Works great with my Xbox 360 USB controller. The homepage for this app is really good; there are lots of good tips there, like how to map a key combination (like Ctrl-R or whatever) to one controller button. The only thing that’s a little funky are the trigger buttons, LT and RT. These are usually used as throttles in games, since they can output a range of “pull” depending on how hard you’re pulling on the trigger. Every once in a while these seem to get a little “stuck” in the game I’m playing with this app. But I figure that’s a limitation of the Mac or the controller driver. Yes, you do need a controller driver if you’re using an Xbox controller. This app’s homepage talks about that too. The driver is free and it’s on Github, the open-source code-sharing site. I’ve been using this controller for ages with the open-source driver, to use it with Steam games and such. But I needed this app to use the controller with an old game that didn’t support controllers. Two things that would be nice: 1 - if controller buttons and triggers could be labeled the same way as they are on the controller, so that it’s easy to see what’s what. And 2 - being able to manually sort your keybinds. As it is, they can’t be sorted—they just stay in the order you add them. There is an alphabetical sort option but that’s not useful and doesn’t seem to work.

I’ve simply purchased this for Minecraft specifically. I recently bought it on PC and I use FREEWARE of Input Mapper combined with my DS4 through USB and it works fantastic. I prefer Minecraft on PC / Mac because it’s further adavnced than console but I like the controller scheme of say Xbox Minecraft so I map my buttons to fit that as close as possible. With this App here I am able to connect my DS4 to my Macbook Pro without issues. I can map buttons on the controller to specific keys on the computer that correspond to the proper keys for Minecraft. The issue I’m having is basically there are no Macro Options. I could map one button to two keys like in Input Mapper and have workaround fixes for buttons that stay pushed. For instance, in Minecraft I mapped Sneak to the CAPS LOCK button and to L3 so it stays pushed as needed so it doesn’t become cumbersome trying to hold it down. Then I added a Macro for R3 to CAPS LOCK to press and release so it undoes the action. In conclusion, this app works great but it needs more options like macro.UPDATE: So I’ve found out how to use this app much better. If playing Minecraft for instance, and you’re player doesn’t stop hitting blocks you need to set the “+” to a “-“ within the app. The only button that won’t map properly is SNEAK. There are no keys on a Mac Book Pro that you can map it to hold it down. You can use SNEAK but you must hold it down the entire time unless they add macro options to stay pushed. Other than that, I’ve mapped it pretty much identical to Minecraft 360. I’m still using a DS4 and now wirelessly paired.

Relatively easy to get up and running. It's one major flaw (so far) is that it doesn't completely override the buttons. By this I mean that whatever half-baked mappings that apple has put in place are still there so that in some few cases your button will do TWO actions instead of just the one programmed.For instance. On Elder Scrolls Online using an XBox One Controller the menu button should normally bring up the menu for you to interact. After proper mapping this happens, but you still have the default Apple action happening at the same time which puts your toon into a crouch. A function that you've programmed to another button. Another example is the left joystick button which should put you into a run. The Apple programming is still there so you activate ability 5 instead of running.This is not the program author's fault, It's Apple's "It just works" (for them) mentality.

This app is not as intuitive as you would intially expect it to be—you can’t just plug in a controller and make it work right away as some people might expect (probably why so many don’t like the app). Regardless, after a quick online tutorial I got my PowerA USB controller to work perfectly for my game. Just an fyi: YOU WILL NEED TO MAKE CUSTOM SETTINGS FOR EACH GAME. (it gets easier after the first time). I think a lot of the issues people are having can be resolved by understanding how the settings of the app work: for example, I kept having my cursor move off the screen and bring up my dock, but I figured out there is a "lock cursor to main screen" function and now I don’t have that issue. I ESPECIALLY like the scan function, it makes it really easy to attach keys to the different parts of my controller. Without the scan function, I don’t think this would be a very good app, because it makes everything so much easier to set up.