What's the difference between an auto clicker and a macro?
An auto clicker is a specialized tool that automates one type of click (usually left click) at a fixed interval (e.g. 10 ms = 100 CPS). You set the click button, interval, and optional fixed position, then press a hotkey to toggle on/off. That's the entire feature set. A macro is a broader concept — a scripted sequence of automated actions that can include clicks, keyboard presses, mouse movements, timed delays, and (in advanced macro tools) conditional logic like "if window X is active, click Y, else press Z." Macros are recorded (via a mouse recorder like TinyTask) or written (in a scripting language like AutoHotkey). Auto clickers excel at repeating one action many times — idle games, Cookie Clicker, Roblox clicker sims, form filling. Macros excel at multi-step workflows — game rotation sequences, bulk file operations, complex form flows. In gaming, both trigger anti-cheat detection in competitive multiplayer games because both produce synthetic input via the same Windows APIs (SendInput, keybd_event). Anti-cheats can't easily distinguish auto clicker from macro from custom bot — they detect the underlying pattern.