Padoo Trackpad
Your iPhone as a trackpad, air pointer and deck for Mac
Details
- External ID
- 1253385
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Padoo Trackpad
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Productivity
- Fetched at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 1:15 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 1:15 a.m.
Description
Padoo turns the iPhone already in your hand into three controls for your Mac: a familiar trackpad, an air pointer you aim like a remote, and a customizable deck of glass keys for apps and actions. It works with a free Mac companion and pairs in one QR scan; after that the two reconnect automatically over the best local link. No account, no servers, and no subscription. Try it free for three days, then it’s $9.99 once.
Enrichment
- Theme
- cross-device control and OS utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- iphone trackpad controller for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A basic UI remote is simple, but achieving smooth, zero-latency air pointer tracking and trackpad emulation requires low-level iOS CoreMotion filtering and macOS virtual HID driver development.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires an iOS client sampling 60-120Hz IMU/gyroscope data paired with a native macOS daemon via a lightweight UDP or WebSockets protocol over local Wi-Fi/Bluetooth. The hardest part is sensor fusion (using Kalman filtering or Madgwick algorithms) to eliminate drift in air-pointer mode, along with dispatching synthetic OS cursor events via macOS Accessibility/Quartz APIs with negligible latency.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 344 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #93 of 345 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
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