InputConfig: Controller to Keyboard and Mouse for Mac

Tap the Mac

Your MacBook has a motion sensor in it. InputConfig listens to that sensor, so two knocks on the palm rest fire one output and three knocks fire another. It is the only input in the app that needs nothing plugged in at all.

The emergency stop

One action that only ever stops. It halts the engine, releases every held key, button, and note, and gives the pointer back. A system-wide shortcut, a two-second hold on Home, PS, or Guide, and a menu bar button all reach it. The controller hold works no matter what the active preset maps that button to, so a preset cannot map away the way out of itself.

Chords

A binding can now require a second button held. Triangle plus D-pad up runs a macro while D-pad up on its own keeps its normal job, so one physical control does two things. On a controller where only a few buttons are reachable, that matters.

Per-preset shortcuts

Any preset can have its own system-wide key that switches straight to it, and pressing that key again stops it. One key for the desktop, one for the browser, one for the game.

Gyro ratcheting

Motion aim runs out of wrist. Pause Motion While Held stops motion from feeding the cursor while a button is down, so you can swing the controller back to a comfortable angle and carry on, the way you lift a mouse off the desk.

Dictation, Zoom, and Speak Selection

These used to mean reconstructing a system key combination by hand. They are now first-class outputs in their own Accessibility group, alongside Zoom In, Zoom Out, and Zoom On or Off. Start Dictation presses the dictation key itself.

Read the full release notes for every version back to 1.0.

What it reads

• Every button, trigger, stick, and D-pad on any MFi or HID-compatible gamepad, with no drivers.
• The DualSense Edge's back paddles, both FN buttons, and the mute button, over USB and Bluetooth.
• Controller touchpads, with per-pad calibration, tap regions, and two fingers tracked independently.
• Gyroscope, accelerometer, and attitude on controllers whose motion sensors macOS exposes.
• MIDI notes, pads, CC knobs, sliders, pedals, the pitch wheel, aftertouch, and Program Change, with no game controller needed alongside.
• Your Mac's own keyboard, a second keyboard, extra mouse buttons, and Force Touch trackpad pressure.
• Regions of the screen, directional zones on a stick, and a knock on your MacBook's case.

What it sends

• Keyboard keys, including real modifier chords, and whole typed phrases from one press.
• Mouse buttons, analog mouse motion, smooth scrolling, and single scroll steps.
• Macro sequences with custom timing, chord steps that hold one key while tapping others, and interrupt on release.
• MIDI out to a DAW through a virtual port: notes with velocity, CC, pitch bend, Program Change, and transport.
• Spoken phrases and haptic feedback, so you can confirm a press without watching the screen.
• System functions: volume, media keys, brightness, Mission Control, Spotlight, the lock screen, any Siri Shortcut by name, and any app or URL.

How you shape it

• Press Scan and touch the control. It binds the instant you touch it, on a controller, a MIDI device, or your Mac's own keyboard and trackpad.
• Toggle, turbo, repeat counts, hold actions, double-tap actions, and chords, all available on one control at once.
• Inner and outer deadzones with a live plot, axis inversion, three sensitivity curves, and variable sensitivity that scales output speed with how hard you press.
• Thirty-one presets ship with the app, and the Smart Preset Maker builds a tailored one from a library of 458 games, apps, and workflows.
• The Live Visualizer mirrors every connected device in real time, and clicking any control jumps straight to its binding.

The full binding and output reference lists every input and every output by name.