EdgeSlide
Any action on any trackpad edge, without the misfires
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Slide a trackpad edge to change volume or brightness, switch tabs or seek a video. Pick an action for every edge and corner, and let presets switch with the app in front. Palm and typing protection mean it never fires by accident. Free during launch.
PH · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 7%) · 0 views
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 37 in the last 7 days ▼ -8% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- User Experience
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
Partial The settings UI and action mapping are vibe-codeable, but detecting trackpad edges and rejecting palms requires access to private macOS multitouch APIs and careful low-level tuning.
What it would actually take: Build a native macOS app in Swift that uses CGEvent taps for actions and the private MultitouchSupport framework to read raw contact data for edge detection and palm rejection. The hard parts are tuning gesture heuristics to avoid misfires and keeping the app working across macOS updates that can break private APIs, which calls for deep macOS input-system expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 256 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #43 of 257 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 239 days after the earliest competitor.
- Glide - Trackpad Edge Gestures · ph · 2026-11-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- Padrail · ph · 2026-11-11 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- MacEdge · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- EdgeBar · ph · 2026-11-06 · 107 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Brink · ph · 2026-11-03 · 77 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Margin · ph · 2026-11-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- EdgeVolume · ph · 2026-10-11 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- TrackEdge · ph · 2026-11-04 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.60
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