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Gestures for macOS

Custom trackpad gestures for all apps or specific apps

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Create your own trackpad gestures that run actions on your Mac, like Back, switch tabs, or any menu item or shortcut. Set each gesture for all apps or for a specific app. A free, gestures-only alternative to BetterTouchTool.

PH · launched Nov 4, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views

Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Productivity
  • GitHub
  • Apple

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Could you build this?

Partial The gesture-configuration UI and action mapping are easy to vibe-code, but reliable trackpad gesture detection on macOS depends on undocumented multitouch APIs and accessibility permissions that an AI assistant can only partly get right.

What it would actually take: A real version would be a Swift/AppKit menu bar app that reads raw trackpad touch data through the private MultitouchSupport framework and injects actions with CGEvent or AppleScript. The hard parts are stable gesture recognition across macOS versions, handling the permission model, and notarization and distribution outside the App Store. This takes a developer comfortable with low-level macOS internals, and it should be tested on several OS releases.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 718 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #395 of 719 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 353 days after the earliest competitor.

  • XF1 Mouse  · ph · 2026-10-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.70
  • HGesture · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • MidClick · ph · 2026-10-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • Qesture · ph · 2026-10-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • FingerChord.app · github · 2026-09-15 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • UtilityPad · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • Glide - Trackpad Edge Gestures · ph · 2026-11-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • MacEdge · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60

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