Padoo Trackpad
Your iPhone as a trackpad, air pointer and deck for Mac
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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.
PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 1 view
Niche: macos system utilities · 453 launches, 36 in the last 7 days ▼ -18% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
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More like this: all 453 launches in macos system utilities →
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 : 863 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #386 of 864 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 293 days after the earliest competitor.
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