# BetterTouchTool

25 Hacker News commenters recommended BetterTouchTool and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 9 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Recommended for powerful trackpad, mouse and keyboard customization on macOS; people call it indispensable and worth the price. Caveat: cumbersome UI and missing single-modifier mapping.

## Why people recommend it

- Indispensable and worth paying for (5 comments): "I consider it completely indispensable, and I doubt it would still be in (very) active development today if fans like me weren't paying for it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719804)) "worth the money for me purely for "alt+drag a window from anywhere" style window movement" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715538)) "it's for me an absolutely indispensable app which I'd happily pay more for" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714465))
- Deep customization with many options (5 comments): "it allows me to combine key presses with mouse gestures/movements" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49358558)) "it was customizable to be super useful with better touch tool" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849944)) "I'm still quite often amazed by BTT's capabilities" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360053))
- Window movement and Spaces switching (4 comments): "One advantage of BTT's current implementation is that it still allows you to move windows to the next/previous space while dragging them" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716822)) "worth the money for me purely for "alt+drag a window from anywhere" style window movement" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715538)) "I found out that BetterTouchTool - which I am already using - has this feature" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714958))
- Works well, life-changing for users (4 comments): "Strongly recommend getting BetterTouchTool for this - changed my life." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581426)) "I am incredibly happy with my setup." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46619336)) "it has been working great for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47370480))

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- [keyd](https://hackerapproved.com/p/keyd.md): 19 recommend
- [Toshy](https://hackerapproved.com/p/toshy.md): 6 recommend
- [Kanata](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kanata.md): 5 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://folivora.ai/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "BetterTouchTool", https://hackerapproved.com/p/bettertouchtool/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).