Dwell click

This feature allows users to click, double click, or access context menus by hovering over an object for a certain amount of time, without physically clicking the mouse button.

Please note that these products are not necessarily endorsed by RtF, but represent the range of available options.

Open Source and free

These products are free and their source code may be modified with few restrictions.

• Click Buddy Dwell Clicker(link is external)
• MouseTweaks(link is external)
• SteadyMouse(link is external)

Free, not necessarily open source

These products are free to use, but may have strict restrictions on viewing and modifying source code.

• Dwell Clicker(link is external) – Sensory Software
• Point-N-Click virtual mouse(link is external) – Polital Enterprises, LLC

Commercial, with free trial

These products are free to try for a limited period of time or with limited functionality. They must be purchased for full functionality.

• Dragger(link is external) – Origin Instruments
• Nib & McNib(link is external) – Designer Appliances
• SmartClick(link is external) – IMG

Commercial, no free trial

These products must be purchased to be used, and did not offer free trials at the time of posting.

• Magic Cursor 2000(link is external) – Madentec

• Beyond dwell time: estimating document relevance from cursor movements and other post-click searcher behavior(link is external)- Qi Guo, Eugene Agichtein
• Modeling dwell time to predict click-level satisfaction(link is external)- Youngho Kim, Ahmed Hassan, Ryen W. White, Imed Zitouni
• Command without a click: dwell time typing by mouse and gaze selections(link is external)- John Paul Hansen et. al
• Augmenting the mouse with pressure sensitive input(link is external)- Jared Cechanowicz, Pourang Irani, Sriram Subramanian
• OptiDwell: Intelligent Adjustment of Dwell Click Time(link is external)- Aanand Nayyar, Utkarsh Dwivedi, Karan Ahuja, Nitendra Rajput, Seema Nagar, Kuntal Dey