Karabiner VS Smooze

Karabiner

Karabiner, previously called KeyRemap4MacBook, is a very powerful keyboard remapper for Mac OS X.

Smooze

Smooze animates your scroll and adds functionality to your non-Apple mouse (scroll-wheel mouse).

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Smooze videos

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Category Popularity

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Smooze

Automation

80 80%

Automation

20% 20

Note Taking

58 58%

Note Taking

42% 42

Game Reviews

0 0%

Game Reviews

100% 100

Window Manager

100 100%

Window Manager

0% 0

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Karabiner seems to be a lot more popular than Smooze. While we know about 269 links to Karabiner, we've tracked only 19 mentions of Smooze. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Karabiner mentions (269)

Ask HN: What if we wrote HTML with [brackets][/brackets]?
I have been using Karabiner elements (https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org), they allow keyboard customization, I have switched the colon and semicolon key, by default without pressing shift, the key will output colon (:) , I find this useful as I type lot of colon daily. Maybe you can use this software to set "<" and ">" to be the default text output without using Shift. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
Remote desktop from Windows to Mac, native keys and function
In the settings of chrome remote desktop there is an option to not send modifier keys etc to the host system. I've also heard of https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/. Source: 5 months ago
DOS_deck: Play DOS games in the browser with full controller support
Possible karbiner but I've never looked into doing specifically that, so I may be wrong https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
Always paste without formatting on macOS
Remap with Karabiner (https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/). I personally mapped right_command + v to it, but it's capable of a straight out remap. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
A collection of useful Mac Apps
Karabiner-Elements - Price: Free Powerful and stable keyboard customizer for macOS. Source: 10 months ago

Smooze mentions (19)

An Open Source Mouse and Trackpad Utility for Mac
I've used Smooze [1] in the past. It has a ton of features, but I really just need it for turning off mouse acceleration and making the scroll wheel usable. Glad to see an open source option. [1] https://smooze.co/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
MacOS improvement discussion
Smooze is the best app I have found to make using mac with a non-mac mouse even remotely usable. Really wish Apple would care a little more about mouse support. Source: 12 months ago
MacOS and middle mouse button
Mac unfortunately isn’t the best at supporting third party mice and their additional buttons, for your specific case, the only app that I know of that offers a similar option would be smooze. Source: about 1 year ago
I want the middle click on my mouse to bring up the context menu (Basically I want what the right-click on Windows does) Is anyone able to tell me how to do this? I am amazed at how hard I have found trying to find an answer to this ! Thank you.
What mouse are you using? - SteerMouse is a nice app that can remap buttons. - Smooze I think also had some options for buttons. Source: about 1 year ago
Grab scroll on macOS using a trackball
Hey guys, I've recently added some trackball improvements to the grab scroll feature in Smooze Pro and I'd love to get some avid trackball users input on this. Source: over 1 year ago