---
name: MiddleDrag
subtitle: A single gesture you'll use a hundred times a day
date: 2026-03-22
category: input
tags: [macos, mouse, gestures, open-source]
description: "Click-drag from any pixel of a window to move it. A tiny, free utility that erases a quiet daily friction."
link: https://github.com/artginzburg/MiddleDrag
linkText: Visit on GitHub
---

Hold a modifier (or click the literal middle mouse button) and drag from anywhere inside any window to move it. A second modifier resizes. That's the entire app — a Linux/X11 trick that macOS has never shipped, ported in a few hundred lines of Swift.

Most useful when a window's title bar is hidden, off-screen, or buried under another window — the cases where macOS leaves you stranded. Open source, MIT-licensed, runs at zero CPU when idle. macOS 12+.