Native-feeling Mac trackpad gestures

jitouch-arm64

Jitouch rebuilt for Apple Silicon and repackaged as a simple drag-to-Applications app. The goal is not to turn it into a giant automation suite; the goal is to preserve the tactile, forgiving gesture engine that made it feel so fast.

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arm64 + x86_64 Universal app
1.9 MB Installed app size on test Mac
319 KB Main executable size

Why it still feels different

Small, raw, and hand-shaped

Raw touch contacts

Jitouch listens to Apple's private MultitouchSupport contact stream and applies its own recognizers instead of treating every gesture as a generic trigger.

Forgiving posture

The original gesture model tolerates rotated hand placement and filters resting thumb or palm-like contacts before matching gestures.

One-Fix gestures

Gestures like One-Fix Left-Tap and One-Fix Right-Tap are first-class interactions, which is why they feel more natural than approximations in broader tools.

Measured on the migration Mac

Jitouch vs a general automation tool

Area jitouch-arm64 BetterTouchTool
Primary goal Trackpad and Magic Mouse gestures General macOS automation
App bundle size 1.9 MB 184 MB
Main executable 319 KB 98 MB
Linked-library listing 28 otool lines 236 otool lines
Gesture philosophy Purpose-built recognizers Broad trigger/action platform

Install

Drag, open, allow Accessibility

  1. Download the DMG from GitHub Releases.
  2. Drag Jitouch.app to Applications.
  3. Open it once; it writes its own LaunchAgent for login startup.
  4. Grant Accessibility permission in macOS Privacy & Security.

The final package keeps only one runtime app. The embedded preference pane is used for settings and does not contain another runnable Jitouch copy.

Current builds are ad-hoc signed and not notarized, so macOS may require manual approval on first launch.

Migration notes and the story behind the port are published on AIYA.