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.
- AyanamiKaine
Slightly related. On wayland based linux desktops this would never work because an app is not allowed to hijack the mouse pointer to dispatch events. I believe only the compositor is allowed to do that.
I know, because I wanted to automate a GUI task using PyAutoGUI and it wouldnt work on wayland no matter what.
- okeefe77
I understand the app is only installable on Windows, but what is the thinking behind not allowing downloads on non-Windows devices? I was going to save a copy of the installer to my Google Drive from my phone and the download button doesn't work. Seems like an odd choice that could hinder adoption.
(This is partially an assumption on my part as I currently don't have an unrestricted Windows machine to verify, but considering the non-functional button and "download on Windows" message it displays it seemed safe to assume)
- andy55a
This is really nice, great job! I built something similar for myself on MacOS recently. Started off as a window manager then began adding keyboard navigation features as I was unhappy with other tools (vimium, shortcat etc).
Hint mode as a feature being able to click all active links on the screen is great and very useful.
Two features I've added recently that have made never using a mouse much more feasible:
1. Search mode - Search for any text on the page, jump to it and then use vim keybindings to select text from there and copy => I use this 20+ times a day
2. Scroll mode - Any scroll area on the page is highlighted with a hint, but when selected it clicks the scroll area and allows you to use keybindings like j/k/gg/G to scroll up and down. I loved this from vimium and wanted to everywhere
Feel free to steal those :)
- zerr
Developing a muscle memory is the main aspect of keyboard usage. Does this app account for this? i.e. how repeatable are those key-shortcuts? Seems like it's random.
- deviation
My problem with these types of apps will always be that most software it interacts with will unfortunately be designed without accessibility in mind.
I've trialed a handful of these mouse-less programs before and I always run into the same hurdles.
E.g. where one or more of my apps have sliders which I can't interact with using clicks instead of drags (so I can't interact with it at all), or needing to click things like my MacOS dock, or even resize a window.