How to uninstall BetterAndBetter on Mac

BetterAndBetter is better365's trackpad, mouse and keyboard enhancer: action gestures, drawing gestures, mouse buttons and shortcuts. Your rules are the only thing worth keeping, and version 2 can save them to iCloud and download them again, according to the developer, so sync or note your rule set before you remove the app. It lives in the menu bar, starts at login through a small helper, and in one test it started itself again after being stopped from outside, so quit it from its own menu. This guide covers the app downloaded from better365.cn and the Homebrew cask betterandbetter.

Quit and remove the app

1. Click BetterAndBetter's menu bar icon and choose Quit. Stopping it from Activity Monitor may not be enough; in the September 23 test the app started again after a plain terminate signal. Mole's own quit step during the uninstall did stop it.
2. Open System Settings › General › Login Items & Extensions and turn off BetterAndBetter if it is listed. The app ships a login helper, BetterAndBetterHelper, for starting at login.
3. Move BetterAndBetter from Applications to the Trash.
4. If you granted it access in System Settings › Privacy & Security, for example under Accessibility, remove its entry there. Deleting the app does not clear those lists.

Where the app keeps its data

Press Shift + Command + G in Finder and open each location, skipping any that is missing. better365 does not document these paths; they come from Homebrew's zap list and the recorded tests.

A folder named for the whole developer, 4K6FWZU8C4.group.cn.better365, can also appear in Group Containers and Application Scripts. Its name does not belong to BetterAndBetter alone, and other better365 apps such as iShot or FastZip may use it, so leave it while you still have any of them.

Check the result

Run these read-only commands after the app is in the Trash:

pgrep -il betterandbetter
launchctl list | grep -i better365
ls -d "$HOME/Library/Group Containers/4K6FWZU8C4.cn.better365.BetterAndBetter" ~/Library/Preferences/cn.better365.BetterAndBetter.plist

• No output from pgrep means neither the app nor its helper is running. A listed process means one of them is still up; quit it from the menu bar or log out.
• A com.better365.BetterAndBetterHelper line from launchctl list means the login helper is still loaded. No output means it is gone.
• ls -d prints each item that still exists. "No such file or directory" means it is gone.

If you installed it with Homebrew

When you remove a Homebrew install, Mole runs Homebrew's uninstall and adds --zap only when every path in the cask's zap list sits inside ~/Library, none of them is a row you left unticked, and no other installed app claims it. Otherwise it leaves --zap out and still removes the rows you ticked.

The betterandbetter cask's zap list covers both preferences files, ~/Library/Application Support/BetterAndBetter, ~/Library/Application Support/cn.better365.BetterAndBetter, the cache, both HTTPStorages entries and ~/Library/WebKit/com.better365.BetterAndBetter. brew uninstall --cask --zap betterandbetter moves them to the Trash whatever you ticked in Mole. The group folder is not in that list, so check it afterwards. To remove only the app:

brew uninstall --cask betterandbetter

BetterAndBetter · Homebrew's betterandbetter cask

What Mole lists

This describes Mole for the app downloaded from better365.cn:

• The preferences file and the temporary folders macOS keeps for the app and its helper are selected by default.
• The group folder 4K6FWZU8C4.cn.better365.BetterAndBetter and its Application Scripts peer are listed but not selected. When you tick them, Mole first checks that no other installed app uses the group; if it cannot confirm that, it keeps the folder and the row says so.
• The developer-wide 4K6FWZU8C4.group.cn.better365 folders are not listed.
• Mole does not edit the Privacy & Security lists.

What this test covered

On September 26, 2026, BetterAndBetter 2.7.9 was copied from the official download into Applications, without Homebrew, launched once, and uninstalled with a development build of Mole, with every listed item ticked for the test. Status showed one row, BetterAndBetter, with three processes and about 29 MB, and the first launch loaded the com.better365.BetterAndBetterHelper job, which was gone after the uninstall. The app, the preferences file and both temporary folders went to the Trash. The group folder and its script folder were ticked but kept: while the uninstall ran, the list of installed apps on the test Mac changed for reasons unrelated to BetterAndBetter, so the ownership check could not confirm the group was unused and left it, as designed. An earlier test on September 23, 2026 with the same version found that the app restarted itself after a terminate signal, that Mole's quit step stopped it, and that three preferences files, the app's, its helper's and one for its group, went to the Trash. Neither test set up rules or iCloud sync, and the Homebrew cask was not tested.