Stop accidental trackpad clicks while you type.
TouchGuard holds back trackpad clicks for a moment after each key release, so a palm brushing the trackpad mid-sentence doesn’t move your cursor. It lives in your menu bar, is free and open source, and never reads what you type.
Download for macOS · macOS 14 or later · signed and notarised
Or with Homebrew: brew install --cask sjhorn/tap/touchguard
Features
- Blocks clicks for 50–1000 ms after each key release (default 200 ms)
- Turn it on or off from the menu bar or with ⌃⌥⌘T
- Counts the clicks it held back, so you can see it working
- Launch at Login
- Recovers by itself when macOS switches its event tap off
- Updates itself
- For power users: a
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Links
Based on the original TouchGuard by SyntaxSoft (2016).