Just installed Tahoe and Better Touch Tool works fine in the background.
But I can’t seem to open the app UI? Can’t do anything
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I’m having this problem as well. It’s working in the background, but I can’t get the UI to show up at all. It’s especially problematic because I’ve hidden the menu bar and dock icons.
this is already resolved in the latest build, if you need the UI to upgrade you can run this terminal command to open it up:
osascript -e 'tell application "BetterTouchTool" to trigger_action "{BTTPredefinedActionType: 105}"'
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That did the trick. Thank you!
This did not work for me
Downloaded Version 5.634 (2025091705) (and all recent updates since upgrading). When I launch BTT, It runs, but the Settings menu is greyed out. There are no windows.
Using the osascript command brings up the UI, but if I quit BTT and relaunch it, same thing - Settins menu is greyed out.
I tried toggling a few settings to make sure the prefs got updated and quitting and relaunching, but alas, that made no difference in making BTT come out from hiding. Argh.
what do you mean by "settings menu"?
oh this seems to be an item auto-added by macOS, did this ever work? By default BTT preferences can be opened via its menubar icon or by clicking the app icon twice.
I'll check where that settings item is coming from.
It works when I open the settings window via the osascript command….
Ironically, BTT seems to be behaving now…. after I added a keyboard trigger to fire off that AppleScript to open the window… Which is now no longer needed.
One gripe amplified in troubleshooting this with all my quits and relaunches… I wish BTT showed up like a regular app in the “Recent items” menu under the Apple menu.
Also not that a bunch of other stuff is missing in that menu when it’s misbehaving that appears when it’s behaving. This is what I expect. Compare it to the other screenshot.
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And I spoke too soon on it being fixed. It’s inconsistent. Sometimes when I launch it, it behaves, others it goes into it’s hiding mode behavior.
Update:
On the inconsistency… It’s actually consistent in a way.
If I quit BTT using command Q or the menu bar, on the next launch it’s hidden. That menu bar doesn’t fill. No windows to get to.
If I quit BTT by closing the window with the little red close window button, it comes back in a well behaved manner.
I look forward to you obsoleting the need for my keyboard trigger to fire that script 
Unless I misunderstand, that is expected behavior and has always been, it would be crazy to open up the BTT preferences automatically every time you launch BTT.
I can see that, but the menu bar not populating AND allowing access to the Settings to get to that window is the issue. One way it works, the other it doesn’t - in which case I have to use the script tidbit you provided.
Do you have BTT's menubar icon hidden? (The menubar item is the default way to access the settings). If that is hidden the intended way to access the settings is to launch BTT again while it is already running. Alternatively you can set a keyboard shortcut / other trigger and assign the predefined action "Show BetterTouchTool Preferences"
It’s not just that menu - but all the others. They don’t get populated either. When I switch to the app there is literally nothing to get to when it misbehaves. All the menus are devoid of what is normally there.
I can still get to things through the menubar icon. But I usually just go the app. It was really frustrating when the app was showing a red notification dot in the menu bar, but going to the app resulted in not being able to see anything.
I think I might just misunderstand the issue. What is there to not get populated? Basically this icon is the only default UI to access BTT:
Maybe this screen recording will help. You can see initially what I’m trying to describe when going to the app itself. The menus aren’t populated. I used the shortcut I created to run the 'tell application "BetterTouchTool" to trigger_action "{BTTPredefinedActionType: 105}"' command at the ~ 00:10 second mark in the video. You can then see all the menus properly populated.
So what can I do to get UI back?
Do I need yo buy a another version of BTT?