Four corners
Press a corner lightly to mute, play, or skip a track, to open an app, link, or file, to press a key combination, or to run a shortcut. One corner can hold a different action for each number of presses.
Every edge does what you choose
Give each edge any of these controls. They move in fixed steps, so a slide goes as far as you expect, and a tap on an edge changes nothing.
- Volume moves in the same steps as your keyboard.
- Brightness changes your Mac's built-in screen.
- Media seek shows a preview before you let go.
- Scroll moves the window under the pointer.
- Zoom works in apps that use the standard zoom shortcuts on a US keyboard layout.
- Switch apps moves through your open apps one at a time.
- Switch Spaces moves one Space left or right.
- Keyboard backlight changes the light under your keys.
- Monitor brightness is experimental, and it needs an external display that allows it.
You feel each step
Your trackpad taps back as you slide, so you can change the volume without looking. Choose how strong the tick is, or turn it off.
More controls
Two fingers
Give an edge a second job. One finger can change the volume, and two fingers can zoom.
A setup for each app
The bottom edge can seek in your video player and scroll in your browser. Each app changes only what you tell it to, and the rest follows your usual setup.
A guided start
A short tour walks you through the permission and your first slide, and then helps you choose your edges, corners, and haptics. You can take it again at any time.
Good to know
- Will it get in the way of normal clicks?
- The middle of the trackpad works as it always has. A finger that lands on an edge is treated as the start of a slide, so the pointer waits, and a click there arrives when you let go. A corner with an action uses that press for its action, and the top-left corner mutes until you change it.
- Why does it ask for Accessibility?
- The app needs this permission to press keys for you, including any shortcut you assign, to bring apps forward, and to watch trackpad clicks so that a slide or corner press does not also click. It reads key presses only while you record a shortcut, and during a gesture it checks which modifier keys are held. Without the permission, gestures stay off.
- Does it collect anything?
- No. Your touches stay on your Mac, and the app has no accounts, no tracking, and no analytics.
- Does media seek work everywhere?
- It works with whatever your Mac shows as now playing. An app that does not share its position cannot be moved, and testing so far has used Chrome.
- Why does keyboard backlight sometimes stop?
- macOS turns the keyboard light off when the room is bright. The app tells you when this happens, and the light comes back in a darker room.
Get Trackpad Edges
Needs a Mac with Apple silicon and a Force Touch trackpad, running macOS 27.2 or later. All testing so far has used built-in trackpads.