Teach your trackpad new tricks.
Knack gives your Mac custom gestures, shortcuts, drawn shapes and window snapping. It has eight arms, so you can keep your hands where they are.
Free for 45 days, no card and no account. Then $14.99 once. Needs macOS 13 or later.
Five ways to trigger anything.
Pick a trigger, pick what it does, and choose whether it works everywhere or only in one app.
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Trackpad gestures
Taps, swipes and clicks with three, four or five fingers. Tip-taps too: rest one finger and tap another beside it.
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⌃⌥⌘K
Keyboard shortcuts
Record any key combination by pressing it. Works across every app, or just the one you choose.
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Mouse buttons
Give the middle button and the side buttons a job, like Mission Control or going back.
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Drawings
Sketch a shape once. Later, hold two modifier keys and draw it anywhere on screen to run its action.
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Window snapping
Drag a window to a screen edge for a half, a corner for a quarter, or the top to maximize. A preview shows where it will land.
And plenty for each one to do.
Do the same placement twice and the window goes back to where it was.
- Move windows. Halves, quarters, thirds, two thirds, maximize, center, or the next display.
- Run system actions. Mission Control, show desktop, lock screen, play and pause, volume, middle click.
- Press keys for you. Turn a gesture into any shortcut an app already has.
- Open things. An app, a web address, or a shell command.
- Per app. The same gesture can do one thing in your browser and another in your editor.
It stays on your Mac.
Knack has no account, no analytics and no crash reporting.
What it sees
With the Accessibility permission you grant, it sees key presses, mouse buttons and trackpad touches, only to match them against your own rules. They are checked in memory and never stored.
What it stores
Your rules and settings, in a file on your Mac that you can open and back up.
What leaves your Mac
During the trial, nothing. With a license, only the license key, sent to Dodo Payments to activate it and about once a week to check it.
Try all of it first. Pay once if you keep it.
Knack
$14.99 once, after a 45-day free trial
- Every feature during the trial. No card and no account.
- One payment. No subscription.
- One Mac at a time. Deactivate in the app to move it.
- Works offline. Checks the license about once a week when you are online.
When you buy, your download and license key arrive right after you pay. After 45 days without a license, Knack pauses and keeps your settings.
Price in US dollars, tax included. Refund within 7 days of your payment: email [email protected]. Payments are handled by Dodo Payments as merchant of record.
Questions, answered.
Will it run on my Mac?
Knack needs macOS 13 or later and runs on Apple silicon and Intel Macs. Trackpad gestures need a built-in trackpad or a Magic Trackpad.
What happens after the 45 days?
Knack pauses: gestures, shortcuts and snapping stop until you enter a license key. Your settings are kept and come back the moment you activate.
Is it a subscription?
No. It is $14.99 once, tax included, for one Mac at a time. You can move the license to another Mac by deactivating it in the app.
Does it need the internet?
The trial never goes online. A license needs a connection once, to activate, then checks about once a week when you are online and keeps working offline.
Why does it ask for Accessibility access?
macOS only lets an app respond to global shortcuts and move other apps' windows with that permission. Knack uses it for those two things and nothing else.
Will it clash with the gestures macOS already has?
It can. A three or four finger swipe also triggers Mission Control or switches Spaces unless you turn those off in System Settings, under Trackpad. Taps, clicks and tip-taps are usually free.
Why is it not on the Mac App Store?
App Store apps run in a sandbox that blocks the Accessibility access Knack depends on. The download is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens like any other app.
