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A free alternative to BTT trackpad gestures is jitouch2 (https://www.jitouch.com). It's not as versatile and no longer maintained, but works well for most use cases even in the latest version of MacOS.

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Thanks for the recommendation. I paid for BTT, and find it very unstable. More often than not the custom snap windows function just doesn't work. That's the only reason I bought it.

I used to be able to restart BTT and snapping would work again, but that is no longer effective in the latest version. I guess the fact that it even has a "restart" option in its drop-down menu should have been a hint.

Check out Rectangle (https://rectangleapp.com) for window snapping. It's open source and I've had no issues with it.

I just don't get why custom gesture mapping isn't implemented in macOS itself.

"custom" violates Apple's UX philosophy.

It's as custom as keyboard mapping which it already has.

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