Middle Mac 1.5.19 – Download

If you’re a central click fan, a Mac’s trackpad or the Magic Mouse might not be your best friend. While the functionality offered by the middle mouse button can easily be replaced by other actions, users accustomed to clicking a scroll wheel will find the transition to another device quite difficult.

Middle, an app with a self-explanatory name, makes your laptop trackpad and Magic Mouse a little more versatile. With one of the four actions, you will be able to trigger a middle click as if you were using a regular mouse.

Upgrade your trackpad and Magic Mouse

So you’ve bought a brand new MacBook and are trying to get used to its fantastic trackpad. But there is a catch – how do you open a link in a new tab or close a tab without finding the close button? How do you pan through CAD software? You would normally use a middle click for this, but a scroll wheel nowhere.

The same goes for the Magic Mouse, with its distinctly smooth surface and no wheel. Fortunately, since these devices support a wide range of gestures, it’s possible that one of them will trigger the middle click you love so much.

Several ways to simulate a middle click

If you use both a trackpad and a Magic Mouse, you’ll be happy to know that they can be configured separately.

On a trackpad, you can use a three-finger click, three-finger tap, four-finger tap, or force one-finger tap to simulate a middle click. On a Magic Mouse, there are similar options – a middle finger click, two finger click, three finger click, and finally, three finger click.

If you want something totally different, you can set the app to simulate a middle click every time you hold the key. fn and click the left mouse button. It will take some getting used to, but this method might be preferable for some.

Ignore some apps

If the gestures you use for the center click conflict with certain apps, you have the option to turn the middle off when a specific app is highlighted. However, you cannot see the list of ignored apps, so you need to check them one by one if you can’t remember which ones were marked as such.

There are other apps, some even free, that attempt to make the middle click possible on devices without a scroll wheel, but this particular app offers way more features than most. Especially when it comes to the customization options, Middle is better than any alternatives I’ve come across.

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