A Logitech Options Plus alternative that works with any mouse

What does Logi Options+ do?

It is Logitech's customisation app for its supported devices: mice, keyboards, webcams, lights, touchpads, presentation remotes and the MX Creative Console. For an editor with a Logitech mouse, six parts matter.

• App-specific settings. Use Logitech's presets or define your own for the apps you use most. Its examples are Chrome, Edge, Safari, Zoom, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and Teams.
• Gestures. Assign gestures to a mouse button: hold it and move up, down, left or right.
• Smart Actions. Several tasks on one click or keystroke; Logitech calls it "like macros with a little magic".
• Actions Ring. A customisable on-screen overlay that puts tools and shortcuts at your cursor.
• Marketplace. Plug-ins, profiles and icon packs.
• Device settings. Pointer and scroll speed, scroll direction, battery levels, Easy-Switch and Flow between computers, and haptic feedback, which for now only the MX Master 4 has.

Downloads are offered for Windows 10 or later and macOS 14 or later. Logitech's page offers it as a download and doesn't state a price.

Does Logi Options+ work with a mouse that isn't a Logitech?

Not according to Logitech's page. Logitech describes Options+ as the app that customises your supported devices, its app-specific settings assign actions to Logitech devices, and every supported-device list on its page is Logitech hardware. If you edit on a Razer, a Corsair, a no-name five-button mouse or the trackball your studio provides, Options+ isn't built for it.

That is the gap mouzeclick fills. It works with any mouse your computer sees, wired, wireless or Bluetooth, up to five standard buttons plus scroll and tilt, with no driver. The first run asks you to press each button once and builds the settings page around the buttons it actually finds. It changes what your buttons do and never touches DPI, polling rate, lighting or firmware, so your mouse maker's own app can stay installed for those.

Why look for a Logitech Options Plus alternative?

Because Options+ is built around Logitech hardware, and an editor's setup often isn't. Four reasons stand out.

• Mixed mice. A Logitech at home, something else at the studio or on the laptop. One app that works on all of them saves you learning two.
• After Effects. Options+ names Premiere Pro among its example presets but not After Effects, so motion designers may well be building from scratch.
• Older Macs. Options+ downloads list macOS 14 or later. mouzeclick runs on macOS 12 or newer.
• More than shortcuts. Options+ sends shortcuts and actions. mouzeclick also runs tools inside Premiere Pro and After Effects through a small panel, such as Unnest, label colours or Fill frame from a flick of the Tool wheel.

If none of those apply to you, read the section on when Options+ is enough before you change anything.

How does a Logitech Options Plus alternative compare, feature by feature?

Both map buttons per app and both put a ring of actions at your cursor; the differences are which mice, which Macs and how far into Premiere and After Effects each one reaches. As each page stated on 31 October 2026.

How does the Actions Ring compare with mouzeclick's wheels?

The Actions Ring is one customisable overlay; mouzeclick has three wheels with different jobs. Logitech describes it as a customisable on-screen overlay that puts your favourite tools and shortcuts at the tip of your cursor. Its pages tie it to MX mice and the MX Creative Console, and the MX Master 4 page features it.

• Options wheel (F8). 48 favourites per app on three rings of 12, 16 and 20. The middle button steps to the next ring. Keys, macros, typed text, launches and your own shortcuts all fit.
• Orbit switch (F9). Up to 12 open apps on one ring; rest on one to see its windows, or a browser's tabs.
• Tool wheel (F10, or a held right button). 112 Premiere Pro tools in 12 segments, or 114 After Effects tools in 13 groups with four starting layouts. The hold delay is yours, 80 to 600 ms, so a quick right-click stays a right-click.

The Options wheel and Orbit switch open from any key or mouse button you choose; on a MacBook keyboard the Options and Orbit wheels use Fn + F8 and Fn + F9. The difference that matters most in an edit is the Tool wheel: its tools run through a panel inside Premiere and After Effects, so they can do jobs no keyboard shortcut does. Logitech's pages we read don't say which Premiere Pro or After Effects actions the Actions Ring can hold, so we won't guess. The After Effects radial menu guide shows the wheel in use.

Does Logi Options+ support Premiere Pro and After Effects?

Premiere Pro, yes; After Effects isn't named on its page. Options+ names Premiere Pro among its example apps with preset settings, and lets you define settings for your other most-used apps, which is how you'd set up After Effects if it has no preset in your copy.

On the mouzeclick side both editors come ready:

• Premiere Pro. A ready profile, a Premiere shortcut library to pick from, the 112-tool Tool wheel, Search effects, the Toolbar, the Studio panel with a silence remover and timeline tools, and 8 extensions. Captions and Retakes are Windows only. The full list is on the Premiere Pro tools page.
• After Effects. A ready profile, the 114-tool After Effects wheel, Search effects with After Effects' own categories, and 15 extensions; mouzekit alone has 28 tools in 7 groups. The extensions page lists them all.
• On Windows. The two mouzeclick workspaces add one panel in each app, with 159 text animation and expression presets and 81 UI templates in After Effects and 44 ready easing curves in both.

For which Premiere keys to put on which buttons, the Premiere Pro mouse shortcuts guide has a table with Windows and Mac defaults.

When is Logi Options+ enough?

When you own a Logitech MX mouse, edit mostly in Premiere Pro, and want buttons and gestures to change per app. Options+ does that, comes from the company that made your mouse, and Logitech doesn't list a price for it. Try it properly first. Options+ is the better pick if:

• Your mouse is a supported Logitech and you don't plan to edit on anything else.
• You use Easy-Switch or Flow to move between computers, or want haptic feedback on an MX Master 4.
• You want pointer speed, scroll speed and battery in the same app as your buttons.
• You want a setup with no subscription.
• You often work offline. mouzeclick needs an internet connection while it runs; if it drops, the shortcuts pause and the mouse behaves normally.

mouzeclick earns its place when you switch between mouse brands, work in After Effects, run macOS 12 or 13, or want the Tool wheels and panels inside the editors.

Can you run Options+ and mouzeclick on the same Logitech mouse?

Yes, if each button belongs to one app. If both apps act on the same button, one press does two things.

1. Decide the split. A sensible one: Options+ keeps pointer and scroll speed, battery, Easy-Switch, Flow and haptics; mouzeclick takes the button actions in your editors.
2. Free the buttons. In Options+, give the buttons you're handing over a plain action (their normal click, back or forward) in your editors, so only mouzeclick reacts to them.
3. Calibrate mouzeclick. Press each button once on first run. mouzeclick uses up to five standard buttons plus scroll and tilt. Any other control on your Logitech mouse stays with Options+.
4. Test it. The live input check shows where each press went. If a press still triggers two things, switch it off in one of the apps.

How do you move an Options+ setup to mouzeclick?

Write down what each button and gesture does in Premiere today, then rebuild it in the same places. One sitting is enough.

1. Start the trial. 3 days, no card; the key arrives by email. No driver to install.
2. Pick your editor on first run so its buttons are set up for you, or skip and start blank.
3. Buttons. Click a button and choose from the shortcut library, or type any key combination as a custom shortcut.
4. Gestures. Pick the gesture button (a side button, the wheel click, or the left or right button) and fill up, down, left and right. An editing preset fills empty directions in one press: up plays, down splits, left undoes, right steps one frame forward.
5. Smart Actions to macros. Press Record, do the steps once in the editor, press Esc twice.
6. Actions Ring to the Options wheel. Put the commands you reach for ten times a day on its first ring.
7. Install the Premiere bridge or After Effects bridge from the Tool wheel page and restart the editor, so the Tool wheel can run commands inside it. Keep mouzeclick running while you edit.

Each app keeps its own buttons, so the same back button can cut in Premiere and go back a page in your browser.

Which works on older Macs and on Windows?

mouzeclick reaches further back on the Mac. Options+ downloads are listed for Windows 10 or later and macOS 14 or later, and the MX Master 4 page says it requires the Options+ app and lists Windows 11 with the end-of-March 2026 update or later. mouzeclick runs on Windows 10 and 11 and on macOS 12 or newer, Apple Silicon and Intel.

On a Mac, mouzeclick's buttons, gestures, macros, all three wheels, the Tool wheels and the extensions work. The two workspaces, auto, styled and Hinglish captions, Retakes, cloud sync and in-app updates are Windows only for now. Apple hasn't notarized the app yet, so macOS asks you to allow it once in Privacy & Security, and it needs the Accessibility and Input Monitoring permissions. The Mac page has the steps, and the pricing section shows the plan in your currency.

Questions people ask

Sources

Checked on 2026-10-31. Prices and features change: each link goes to the maker's own page.

1. Logitech: Logi Options+ (supported devices, app-specific presets, gestures, Smart Actions, Actions Ring, haptics, OS), checked 31 Oct 2026
2. Logitech MX Master 4: requires Logi Options+, Actions Ring, haptic feedback, Windows 11 compatibility (re-checked 31 Oct 2026)
3. Logitech MX Creative Console: a dialpad and keypad, set up through Logi Options+

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