Haptiker
Volume, brightness and keyboard light on your trackpad edges
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Details
- External ID
- 1268514
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Haptiker
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 69
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9729170584916306
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Haptiker turns the edges of your Mac trackpad into sliders. Right edge: volume. Left: display brightness, external monitors too on Apple Silicon. Top: keyboard light. Haptic ticks, and scrolling works as before. 7-day free trial, then one payment.
Enrichment
- Niche
- custom keyboards and input utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- trackpad edge controls for mac volume and display settings
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Intercepting low-level macOS multitouch trackpad events at the edges, controlling private DDC/CI monitor brightness, and triggering haptic actuator feedback requires deep macOS systems programming.
What it would actually take: A real version requires Swift/Objective-C interfacing with private MultitouchSupport frameworks to get raw finger contact positions relative to trackpad physical bounds. It requires DDC/CI IOKit communication to drive external monitor hardware brightness on Apple Silicon, NSHapticFeedbackManager/IOHID for actuator feedback, and precise filtering algorithms to avoid interfering with native multi-finger gestures.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 315 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #23 of 316 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 324 days after the earliest competitor.
- FeelMyMac · ph · 2026-10-03 · 85 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- FingerChord.app · github · 2026-09-15 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Glance Switch · ph · 2026-09-27 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Remote Magic Trackpad · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Screen Bright · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- XF1 Mouse · ph · 2026-10-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Kleanly · ph · 2026-09-26 · 109 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- LidBendy · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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- No other launches for this product.
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