Brink
Turn your MacBook trackpad's edges into controls
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Brink is a free macOS menu bar app that turns your trackpad's edges into controls. Slide the right edge for volume, the left for brightness, the top for keyboard light. Swipe the bottom to skip, double-tap the corner to mute. Native HUD, haptic ticks.
PH · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 77 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
- Apple
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Could you build this?
Partial A menu bar app with HUD and haptics is buildable, but reading trackpad edge gestures on macOS typically relies on private multitouch frameworks that are fragile and hard to get right without deep platform knowledge.
What it would actually take: The app is a native Swift menu bar app that reads raw multitouch data through the private MultitouchSupport framework, maps edge regions to system controls, and shows a native HUD. The hard parts are stable touch-region detection without false positives and staying compatible across macOS updates, which requires macOS internals experience.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 619 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #24 of 620 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 352 days after the earliest competitor.
- EdgeBar · ph · 2026-11-06 · 107 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- Padrail · ph · 2026-11-11 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- MacEdge · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- TocaPad · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- Margin · ph · 2026-11-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- TrackEdge · ph · 2026-11-04 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- EdgeVolume · ph · 2026-10-11 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- slidesense · github · 2026-11-02 · 133 upvotes · similarity 0.65
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