UtilityPad
swipes of your Mac trackpad into controls
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Slide the edges of your Mac trackpad for volume and brightness, tap corners for screenshots, flick in to snap windows. Free, with Pro for $2 once.
PH · launched Nov 11, 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
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Menu Bar Apps
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More like this: all 448 launches in macos system utilities →
Could you build this?
Partial The gesture-to-action UI and preferences are straightforward Swift, but reading raw trackpad input and suppressing system gestures depends on private macOS multitouch APIs and accessibility permissions that take careful macOS-specific work.
What it would actually take: Use the private MultitouchSupport framework to read touch events, and CGEvent or private APIs to control volume, brightness, screenshots, and window snapping. Write it in Swift/AppKit with a menu bar app and entitlement handling for notarization. Needs macOS internals knowledge and tolerance for private-API breakage across OS updates.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1213 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #678 of 1214 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 360 days after the earliest competitor.
- MacEdge · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- EdgeBar · ph · 2026-11-06 · 107 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- slidesense · github · 2026-11-02 · 133 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Glide - Trackpad Edge Gestures · ph · 2026-11-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Qesture · ph · 2026-10-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- TrackStudio · ph · 2026-11-04 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- TocaPad · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Panebird · ph · 2026-11-04 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.65
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