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AirControl
Point at your Mac. Pinch to click. Fist to scroll.
A menu bar app that turns the Mac's webcam into a controller. Open hand moves the cursor, pinch clicks, fist scrolls, thumbs-up presses Enter. Apple's hand tracking runs on-device at 30 fps and nothing leaves the Mac. macOS 14+. $9.99 once until Nov 15, then $19. Two Macs.
The first version of this ran in a browser tab at 7 fps and could not tell a swipe from a wave. That was July. I threw it out and rewrote it natively on Apple's hand tracking at 30 fps, on-device.
AirControl sits in the menu bar and turns the webcam into a controller. Open hand moves the cursor, pinch clicks, hold the pinch to drag, fist to scroll, thumb out to switch desktops, pinch-hold on a text box to dictate, thumbs-up is Enter, peace sign turns it off.
Most of the work is in things you should not notice. Scroll used to be a middle-finger pinch and after an hour it hurt, so it became a fist. The cursor follows your fingertip but a drag follows your knuckle, because the tip wobbles while you grip. A One-Euro filter keeps the pointer still when your hand is still and loose when it moves. A practice window walks you through each gesture with a three second countdown.
Nothing leaves the Mac. No account, no analytics. Direct download, because the App Store sandbox blocks the accessibility APIs that move windows. Free 3-minute demo in the app, no key needed, so you know your webcam and your patience are good enough before you pay. $9.99 once until Nov 15, then $19. Two Macs, 14 day refund.
Which gesture would you actually use every day, and which one sounds like a gimmick?
About AirControl on Product Hunt
“Point at your Mac. Pinch to click. Fist to scroll.”
AirControl was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #414 on the daily leaderboard. A menu bar app that turns the Mac's webcam into a controller. Open hand moves the cursor, pinch clicks, fist scrolls, thumbs-up presses Enter. Apple's hand tracking runs on-device at 30 fps and nothing leaves the Mac. macOS 14+. $9.99 once until Nov 15, then $19. Two Macs.
On the analytics side, AirControl competes within Mac, Productivity and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 779.7k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how AirControl performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted AirControl?
AirControl was hunted by Ronak Toprani. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Ronak Toprani
The first version of this ran in a browser tab at 7 fps and could not tell a swipe from a wave. That was July. I threw it out and rewrote it natively on Apple's hand tracking at 30 fps, on-device.
AirControl sits in the menu bar and turns the webcam into a controller. Open hand moves the cursor, pinch clicks, hold the pinch to drag, fist to scroll, thumb out to switch desktops, pinch-hold on a text box to dictate, thumbs-up is Enter, peace sign turns it off.
Most of the work is in things you should not notice. Scroll used to be a middle-finger pinch and after an hour it hurt, so it became a fist. The cursor follows your fingertip but a drag follows your knuckle, because the tip wobbles while you grip. A One-Euro filter keeps the pointer still when your hand is still and loose when it moves. A practice window walks you through each gesture with a three second countdown.
Nothing leaves the Mac. No account, no analytics. Direct download, because the App Store sandbox blocks the accessibility APIs that move windows. Free 3-minute demo in the app, no key needed, so you know your webcam and your patience are good enough before you pay. $9.99 once until Nov 15, then $19. Two Macs, 14 day refund.
Which gesture would you actually use every day, and which one sounds like a gimmick?