I really love BetterTouchTool for its endless features and constant updates. The only downside I see is that it can feel overwhelming at first. To help with that, I want to share some of my most used presets that I think could be useful in most setups.
Quick Menu
A custom menu bar item with live system info and quick access to useful actions that don't necessarily need a dedicated keyboard shortcut. Heavily inspired by the menu bar item in the Supercharge app.
Download Link:
Quick Menu.bttpresetzip (3.3 MB)
Finder Context Menu
Simple Finder enhancements on right click. Create new files, quick access to file metadata, move items, and other small quality of life actions.
Download Link:
Finder Context Menu.bttpresetzip (297.4 KB)
Finder Context Menu + Media Converter
Same Finder enhancements as above, plus a convenient set of tools for media management. No extra apps, no drag and drop, no waiting for a UI to load, it's great.
Requires ffmpeg for videos and libvips for images. Both can be installed via Homebrew.
Right click any video or image file to:
- Convert images to JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC, or TIFF at maximum or lossless quality
- Convert videos to MP4 H.264, MP4 H.265 hardware, AVI, MOV, MKV AV1, MPG, WebM VP9, or GIF with various quality presets
- Optimize images by re encoding at a custom quality level
- Trim videos
- Crop to fixed ratios
- Extract or remove audio from video files
- Create a collage from multiple images with an auto grid layout
- And more
All outputs are saved alongside the original file. You are also able to select multiple images for batch processing.
Download Link:
Finder Context Menu + Media Converter.bttpreset (1.8 MB)
Paste Stack
Build a stack of copied items and paste them in sequence. You can also split clipboard content by new lines to auto populate the stack.
- ⌘C adds items to the stack
- ⌘V pastes them in order
- The stack clears itself when empty or closed
Download Link:
Paste Stack.bttpresetzip (2.0 MB)
Quick Clipboard
Probably my most used one. A context switching free view of the latest 10 clipboard entries that pops up at the mouse location.
Works best when triggered by a trackpad gesture like a three finger click swipe down.
Download Link:
Quick Clipboard.bttpresetzip (3.4 MB)
Text Conversion Menu
There are many ways to do this in BTT and other apps, but having all text transformations under a single shortcut works great for me. It applies to selected text, or the latest clipboard item if nothing is selected. This preset also includes extras like append to clipboard and paste as plain text in a single paragraph.
Download Link:
Text Conversion.bttpresetzip (561.0 KB)
Copy as MD and RTF Link
My pride and joy, and I did not even come up with it. This is based on a clever trick originally shared on the Keyboard Maestro forum by the legend Rob Trew, recreated here for BTT.
It copies the front window title and URL to the clipboard at the same time as:
- Markdown format → [Title] (url)
- Rich text format → clickable styled link
- If text is selected, it becomes: "selected text" - [Title] (url)
When you paste, it automatically adapts to the app. It works with browsers including Firefox, Finder files, Notes, Spotify songs, Calendar events, and more.
Download Link:
Copy As MD:RTF Link.bttpresetzip (2.1 MB)
That’s it for now. Hopefully at least one of these is useful to you.
PS: Most of these are built using named triggers, which makes it easy to move everything into the new BTT launcher if you prefer.