Comparison
WheelClick vs MiddleTouch
MiddleTouch is Middle’s Mac App Store edition: $4.99, no trial, macOS 10.15 and later, no Magic Mouse touch gestures. WheelClick is on the App Store at $4.99 too, with a 14-day trial and trackpad three-finger click and tap free forever; its direct build adds Magic Mouse gestures. On macOS 10.15 to 12, only MiddleTouch of the two runs.
macOS understands a middle click everywhere, but Apple’s trackpads and the Magic Mouse have no way to make one, and macOS has never had the autoscroll Windows and Linux users take for granted. Anyone who switches platforms with that muscle memory ends up looking for an app. WheelClick and MiddleTouch are two independent answers to that same gap, built by different developers with different approaches; neither is a copy of the other. Below is an honest, attribute-by-attribute comparison so you can pick the one that fits how you work.
MiddleTouch is by Ryan Hanson (the developer of Rectangle) — its site is here. MiddleTouch is the Mac App Store edition of Ryan Hanson’s middle-click work: the same trackpad gestures as his app Middle, at a lower price. Because App Store sandboxing blocks the private framework Magic Mouse touch data requires, it is trackpad-only for gestures, and its own listing points Magic Mouse owners at Middle instead — which is to its credit.
Side by side
| MiddleTouch | WheelClick | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 one-time | $4.99 one-time Trackpad three-finger click & tap free forever |
| License | Closed source | Closed source |
| Free trial | No | 14 days No account needed |
| Free tier | No Paid, and no trial either | Free tier Three-finger click and tap, permanently — no account, no countdown |
| macOS support | macOS 10.15 (Catalina) and later | macOS 12 (Monterey) and later |
| Input method | Not documented Not stated. Being an App Store build, it is sandboxed | Public Accessibility API (CGEventTap) One exception: Magic Mouse touches, which no public API exposes. Those come from a separate unsandboxed helper, in the direct build only |
| Trackpad | Yes | Yes |
| Magic Mouse | No No touch gestures on it — but its own listing says fn+click works with any mouse | Yes Paid — touch gestures in the direct build; fn+click everywhere |
| Middle-click-drag | Not documented | Yes Opt-in Middle-Drag plugin for CAD, plus a configurable modifier-key + click (paid) |
| Autoscroll | Not documented | Yes System-wide, opt-in (paid) |
| Swipe gestures | No | Yes Three-finger swipes (paid) |
| Per-app rules | Not documented | Yes Per-app allow and ignore lists (paid) |
| Where bugs go | Public issue tracker rxhanson/Middle-Community on GitHub, which carries MiddleTouch issues too | Public issue tracker WheelClick-Community on GitHub |
| Last release | 1.13, 11 June 2026 Its App Store listing | 1.1.10, 17 October 2026 GitHub Releases |
| Distribution | Mac App Store | Mac App Store, direct download, Homebrew Magic Mouse gestures come with the direct download: the App Store sandbox hides the mouse’s touches from every app |
| Maintenance | Active | Active Three releases in September 2026 |
Cells marked “Not documented” mean MiddleTouch’s own materials don’t state it either way — we would rather leave a blank than publish a guess about someone else’s app. Every cell was re-verified against MiddleTouch’s own current materials on 31 August 2026; if something has gone stale since, tell us and it gets fixed. Comparing more than one alternative? See the full comparison — WheelClick and every middle-click app in one table.
Which one fits you
Pick MiddleTouch if your Mac runs macOS 10.15 or 11 — WheelClick starts at macOS 12. Installing from the App Store is no longer the deciding factor it was: WheelClick is on the App Store too, at the same price, and both App Store builds are in the same sandbox, so Magic Mouse touches come only with WheelClick’s direct download.
Pick WheelClick if you use a Magic Mouse, want autoscroll or middle-click-drag, want to try before buying (MiddleTouch has no trial), or want the two core trackpad gestures free forever rather than paid.
Either way you end up with a middle click your Mac should arguably have shipped with — see why macOS never did.
Three-finger click and tap on the trackpad are free forever — no trial needed for those.
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