1 Glide into a zone
Any of the 8 screen edges and corners — space your cursor crosses all day anyway.
Version 1.0 · macOS 13+ · menu-bar utility
Every corner of your screen is a shortcut.
MouseGestures turns flicks to your screen's edges and corners — layered with mouse buttons and modifier keys — into instant actions. Snap windows, run scripts, control media, fire Shortcuts. 54 built-in actions, and your hand never leaves the mouse.
Free download · 30-day full-feature trial, no account · macOS 13 Ventura or later, Apple silicon
Try it: flick your cursor into any labeled corner or edge, and switch profiles above. Hold ⇧ for a zone's second layer. In the real app, your whole screen is the canvas.
54
Built-in actions
8
Trigger zones — every corner & edge
30
Day full-feature trial — no account
$9.99
Pro, once — no subscription
Zones layer with ⌘ ⌥ ⌃ ⇧, spare mouse buttons, and global hotkeys — one profile holds hundreds of distinct gestures, and App Profiles switch with the app in front.
Three steps to zero friction.
A gesture is just a place, a trigger, and an action — and your cursor already travels through the place.
2 Hold a modifier
⌘ ⌥ ⌃ ⇧ — alone or in any combination. Fifteen distinct layers per zone.
3 It fires. Instantly.
The action executes the moment you arrive. No click, no menu, no waiting.
Zones are just the start — three more ways to fire anything:
Mouse buttons
Back, forward, middle — map any spare button to any action.
Keyboard shortcuts
Every action can also live on a global hotkey.
App Profiles
Your gesture set swaps automatically with the frontmost app.
54 actions, six categories, every one configurable.
Everything below ships in the box, and each action exposes its parameters (direction, amount, scope, target) in the app's Settings. Pick a category to jump to it — or grab the ribbon and drag.
Window
Close Window
Minimize
Maximize
Toggle Fullscreen
Snap to Region
Resize to Percent
Grow / Shrink
Set Size
Set Position
Move to Display
Switch to Window
Position Memory
Named Layouts
Tile All
Cascade
Hide App
Quit App
Mission Control
Show Desktop
App Exposé
Cycle Windows
Cycle Spaces
Media
Play / Pause
Next / Previous Track
Volume
Seek
System
Display Brightness
Keyboard Brightness
Toggle Dark Mode
Do Not Disturb
Screenshot
Restart
Shut Down
Log Out
Lock Screen
System Sleep
Sleep Display
Empty Trash
Automation
Keyboard Shortcut
Run Shortcut
Run Script
Open App
Open File
Open URL
Clipboard Actions
Switch Profile
Bundles
Action Sequence
Conditional (If / Else)
Repeat Action
Set Variable
Browser
Browser Navigation
Tab Management
Switch Tab
Browser Zoom
Everything within a flick's reach.
Six categories cover windows, media, system, browser, and full automation — and every action is remappable to any gesture.
Window management
Snap to any of 11 screen regions, tile, cascade, and resize by percent or pixel. Save whole named layouts — and restore them with a flick.
Automation & scripting
Run Shortcuts, AppleScript, shell, Python, or JavaScript. Fire keyboard shortcuts, open apps, files, and URLs, or transform the clipboard.
Media, system & browser control
Volume, brightness, playback, dark mode, Do Not Disturb, screenshots, lock, sleep, browser tabs, zoom and navigation — the whole control center, moved to your cursor.
App Profiles
Gesture sets live in profiles that switch automatically with the frontmost app. The same corner can mean one thing in Safari and another in Xcode.
Action bundles
Chain actions into sequences or run them in parallel, branch on conditions, repeat, add delays — one gesture can run a whole routine.
Plugins, all the way down
Detection, actions, UI, and services are all plugins behind one protocol — external .plugin bundles install exactly like the built-ins.
Quiet by design.
No account, no cloud, no eyes on you.
No account. No subscription.
Pro is a license key that validates entirely offline. Nothing to sign up for, nothing recurring, nothing to cancel.
Your data stays on your Mac
No analytics, no telemetry, no tracking. We never see your data, so we can't sell it — the app's only network call is an optional update check.
No third-party code
Built purely on Apple's system frameworks — no bundled SDKs, no ad libraries, nothing quietly phoning home.
Two permissions, explained
It asks for Accessibility (to see your gestures) and Automation (to drive system actions) — the two permissions that make it work, and the only ones it requests.
One price. Forever.
Every download starts a 30-day full-feature Pro trial — no account, no card. When it ends, Free keeps working.
Free
$0
Yours forever, no strings
- Core window & system actions
- All trigger types — zones, mouse buttons, hotkeys
- One gesture profile
- 30-day full Pro trial included
Recommended
Pro
$9.99 one-time
An offline license key — no subscription, no account
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Unlimited gesture profiles
- App Profiles — switch automatically with the app in front
- Advanced automation & scripting actions
- Action bundles — sequences, conditions, repeats
The trial is in the download — Pro unlocks the moment you launch. License sales open soon.
Questions, answered.
Which Macs does it run on?
macOS 13 Ventura or later, on Apple silicon — Intel Macs aren't supported. The app lives in the menu bar: no Dock icon, no clutter.
Why does it need Accessibility and Automation permissions?
Accessibility lets it watch mouse and keyboard input so gestures can be recognized system-wide; Automation lets it drive actions like volume, brightness, and controlling other apps. macOS asks for both on first run — grant them in System Settings → Privacy & Security. Without them, gestures simply do nothing.
Is the download safe to open?
Yes — the DMG is signed with an Apple Developer ID certificate, built with the hardened runtime, and notarized by Apple, so Gatekeeper verifies it on first launch and it opens right up.
What happens when the 30-day trial ends?
The app keeps working on the Free tier: the core action set and one profile. Your gestures and settings stay put, and upgrading to Pro later re-unlocks everything exactly as you left it.
Will it conflict with Rectangle, Raycast, or BetterTouchTool?
They coexist fine. MouseGestures only acts when one of its configured triggers fires — a zone-plus-modifier combination, a mapped mouse button, or a hotkey — so as long as your triggers don't overlap with another tool's, they stay out of each other's way.
Why isn't it on the Mac App Store?
The Accessibility access a gesture app needs doesn't fit inside the App Store sandbox. MouseGestures ships as a notarized direct download instead — and that's also why Pro uses a simple offline license key rather than an in-app purchase.
Your cursor is already halfway there.
One small DMG. Thirty days of everything. No account, no card, no noise.
Download MouseGesturesVersion 1.0 · macOS 13+ · Apple silicon
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