TouchDown 1.3.0

New: return the pointer after a touch

For anyone using the touchscreen as a second screen: tap something on it, and the pointer goes straight back to where you were working. Turn it on in Settings → Return Pointer After Touch. Requested in Touch Up #44.

• Works after taps, double taps, right-clicks and drags.
• Several taps in a row return to where the pointer was before the first one.
• If you move the mouse or trackpad yourself, the pointer stays where you put it.
• After a Swipe sets what happens when you scroll: Return Immediately (the default) goes straight back and stops the scroll coasting, and Wait for Scrolling to Stop lets the page finish coasting first.

Whatever you tap still becomes the active window, so typing goes there afterwards.

Install

1. Download TouchDown-1.3.0.zip below, unzip it, and move TouchDown to your Applications folder, replacing the old version if you have it.
2. New to TouchDown? macOS blocks the first launch because it isn't signed by Apple. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. Then turn TouchDown on under Privacy & Security → Accessibility, quit it from the menu bar icon and open it again.
3. Updating from 1.2.0? macOS may ask for Accessibility again. If touches stop working, switch TouchDown off and on in the Accessibility list.

Requires macOS 12 or later. Runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.

Trouble? See Troubleshooting, or report your screen.

SHA-256 of TouchDown-1.3.0.zip: 2f1bcbf474f4f23b45af3324d97dd69682a685c6a07e70e37f8fa534b3705b5e

TouchDown 1.2.0

The first release of TouchDown, a fork of Touch Up by Sebastian Hueber.

What's new compared with Touch Up 1.1

Screens that are detected but don't respond to touch

• TouchDown asks for every permission it needs. Touch Up could be granted Accessibility and still have every click and pointer move silently dropped, because it never asked for the separate permission to send mouse events.
• Screens that start up as a mouse are switched into multitouch mode on connect, as Windows does. TouchDown also ignores the screen's built-in mouse fallback, which Touch Up sometimes locked onto. Touch stopped working until relaunch, and sometimes even after.

New

• Calibration, for screens whose touch doesn't line up with the picture: touch and hold five targets, try the result, then save.
• Settings follow the screen, not the USB port it's plugged into.

Changed

• Telling a scroll from a drag is reliable now. A quick swipe scrolls; rest your finger for a moment (0.25 s by default), then move, to drag. Small wobbles no longer turn taps into scrolls.

Install

1. Download TouchDown-1.2.0.zip below, unzip it, and move TouchDown to your Applications folder.
2. Open it. TouchDown isn't signed by Apple, so macOS blocks the first launch. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway.
3. When asked, turn TouchDown on under Privacy & Security → Accessibility, then quit it from the menu bar icon and open it again.

Requires macOS 12 or later. Runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.

If you've used Touch Up, quit it first. Running both at once doubles every click.

Trouble? See Troubleshooting, or report your screen.

SHA-256 of TouchDown-1.2.0.zip: 55716d0294eaede40e9d6dc49929478f19d0880dae7297b05feed8d29a973dc7