Middle click.
Done right.
Trackpad and Magic Mouse. Four gestures, a plugin platform, and an energy profile measured in microseconds.
From the maker of MiddleClick · macOS
Trackpad and Magic Mouse. Four gestures, a plugin platform, and an energy profile measured in microseconds.
From the maker of MiddleClick · macOS
From the maker of MiddleClick
WheelClick is the official successor to MiddleClick — the free middle-click standard for the Mac. Not a rename. A ground-up rebuild by the same developer, with everything seven years of feedback asked for.
2,800+
GitHub stars on MiddleClick
7years
of lineage and feedback
10,000+
installs a year via Homebrew
Middle click opens links in new tabs, closes them just as fast, and pans in every CAD app. Your Mac just never had the button. Pick a gesture — or run them all.
Press the trackpad with three fingers. That's it. On by default.
A light tap, no press — it follows your Tap to Click setting.
Hold fn and click — any button, any device. Costs 0.4 µs.
Press deeper, past the click — the middle click hiding inside your trackpad.
Its whole surface already scrolls. Now it middle-clicks — four independent gestures that never touch your trackpad settings.
Gestures that go beyond a middle click — every one opt-in, every one measured.
Pan and orbit in Blender, Fusion, FreeCAD. Hold three fingers still and slide — or hold ⌥ and drag, the exact scheme Blender's own "Emulate 3 Button Mouse" uses.
Slide three fingers up or down to change the volume or the display brightness. A HUD you carry on your fingertips.
The Windows trick macOS never learned: drop an anchor, glide the cursor, and scroll anything — faster the further you go. Click or Esc to stop.
Ignore the frontmost app in one click, or flip to an allow-list. No other focused middle-click tool has per-app control — it's usually locked inside $20 kitchen-sink suites.
WheelClick is meant to run forever, so its energy profile is a feature. Every gesture is measured on real hardware — and rated right in the menu.
0.05 %
CPU at idle — the state it spends its life in
<2 ms
added input latency, worst case — you'll never feel it
40 years
to spend 1% of your battery on fn+Click
Measured 2026-07-19 on an Apple M5, Release build, 120 Hz synthetic gesture storm. Heaviest gesture ≈ the menu bar clock's daily draw; fn+Click, at 0.4 µs per event, draws 322× less than the clock. Ratings ship inside the app.
Reliability is where every gesture tool breaks — seven years of MiddleClick and every competitor's public bug tracker taught us exactly how. WheelClick was engineered around those failures.
macOS quietly disables event taps it distrusts — the classic "it just stopped working" across this whole category. WheelClick catches the signal and revives its taps instantly.
Three Finger Drag on? WheelClick stands down cleanly instead of double-firing — and warns you about conflicts instead of staying silent.
Public APIs only. No kernel extensions, no private frameworks, no Input Monitoring — just the one standard Accessibility grant.
WheelClick
$3.99
One-time purchase. No subscription. Free for 14 days first.
Apple Pay at checkout · or get it on the App Store
For reference, a middle click elsewhere: Middle $8 · MiddleTouch $4.99 · Multitouch $16 · BetterTouchTool from $15
Free for 14 days on every channel — same app, pick your favorite way to install.
No. While Three Finger Drag is on, WheelClick stands down cleanly instead of fighting the OS — nothing double-fires, and fn+Click keeps working. The menu links you straight to the system setting.
WheelClick is its official successor — a ground-up rebuild by the same developer, not a rename. It adds Magic Mouse support, Force Click, a plugins layer, per-app control, measured energy ratings, and an event layer engineered around seven years of the category's known failures.
No, by design. WheelClick's settings model is different, and its defaults are tuned so most people never open a setting. A clean start beats importing old workarounds.
The Middle-Drag plugin holds a middle-button drag for pan and orbit — three fingers held still, or a modifier key + click, the same scheme as Blender's own "Emulate 3 Button Mouse". Works in Blender, Fusion, FreeCAD, OnShape.
Accessibility — the one standard grant every gesture tool requires. No Input Monitoring, no kernel extensions, no private frameworks.
Anonymous gesture counts under a random install ID, submitted once a day — never anything identifying. One switch in About WheelClick turns submission off.
Yes. Magic Mouse gestures are independent toggles that only affect the mouse — the trackpad is untouched.
Open the customer portal and sign in with the email you bought with — a one-time code, no password. Your key is there to copy, and you can free up a Mac you no longer use. It's also in the receipt email from your purchase.
