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.
The middle click it gave you — three-finger click and three-finger tap — is free in WheelClick, permanently.
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.
Three-finger click and tap are free forever; the additions get a 14-day trial. Same app on every channel — pick your favorite way to install.
Free
$0
Forever, on every channel. No account, no nag.
The middle click MiddleClick gave you.
WheelClick
$9.99
One payment, no subscription. 14-day trial.
Apple Pay at checkout
For reference, a middle click elsewhere: Middle $8 · MiddleTouch $4.99 · Multitouch $16 · BetterTouchTool from $15
No — and it costs you one gesture, not the app. While Three Finger Drag is on, the three-finger click steps aside instead of fighting the OS, so nothing double-fires; fn+Click, Force Click and the Magic Mouse gestures are unaffected. The menu row says so and links you straight to the system setting.
Three-finger click and three-finger tap keep working — free forever, with no account and no nag. Those are the two gestures MiddleClick existed for, and they never expire. What stops is what WheelClick added on top: fn+Click, Force Click, Magic Mouse, the plugins (Middle-Drag, Autoscroll, Three-Finger Swipe) and per-app rules. $9.99 once, no subscription, unlocks those permanently.
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.
It stays free, stays GPL-3.0, and brew install --cask middleclick keeps working — nothing removed, no nags, no telemetry. It is finished rather than withdrawn: no new features, because the work went into WheelClick instead. The middle click it gave you is free here, permanently. What stays free →
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.
