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Tactile
Feel every button, link, and menu on your Mac trackpad
Tactile is a free, open-source macOS menu-bar app that taps your trackpad's haptic engine whenever the cursor passes over anything clickable — every button, link, menu, and tab, system-wide, in any app. Feel the interface, not just see it.
Hey hunters 👋
I'm Mason, the maker of Tactile.
Macs have this genuinely great haptic trackpad, and macOS basically only uses it for clicks. Meanwhile most apps just nudge a button's color a little on hover, which is easy to miss. I kept wishing I could actually feel when my cursor was on something clickable.
So I built Tactile. It lives in your menu bar and taps the trackpad whenever your cursor moves over anything you can click, a button, link, checkbox, menu, tab, Dock icon, in pretty much any app. It reads the same system accessibility info VoiceOver uses, so it works almost everywhere instead of app by app.
A few things I cared about while building it:
It's genuinely doing nothing when you're not moving (0% CPU), so it's easy on the battery.
No network of its own, no analytics, no telemetry. It only ever reads the kind of thing under the cursor, never your content or what you type.
You can shape every feel: presets or your own waveforms per element type, a scarier feel for destructive stuff like Delete, optional visual aids (cursor ring, element outline, crosshair, labels) for low vision, keyboard haptics, and more.
It started life as an accessibility aid, and that's still the heart of it.
It's free and open source (MIT). You just need a Force Touch trackpad and macOS 14.6+.
I'd love to hear what you think, especially where it feels great or where it gets annoying. Happy to answer anything 🙏
GitHub: https://github.com/Mason363/Tactile
Site: https://tactile.masn.studio
About Tactile on Product Hunt
“Feel every button, link, and menu on your Mac trackpad”
Tactile was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #142 on the daily leaderboard. Tactile is a free, open-source macOS menu-bar app that taps your trackpad's haptic engine whenever the cursor passes over anything clickable — every button, link, menu, and tab, system-wide, in any app. Feel the interface, not just see it.
On the analytics side, Tactile competes within Open Source, User Experience, GitHub and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 488.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Tactile performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Tactile?
Tactile was hunted by Mason Chen. 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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