Glide - Trackpad Edge Gestures
Effortless brightness & volume edge gestures for Mac
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Control your MacBook screen brightness and sound volume by simply sliding your finger along the edges of your trackpad — with realistic Force Touch haptics, zero permissions, and zero bloat. Stop reaching for function keys or digging through Control Center sliders. Glide turns the unused left and right borders of your trackpad into smooth, natural adjustment rails.
PH · launched Nov 11, 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
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
Partial The gesture logic and settings UI are vibe-codeable, but reliable trackpad edge detection, Force Touch haptics, and brightness control without permissions depend on undocumented private macOS frameworks that AI assistants handle poorly.
What it would actually take: The app likely reads raw multitouch data from the private MultitouchSupport framework and drives haptics and display brightness through private APIs such as DisplayServices or the haptic engine interfaces. Making it feel native means tuning gesture thresholds and haptic timing empirically. This needs someone with macOS reverse-engineering experience and tolerance for breakage across OS updates.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 706 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #109 of 707 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 374 days after the earliest competitor.
- EdgeBar · ph · 2026-11-06 · 107 upvotes · similarity 0.80
- Haptiker · ph · 2026-10-06 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- EdgeSlide · ph · 2026-11-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- Padrail · ph · 2026-11-11 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- MacEdge · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- EdgeVolume · ph · 2026-10-11 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- UtilityPad · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Tempo · ph · 2026-11-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.68
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