Tap to click
Tap the surface lightly instead of pressing the mouse down. A tap on the right side can right-click. Taps while you scroll or grip the mouse don't count.
Every click is also
a tiny swipe.
The Magic Mouse's entire top shell is a touch surface — and it stays live while you click. You press down, your finger rolls half a millimetre, and the page jumps. Drag a window and the document scrolls out from under it. Click a link and the link moves first.
macOS has no setting for this. CalmMouse is that setting. It ignores Magic Mouse scrolling while you're clicking, and for a split second after, so the page stays put.
Everything else
it fixes.
Everything applies only to the Magic Mouse. CalmMouse identifies the physical device behind every event, so your trackpad and any other mouse pass through untouched.
Drag without holding the button
Tap twice and move, or rest two fingers and hold. CalmMouse keeps the button pressed for you and lets go when you lift your finger.
Start from a preset
Pick Just fix clicking, Extra steady, or Trackpad feel and you're done in one click. Change anything later, or save your own.
Different rules per app
Turn scrolling off in Figma, or block sideways scroll in Excel. Settings switch with whichever app is in front.
Scroll in straight lines
Scrolling stays vertical or horizontal, never diagonal.
Ignore tiny nudges
A finger resting on the mouse can't move the page.
Stop the glide
Turn off coasting after a flick, on this mouse only.
Scroll with a key held
⌘, ⌥, ⌃, or ⇧ plus scroll can go sideways, invert, or zoom.
Battery warning
A heads-up before the mouse dies mid-afternoon.
Tap zone
Only the front of the surface accepts taps, so gripping fingers can't click.
The first launch walks you through setup once, and shows the accidental scrolls it just caught while you try it. After that, CalmMouse stays out of the way in the menu bar.
You won't need a manual.
Every setting is written in normal words, and if you're not sure what one does, hover over it and a short animation shows you. The settings you change most often sit in the menu bar. If you'd rather not touch settings at all, pick a preset and you're done.
General
Presets
Scrolling
Clicking
Apps
Shortcuts
Battery
Enable CalmMouse
Launch at login
New here? The tour covers permission, presets and a try-out.
Show Welcome Tour…
Updates
CalmMouse 1.0.0Check for Updates
Checked automatically twice a day. Updates install right here — no browser, no unzipping, no dragging.
Permission
✓ Accessibility access granted.
General
Presets
Scrolling
Clicking
Apps
Shortcuts
Battery
Starting points
One click sets everything on the Scrolling and Clicking tabs. Tweak whatever you like afterwards — a preset is a starting point, not a mode.
Just fix clicking
Pages hold still while you click. Everything else stays the way macOS made it.
✓ In use
Extra steady
Small nudges are ignored, scrolling sticks to straight lines, and the page stops the moment your finger does.
Use
Trackpad feel
A light tap clicks, a tap on the right side right-clicks, and tap-then-drag moves things.
Use
Your presets
Preset name
Save Current Settings
Saves how the Scrolling and Clicking tabs are set right now. Saving with an existing name updates that preset.
Nothing leaves your Mac.
CalmMouse asks for one macOS permission, called Accessibility. That's what lets an app see and adjust mouse input, and it's all CalmMouse uses it for.
- No keystrokes It never watches the keyboard or what you type.
- No internet It never connects to anything. Nothing is sent, ever.
- No collected data It stores nothing except your own settings.
- Open source The code is public on GitHub, so you can check all of this yourself.
Free. As in actually free.
No trial, no license key, no email. Download it, drag it in, done.
Requires macOS 13 or later and a Magic Mouse.
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1
Unzip & drag to Applications.
You get
CalmMouse.app— drop it in/Applications. -
2
Open it. No warnings.
Releases are signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so CalmMouse opens like any other app.
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3
Turn on Accessibility access.
Open CalmMouse and it walks you to the right switch in System Settings. It starts working within two seconds, no relaunch needed.
- Will it affect my trackpad? No. It only changes the Magic Mouse. Every other device works as before.
- What do I need? A Mac on macOS 13 or later, and a Magic Mouse.
- Is it really free? Yes. No trial, no account, and the code is open source.
- How do updates work? CalmMouse tells you when a new version is out and installs it in one click.
Prefer to build from source? git clone the
repo
and run ./install.sh.
What's new
CalmMouse keeps itself up to date: when a new version is out, it tells you, and one click in Settings installs it.
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One point oh
The developer scaffolding is gone: no more status file rewritten every two seconds (diagnostics are now produced only when asked for), and the hidden debug switches are retired. What's left is just the app.
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CalmMouse speaks Chinese
The whole app — menu bar, settings, welcome tour — now comes in 简体中文 and 繁體中文, following your Mac's language setting automatically. English stays the default everywhere else.
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Tap to right-click, and updates that install themselves
Tapping learns the right button: a tap on the right side of the surface right-clicks — the same side a physical right click uses — or switch it to a double-tap instead. The Trackpad feel preset now includes it. And CalmMouse now tells you when a new version is out and installs it from inside the app.
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Presets and a welcome tour
Three one-click starting points — Just fix clicking, Extra steady, Trackpad feel — plus your own saved setups, and a first-launch tour that walks through the permission, a preset, and a live try-out.
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Godmouse becomes CalmMouse
New name, new icon, settings rewritten in plain English with animated hover previews — and the whole "scrolling stops working" family of bugs fixed.
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Gestures on the surface
Tap to click, tap and drag, two-finger drag, and a tap zone that keeps gripping fingers from clicking. All off by default.
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The headline fix
No more scrolling while you click — plus dead zone, axis lock, momentum control, per-app rules and modifier shortcuts.
Every detail lives in the full release notes.