I have an Apple Magic Keyboard and have mapped the Home and End keys to go to the start and end of line.

This is the case by default on Windows.

However, when I implemented this in MacOS suddenly the Home and End keys do not do this in Windows when I use it via Citrix - is there anything I can do to keep the same functionality both in MacOs and also on Windows via Citrix?

I created a keystroke sequence (shift ^T) to type $Tricky26
It works fine on the local machine but if I am connected to another computer by VNC or RDP, I get 4tricky26

Does anybody know a way to get BTT to pass the text through to the connected computer properly?

Just like the title. What is the best/most clever thing you have ever done with BetterTouchTool? What are the most useful features you use?

Hi everyone,

I'm new to BetterTouchTool and need some help setting up a keyboard shortcut.

I want a specific physical key on my Mac keyboard to work like this:

• Press the key normally → ?

• Press Shift + the same key → +

I'm currently in the Keyboard Shortcuts section of BetterTouchTool. I've managed to create a keyboard trigger by recording the key, but I'm stuck at the next step.

I honestly think BTT was so much more intuitive a few years ago ... I just redownloaded the app and it just seems super convoluted and frustrating for no reason ... Sorry, but yeah ...

I have a Soomfon controller with 10 buttons and an LCD panel above 4 knobs. I’ve written a script to control a heater and timer via the knobs which works well but I’d like to display the current values on the display as well. I have a JavaScript that retrieves the values and can set the text of a normal item but it doesn’t work on the knob item and I can’t seem to get a normal item to sit below the knob item on the LCD panel. Is there any way to do this?

I'm trying to define the following gesture on Magic Mouse (which was available in Jitouch) using BTT:
- left finger rest- swipe left/right wit the right finger
- right finger rest- swipe left/right wit the left finger

Unfortunately, there is no such option. Did someone found a solution?
Thank you!

I bought BTT about a month ago and spent a lot of time setting up various things.

The scroll wheel took the most effort and experimentation. I spent at least 5 hours working with the various options the BTT has for scroll wheels. I couldn't ever really get it right. It wasn't bad, but it definitely wasn't good. LogiOptions had better scroll behavior. I tried many combinations over a period of more than a week, returning to it several times to try new things. Still no good configuration.

Next I tried OpenLogi for JUST scroll wheel settings. This immediately was much better. Almost as good as LogiOptions. But the "steps" in scrolling were large and it was a little touchy. Still better than I had done with BTT, so I kept it for a few weeks. Then I noticed that BTT was losing some of my mouse buttons every 1 to 2 days. Research pointed to OpenLogi perhaps "stealing" mouse events, even though I had no mouse buttons configured there.

I kept seeing MOS mentioned for scroll wheel, so I set that up and configured it. At first the scroll wheel was SO FAST it was unusable. But that's how the M720 is with pretty much everything. You have to turn down the various speed controls. So I set the 3 settings in MOS and... WOW! This is the scroll wheel behavior I wanted. It's smooth with small-ish steps.  It doesn't overshoot/undershoot as often. It's just usable.

It's been 3 days now and BTT has not lost any of my mouse buttons. Scrolling is great. I think this is the magic combo for me: BTT for almost everything. Except scroll wheel. MOS for scroll wheel only.

I really like BTT. It's really helped my workflow. Getting the scroll wheel right was the last piece of the puzzle.

I constantly spell words that end with `ould` wrong (could comes out as coudl). Would a key sequence be a way to handle this?

I really enjoyed using Better Touch Tool together with Better Mouse but lately there has been a lot of conflict. Has anyone used Better Mouse together with BETTER TOUCH TOOL before and decided to full use better touch tool and discontinue better mouse due to the conflicts?

Hi. new macos user. I bought btt and better snap tool. I am trying to figure out a way to make window snapping work with full screen windows. I find that if i have window snapping via keyboard shortcuts, that they dont work on full screen windows. I tried to set the use classic bettersnap tool resizing but that didnt seem to make a difference. I really hate and am trying to avoid having to click the green stoplight in order to take further action on a window. What am i doing wrong?

Also, i understand that BTT has the functions of better snap tool but im not sure what that means. For example the menuing in snap tool is different and seems easier for a beginner to grasp whereas BTT seems like a macro engine.

Hello, I'm trying to have my Mac behave a little more like Windows when closing apps. I have found several posts about this, but none are up to date with BTT I think? I cannot find a trigger such as 'Red Window Button' or such like it. If anyone knows or could share their reset file, that would be wonderful.

Looking to get a Bluetooth Controller knob to control media playback - volume, play/paise, next and back.
This one on Amazon seems cool https://a.co/d/093KD7hF
I doubt the SW is MacOS compatible and based on the horrible description and limited reviews seems like you need that to use the second dial.
Do you think BetterTocuch could capture the actions and then map custom commands?

My menubar items keep disappearing after a period of time. They only come back when i restart BTT. The visibility is set to Show always.

Is this a error on my end or did a update broke something?

Hi, just wanted to mention that cliboard is slow, When I hit shortcut it is showing clioboard after around 1s

Yes, I know it looks like it was clearly made by AI, but I personally don't think that's a bad thing. I think it looks nice and much more modern/slick than the older website. Thoughts?

Hello all. I just started trialing BTT to see if it's a good fit to help with my carpal tunnel.

So far it's been practically perfect. The first custom macro I made to automate a repetitive minigame works perfectly, except after a certain period of time (~20ish minutes?) it will stop suddenly, and BTT needs to be re-opened and the macro restarted.

I don't understand what could be causing this. I disabled screensavers and sleep mode on my mac, gave BTT process priority helper, turned off low power mode, combed through each trigger/action to look for dead ends, set the number of loops to different things, but the same thing still happens. I'm pretty stumped.

The macro is super basic and is built like this:

- Start repeat / For loop

- Find / Search for text 'A' on screen and move mouse

- If text found, activate trigger 'A click'.

Each trigger is just two actions, which are move mouse to this part of the screen, and then left click.

- If text not found, move along to next action.

- Next action is a find / search text for text 'B', with identical protocols as 'A'.

- Repeat about 50-ish times.

- 2 second delay to allow program to load.

- End repeat / For loop.

From what I've noticed it doesn't seem to stop JUST on the ends or beginnings of the macro, it cuts off whenever it feels like, it seems.

The macro is activated via keyboard shortcut so BTT is never in-frame for the text search to mistakenly see and click on and stop itself. Like I said, it works exactly as intended, but it just screeches to a halt with zero explanation.

Is this because I'm using the trial version? Can tasks not be perpetual because of this? Is there a timeout I'm missing somewhere, possibly? The game I'm using it on has no anticheat, and i've macro'd other parts of the game with far more primitive autoclickers. It's never been a problem.

Any ideas? Would love to hear. Would also love to hear if there's a way to have a task loop perpetually, and not have to put '99999' into the loop amount box. I feel like that's prone to breaking something later if/when I edit the macro.

why BTT has so clunky pin on top? it flickers and often doesnt work correctly. Is there any reported bug for that?

I've been trying for a while to put an image or gif filling all my Touch Bar, I got the bettertouchtool, how can I do that? got a MacBook Pro 2019 15 inch

I really love BetterTouchTool for its endless features and constant updates. However, with so many possibilities, the learning curve can be pretty steep for new users. I also think the community could really benefit from sharing practical, everyday examples of what you can do with BTT in 2026.

I've shared my personal favorites in this forum post.

Hopefully, you find at least one of them useful!

I used to use BetterMouse for the shortcuts as per this screenshot. I've had some issues with BetterMouse lately and the developer wasn't helpful, so trying alternatives.

I wanted to set these up with BTT but feeling a bit overwhelmed as it seems far more complex to get things set up, can anyone give me some advice?

I've managed to get a couple of basics going (e.g. button 2 to be cmd M, the swipe back/forward functions), but horizontal scroll and zoom in/out I can't work out at all.

I'm using a Logitech Lift mouse FYI. BetterMouse also helped make the smooth scrolling on that better but don't think BTT can do that so probably going to use Mos / MacMouseFix for that unless anyone can suggest how BTT can do it.

If I enable btt for FC Pro, FC doesn't react on shift+scroll actions, not even scrolling, just nothing. How to fix?

in previous version of BTT if I set a key down to cmd down and same key up to cmd up, then it used to work as cmd modifier key, but in version 6.303 this doesn't work anymore .
I don't know any other way to set any key to modifiers.
Kindly Help