Center Click.
Four fingers, anywhere on the trackpad, become a middle click. Open links in background tabs, close tabs, trigger any middle-click action in any app on macOS.
- 1Rest 4 fingers
- 2Tap together
- 3Middle click
One tap, system-wide.
Public macOS APIs only. A listen-only CGEventTap classifies the gesture; CGEvent synthesizes the middle click. The event is indistinguishable from a physical middle mouse click. Works in every app.
Lives in the menu bar. Disappears after setup.
LSUIElement background agent. No Dock icon, no app switcher entry. Launch-at-login is one toggle. Hide the menu bar icon entirely if you want the app to vanish; reopen Preferences from Finder.
No app data leaves your Mac.
No analytics, no telemetry, no network access. Configuration lives in UserDefaults. Local diagnostics stay on your Mac and do not contain keystrokes, screen contents, or gesture contents. The privacy policy says exactly what is stored.
Three or four fingers. You pick.
Default is four fingers; switch to three in Preferences. Stationary-tap classification with a configurable threshold. Escape hatch when the icon is hidden: relaunching from Finder opens Preferences on the running instance.
One permission. Said out loud.
macOS will ask once for Accessibility access. Center Click uses it to process trackpad gesture events on-device; it does not read on-screen text, log keystrokes, record gesture contents, or transmit input data. The prompt is normal for utilities of this kind.
§ Tech · what to know before you install
- Requirements
- macOS 13 Ventura or later · Apple Silicon or Intel Mac with a Force Touch trackpad.
- Permissions
- Accessibility, prompted on first launch. Used to process trackpad gesture events locally for the CGEventTap.
- Distribution
- Mac App Store, $4.99. One-time. No subscription, no trial, no in-app purchase. Refunds are handled by Apple under the App Store refund policy.
- Privacy
- No personal data collection. Local settings and diagnostics are covered in the privacy policy.
- Updates
- Through the App Store. Changelog is published at seryn.dev/changelog.
- Support
- Use Seryn support. Response usually within two business days.
Buy once.
Yours, forever.
No account, nothing to lose access to. When Center Click ships it is a one-time $4.99 App Store purchase: install on every Mac you own, redownload as often as you like.
Once you own it, the binary you install keeps working even if Apple stops selling it later. Local install, local config, no remote kill switch.