MouseBoost Pro 5.3.0 — macOS

The latest version of MouseBoost Pro (5.2.8) brings a handful of practical additions: quick previews for folder trees, aspect ratio selection during image operations, automatic OCR copy, improved scrolling capture, and more flexible batch renaming with insert-at-position and rename-from-list support. It also lets you set a maximum depth for file and directory trees. These join an already solid set of right-click utilities for the Mac Finder.

Standout features, one job each

• Permanent file deletion. Bypasses the Trash entirely when you want a file gone for good.
• Encrypted compression. Zip folders with a password directly from the right-click menu.
• Quick file creation. New documents in common formats without opening an app first.
• Full menu sorting. Reorder every item in your right-click menu to match how you work.
• Show or hide files. Toggle visibility of system or hidden files without a terminal command.
• Batch renaming with depth control. Rename files in nested folders and set how deep the tool goes.

If you spend any time in the Finder moving, copying, or cleaning up files, MouseBoost Pro puts those actions where you already click. It runs on macOS 10.11 and later, both Intel and Apple Silicon.

Password-protect and send client files in one right-click

A designer I know keeps project files for about forty clients across three external drives. Every week she needs to gather a folder of finals, compress it with a password, and send it off. Without MouseBoost Pro, that meant opening the folder, selecting files, choosing Compress from the Finder menu, then separately running an archive tool with a password field. With version 5.2.8, she right-clicks the folder, picks encrypted compression, types the password once, and the zip is ready. The same right-click also handles moving files to her archive drive and, when she's sure a draft is dead, permanent deletion to keep her working drives clean.

She also relies on the quick preview for folder trees. Before sending a client link to a Dropbox folder, she right-clicks and sees the tree structure right there — no terminal, no extra window. It confirms she didn't accidentally include work-in-progress subfolders.

Trim the right-click menu to your daily tools

MouseBoost Pro's right-click menu comes with every tool enabled. That's a lot of items. The first thing worth doing is opening the customization panel and turning off anything you don't use regularly. For a designer, hiding batch rename, developer tools, and terminal launchers makes the menu shorter and faster to scan. If you are a developer, you might keep iTerm2, VSCode, Sublime Text, and Emacs launchers and remove the file compression and image tools.

Menu sorting is also worth a few minutes. Drag the actions you use most — for me, copy path, move, and compress — to the top of the list. The order sticks across restarts, so you only set it once.

What to expect during use

MouseBoost Pro is a Finder extension, not a full-window application. After installation you will see a new section in the right-click menu labeled with the app's name. That section contains everything. There is no separate dashboard or preferences window beyond the menu customization panel.

Because it works inside the Finder, expect its tools to appear only when you right-click on files or folders. It does not add buttons to the Finder toolbar or change any default behavior until you use a right-click action. The encrypted compression and permanent deletion ask for confirmation before running, so you will not accidentally nuke a folder. File creation and folder icon changes happen immediately after you choose them.

Batch renaming respects the depth limit you set. If you leave the default, it renames only items in the current folder. Bump it up to include subfolders. The rename-from-list feature expects a plain text file with one new name per line; paste in your list and the tool matches names in order. That works well for renaming a set of images to match a client's naming convention.

Language and architecture

The interface is English only. No other language is included. The app runs on any Mac with macOS 10.11 or newer, whether it uses an Intel processor or Apple Silicon. That covers everything from a 2012 iMac to the latest M-series machines. Installation requires one short terminal step to bypass Gatekeeper, then a drag to Applications. After that, MouseBoost Pro is ready to extend your Finder context menu.

• Added quick preview for folder trees.
• Added aspect ratio selection and automatic OCR copy.
• Improved scrolling capture.
• Added support for inserting text at a specific position in batch renaming.
• Added rename-from-list support in batch renaming.
• Added a maximum depth setting for file and directory trees.
• Fixed known issues.

• macOS 10.11 or later
• Intel or Apple Silicon
• Interface language: English