Neverclick: A Free Desktop App to Control Your Mouse Entirely with Your Keyboard
Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard
I built Neverclick to help me recover from repetitive strain injury, allowing you to perform mouse actions using only your keyboard. Leveraging fast, local computer vision, it works across any application on Windows without needing a mouse. The tool is completely free, offline, and requires no powerful GPU, offering features like window switching, multi-selection, and customizable hotkeys via a simple GUI.
"I recovered years ago and I owe it to this software."
HN discussion
- The developer explains that Neverclick uses local computer vision rather than accessibility APIs, which paradoxically runs faster on old hardware and provides superior text bounding boxes for editing.
- Wayland's security architecture prevents applications from hijacking the mouse pointer to dispatch events across windows, making this functionality impossible without explicit compositor support or disabling restrictions.
- Users note that while keyboard navigation works for clicks, many applications fail when focus is lost to the automation tool, causing menus to close or sliders to become unresponsive.
- Critics point out that the app is currently Windows-only with no source code available on GitHub, limiting adoption and transparency compared to existing alternatives like ShortCat or Mouseless.