TrackEdge
Hidden AI buttons on your MacBook’s trackpad
Get picks like this daily. Today's launch numbers, the top launches, AI and tech news, and a daily opportunity pick, straight to your inbox.
Want to reach these readers? Sponsor an issue.
TrackEdge turns the edges of a MacBook trackpad into controls. Slide along the right edge for volume, the left edge for display brightness, and the bottom edge for media playback. Double-tap either top corner to mute, open an app or website, press a keyboard shortcut, or run a Shortcuts action.
PH · launched Nov 4, 2026 · 73 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- User Experience
- Apple
Visit website ↗ Source listing ↗
More like this: all 448 launches in macos system utilities →
Could you build this?
Partial The settings UI and action mapping are vibe-codeable, but the core edge detection relies on low-level macOS multitouch input, which needs native Swift work and undocumented or private framework knowledge.
What it would actually take: Build a native Swift/AppKit menu-bar app that reads raw trackpad touch data (historically via the private MultitouchSupport framework) and maps edge-region gestures to media keys, brightness and volume controls, and Shortcuts or AppleScript actions, with Accessibility permissions. The hard part is reliable low-level touch handling across macOS versions and hardware, which requires macOS systems programming experience and testing across Mac models.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 447 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #32 of 448 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 340 days after the earliest competitor.
- Padrail · ph · 2026-11-11 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- EdgeBar · ph · 2026-11-06 · 107 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- MacEdge · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Brink · ph · 2026-11-03 · 77 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Margin · ph · 2026-11-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- UtilityPad · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Glide - Trackpad Edge Gestures · ph · 2026-11-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- EdgeSlide · ph · 2026-11-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.60
The niche, labels, vibe code rating and competitor comparison on this page are analysis by Nicheloom. If you use them, please credit nicheloom.com. How you may use our data.