EdgeVolume
Control your Mac’s volume from your trackpad edge
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Details
- External ID
- 1275665
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- EdgeVolume
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 69
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.97
- Tags
- Mac, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps, Apple
Description
Slide one finger along your Mac’s trackpad edge to adjust the volume. Choose the left edge, right edge, or both, and tune the sensitivity to your preference. EdgeVolume is a free, open-source macOS utility that runs in your menu bar. Currently in early access.
Enrichment
- Niche
- custom keyboards and input tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- volume control via mac trackpad edge
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Intercepting raw multi-touch trackpad coordinates outside of active window focus requires low-level private macOS MultitouchSupport framework bindings and system accessibility permissions.
What it would actually take: A developer needs to link against the undocumented private `MultitouchSupport.framework` in Swift/Objective-C to capture absolute finger coordinates on the trackpad surface. The app requires a menu bar daemon (`NSStatusItem`) that monitors coordinates in a background thread, translates edge delta gestures into CoreAudio volume changes, and handles OS permission hoops. While simple in code volume, reverse-engineering Apple's private C APIs and keeping it stable across macOS updates requires native macOS systems engineering.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 411 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #34 of 412 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 329 days after the earliest competitor.
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- mactooloud · ph · 2026-09-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- MacRemote · github · 2026-09-30 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- I wrote a macOS C++ audio driver to fix HDMI volume controls · hn · 2026-03-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Audio Priority Bar · ph · 2026-10-05 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- SOUND · ph · 2026-09-26 · 101 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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