EdgeBar
Control your Mac’s volume and brightness from the trackpad
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EdgeBar turns your MacBook trackpad edges into smooth volume and brightness controls, with haptic feedback. Slide the right edge for volume and the left for brightness, with the same on-screen display as the keyboard keys and a light haptic tick as you go. Double-tap the top-right corner to mute, swipe the bottom edge to skip tracks. Lives in the menu bar, uses almost no CPU. $9 once, with lifetime updates.
PH · launched Nov 6, 2026 · 107 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
- Apple
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Could you build this?
Partial The UI and feedback logic are simple, but reading trackpad edge gestures on macOS relies on private multitouch APIs, and brightness control uses private display APIs.
What it would actually take: Capture raw multitouch events via the private MultitouchSupport framework and map edge swipes to volume and brightness changes using system APIs such as CoreAudio and DisplayServices. The hard parts are the private API surface, which can break across macOS releases, and the native Swift or Objective-C system integration.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 940 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #11 of 941 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 355 days after the earliest competitor.
- Glide - Trackpad Edge Gestures · ph · 2026-11-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.80
- Padrail · ph · 2026-11-11 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.78
- Brink · ph · 2026-11-03 · 77 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- EdgeVolume · ph · 2026-10-11 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- Haptiker · ph · 2026-10-06 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- MacEdge · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- UtilityPad · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- slidesense · github · 2026-11-02 · 133 upvotes · similarity 0.71
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