MacEdge
Turn your Mac trackpad's edges into real controls
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MacEdge turns the unused edges of your Mac trackpad into controls. Slide the right edge for volume, the left for brightness, drag the bottom to scrub any video, and tap the top corners to open apps, links, key combos or Shortcuts. The middle of the trackpad works exactly as before, palms and scrolling never trigger it, and every step has a haptic tick. Native Swift, Apple silicon, macOS 14+. Touches never leave your Mac. $3 once, no subscription.
PH · launched Nov 6, 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
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
Partial The settings and gesture-to-action UI are easy, but reading raw trackpad touches while ignoring palms and keeping normal trackpad behavior relies on private or low-level macOS APIs that need specialized knowledge.
What it would actually take: Write a native Swift macOS app with a menu bar agent that uses Accessibility and event taps for input, plus the private MultitouchSupport framework to read raw finger positions. Map edge regions to system actions (volume and brightness via media keys or private APIs, scrubbing via simulated keys, and Shortcuts or app launching). The hard parts are palm rejection, preserving normal trackpad gestures, and staying compatible across macOS updates, which requires macOS internals experience.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 915 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #520 of 916 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 355 days after the earliest competitor.
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