Download MouseBoost Pro for macOS

Thirty-something. That's how many small utilities MouseBoost Pro tucks into your right-click menu. The first time you install it, the list feels almost too generous—so here's where I'd start.

Right-click any file and pick a hash. MD5, SHA1, SHA256, and a handful of others are right there. No Terminal, no dragging files into a separate app. It's the kind of thing you don't realize you need until you're verifying a download three times a week.

Next, try creating a new file from the menu. You can whip up a plain text file, a Word doc, or a custom type you define yourself—say, an empty SCSS partial or a README.md—straight from Finder. Pair that with the "hide/show specified files" toggle, and you've got a quick way to tidy a project folder without playing dotfile peekaboo.

The encrypted archive option deserves an early look too. Select a few files, compress them with a password, and you're done. It's a thin wrapper around system tools, sure, but the convenience of skipping a trip to the Share menu or a dedicated archiver makes it stick. Once you've tried those three, the other twenty-seven tools—batch renaming, folder icon changes, quick folder previews—start calling your name.

First menu clean-up I recommend

Out of the box, MouseBoost Pro shows nearly everything, and that's a lot. Open preferences and scroll to the menu list. I'd recommend unchecking actions you'll never touch—like the code-editor shortcuts if you live in Xcode, or the image tools if you rarely touch screenshots. You can drag entries to reorder them too, which means the stuff you actually use sits at the top where a right-click lands naturally.

Next, flip the switch for "Open iTerm2 to this directory" if you've got it installed. Out of the box the Terminal command takes precedence, but iTerm users will want to swap that. Same goes for the editor entries—VSCode, Sublime Text, and Emacs all have their own checkboxes, and you'll want only your daily driver active so the menu doesn't balloon. While you're there, set a custom file type or two. I've got an empty .cursorrules and a blank justfile saved, and they've saved me from hunting down templates more times than I'd like to admit.

About 30–50 MB RAM with near-idle CPU

This is a menu extension, not a background monster. Activity Monitor puts the helper process at around 30–50 MB of RAM most days, with near-zero CPU unless you're running a batch hash or a deep folder tree preview. I've had it installed alongside other Finder extensions without a single conflict—no menu lag, no beachballing, no Finder reloads. The right-click menu appears just as fast as the stock one, which isn't always a given with context-menu plugins.

Stability has been uneventful in the best way. Version 5.2.8 fixed a handful of known issues, and in daily use across moving files, running checksums, and using the new maximum-depth setting for directory trees, I haven't seen a crash. Encrypted compression still hands off to the system's zip utility under the hood, so speed there mirrors what you'd get in Terminal—no surprises. If you're on Apple Silicon, the app runs natively and feels it.

Finder right-click menu draws instantly

Does this slow down Finder? Not that I can measure. The extension hooks into the right-click menu the same way Dropbox or iCloud shortcuts do, and the menu draws instantly. The only time you'll notice any work happening is during a multi-file checksum or a deep folder tree preview, and even that's measured in seconds, not minutes.

What does mouseboost pro give me that the free alternatives don't? Most free right-click tools cover two or three of these actions—maybe a "copy path" here, a hash calculator there. MouseBoost Pro bundles all thirty-plus into one menu, lets you reorder and hide them, and keeps adding features like the new OCR copy and batch-renaming improvements. You're paying for consolidation and ongoing updates rather than a single trick.

Can I make it work with a programmable mouse? Absolutely. Since every action lives in the right-click menu, assigning a mouse button to a right-click in something like Logi Options+ or SteerMouse means the full menu appears under your thumb. I've got a side button doing exactly that, and it's cut down file operations to barely a flick.

Version 5.2.8 brings a few quality-of-life upgrades:

• Quick preview now works for folder trees, and you can set a maximum depth for file and directory tree listings.
• Aspect ratio selection and automatic OCR copy join the screenshot toolkit.
• Scrolling capture got smoother.
• Batch renaming gains insert-at-position and rename-from-list options.
• Several known issues have been fixed.

• OS X 10.11 or later
• Works on Apple Silicon and 64-bit Intel Macs