prevent automatic scrolling acceleration for non-Apple mice

In the years since OS X 10.9 was released, Mac users with non-Apple mice have been reporting that they have this exact problem.

Thankfully, there is now a solution: open source discrete scrolling Apps that run in the background and throw a simple event click to prevent auto-acceleration behavior.

From the DiscreteScroll download area, you can get three different versions of the application, capable of scrolling one, two or three lines each time the mouse wheel is rolled.

Open source and easy to customize to meet any specific needs

Also, if you have the necessary expertise, you can edit the application’s source code and modify it to scroll as many lines as you want, in case the available options are not suitable.

DiscreteScroll is a faceless application that always runs in the background and makes sure your mouse works properly. It starts working as soon as it starts up, and you can make sure it’s there by opening the Activity Monitor app and searching for it.

It’s worth mentioning that it doesn’t affect how the Mac trackpad works, since it’s not a non-continuous scrolling device like a mouse.

Enables you to fix annoying scroll wheel acceleration in macOS for all non-Apple mice

Overall, DiscreteScroll works as advertised, removing the annoying scroll acceleration “feature” behavior, but it would benefit from a small menu bar item or preference panel that would provide the user with the ability to automatically launch the app at login and an option to disable it when needed.

On the other hand, you can also set DiscreteScroll to start itself on system load by adding it to the Login Items list in the Users & Groups System Preferences pane.