Padoo · Your iPhone is your Mac's best controlling device

Three surfaces

Pick from the radial menu.

Trackpad

The glass behaves like the trackpad you already know, at about two milliseconds from finger to cursor.

Tap to click, two-finger tap to right click
Two fingers to scroll, pinch to zoom
Tap and a half to click and drag
Three-finger swipe between desktops

Air pointer

Point the phone at the screen and the cursor follows, like a remote.

Relative mode works instantly
Nothing to calibrate, tracks rotation

Streamer deck

A grid of glass keys carrying the apps' icons. Press one and that app comes forward.

Supports action keys, not just apps
Brightness and volume sliders, and more
Key gestures are configurable for maximal control

Padoo's trackpad surface on an iPhone held landscape: an empty black field with the focused app's key at the top and a five-app dock along the bottom. — **Trackpad**

Padoo's deck on an iPhone held landscape: fifteen glass keys wearing real Mac app icons, with brightness and volume sliders down either edge. — **Deck**

Padoo's air pointer surface on an iPhone held portrait: a click wheel with Drag and Right buttons either side, and the focused app named at the top. — **Air pointer**

Customize Padoo from your Mac.

The Mac app holds all of it: which apps sit on the deck, what each gesture fires, the thresholds a gesture has to cross, and how the glass itself is drawn.

Build the deck.

The list underneath is everything in your Applications folder. Drag one onto the grid and drop it where your thumb lands. A page holds fifteen keys, and you can add another page when you run out.

You place every key yourself
Icons are read from the app itself, at full resolution
Reorder by dragging, on the Mac, at any time

The deck editor: a fifteen-key grid above a searchable list of installed Mac apps.

Six gestures from every key.

Tap a key, hold it, or flick it toward any of four edges. Those six gestures can each fire something different. Set one default that applies to every app, then override the apps that need their own.

Tap, long press, and four directional flicks
Open the app, show its windows, or press a keystroke you record
Per-app overrides on top of the shared defaults

Key gestures: tap, long press and four drag directions, each bound to an action or a recorded keystroke.

Twenty-eight actions (and more to be added).

Each of those six gestures opens a menu. If none of the twenty-eight is what you meant, record a keystroke instead.

Peek, Focus, and Send selection here
Snap left, right, top, bottom, or fill the screen
Tabs and windows, Save, Find, Back and Forward

The action menu for a single flick, listing twenty-eight actions from Peek and Focus through window snapping to tab and window commands.

Per-app special gestures.

For example: Zoom does not need the same gestures as Finder. Padoo proposes a set for apps it recognises: pick Zoom and it offers mute on a flick up and camera on a flick down, which you take with one click or ignore. Directions you leave alone still fall through to the default, so binding one of them does not quietly clear the other three.

Any key on the deck can carry its own six bindings
Suggested sets for apps Padoo knows, applied in one click
Unset directions fall back to the shared default

Per-app key gestures for zoom.us, with a suggested set offering mute on flick up and camera on flick down, above six gesture rows reading Same as all apps.

Keys that are not apps.

The tabs beside Apps hold actions and sliders instead of applications. Mute the microphone across every app at once, mute the Mac, open a camera preview to check yourself before a call, or start a screen recording.

Live and streaming actions, ready to drop on a key
Search the library the same way you search apps
Sliders for brightness and volume, one per column

The action library: mute mic, mute sound, camera preview and record screen.

A second dock, on the trackpad itself.

The trackpad can carry up to five Mac apps along one edge, so switching app does not mean leaving the surface. You choose the apps, the edge they sit on, and which orientations show them.

Choose the apps, or let it track your most used
Bottom, left or right edge
Shown per orientation, so landscape can stay bare

Trackpad dock settings: contents, edge position, and which phone orientations show it.

Six looks for the trackpad.

Slate, Sketch, Blush, Midnight, Majestic and Ember. The preview cards on the Mac are drawn by the phone's own renderer, so the card you click is what the glass will look like. Midnight is pure black, which on an OLED screen means those pixels are switched off.

Sketch and Blush are drawn by hand in ink; Majestic and Ember light up under your finger
The look reaches the phone the moment you pick it

Six trackpad looks: Slate, Sketch, Blush, Midnight, Majestic and Ember.

The glass is a shader you can tune.

Refraction, colour split, highlight, edge width and edge light are computed per pixel on the phone. The preview on the Mac runs that same shader rather than a picture of it. Set every dial to zero and the keys cost the phone nothing to draw.

Three presets to start from, then five live dials
Changes reach the phone as a slider settles
A spectrum ring on every press, if you want one

$Deck glass settings: a live preview of three glass keys above refraction, colour split, highlight, edge width and edge light sliders.$

Nine thresholds, so it will be a perfect fit for you.

The sliders cover how far a finger may stray and still count as a tap, how long a hold waits before it turns into a drag, and how much of a swipe has to travel before it commits to a Space. Each one shows the shipped default beside your value, and one button restores them all.

Tap travel, drag confirmation, hold delay, swipe commit and more
The shipped value stays visible beside yours
Reset to shipped values in one click

Gesture tuning: nine sliders, each showing the current value beside the shipped default.