Alternative computer input & remote control
Tools that let people control computers, Macs, and TVs through unconventional inputs—phones as trackpads/remotes, gestures, voice, game controllers, custom keyboards, macro pads, and keyboard remapping.
Built for: Mac/PC power users and couch users
Projects since May 04
127
Different builders
123
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
▲ +27%
AI is the core
3.9%
Projects per week
Mostly desktop app (47%), mobile app (32%), web app (9.4%) · from r/SideProject, r/vibecoding, r/IMadeThis, r/ShowYourApp
Latest
- ScrollFix — Gives mouse-wheel scrolling a Windows-style direction, adds middle-click autoscroll, and maps Home/End keys with Shift selection on macOS.“I built a free Mac app because I wanted my mouse to feel like Windows”
- Quickulate — Runs browser-based hardware tests for keyboard keys, mouse double-clicks, dead pixels, microphone, speakers, and controllers.“I built a free site to test your keyboard, mouse and screen without downloading anything”
- qliqr — Adds synthesized click and scroll sounds and on-screen click ripples to a Mac, with a built-in screen recorder that bakes them into videos.“Introducing Qliqr - Make every click feel like something”
- Airmouse app for Android — Turns an Android phone into a Bluetooth mouse that moves the computer pointer when the phone is pointed at the screen.“Airmouse app for Android”
- purrpad — Plays a cat-like purr through a MacBook trackpad's haptic engine when the user rests a hand on it, with no sound.“My trackpad purrs when I rest my hand on it. Sometimes it looks at me and decides not to.”
- FeelMyMac — Turns a Mac trackpad into a haptic surface that produces textures and sound feedback.“We just launched a new website for FeelMyMac 🚀”
- PowerPointer Clicker — Turns an Android phone into a Bluetooth presentation clicker that changes slides with the volume keys and can move the PC mouse by pointing the phone.“Free PowerPointer Clicker for Android”
- AirMirror Pro — Receives AirPlay screen mirroring from iPhones on Windows PCs.“I built an AirPlay receiver for Windows and found out why it got choppy after a minute: Windows' delayed TCP ACKs”
- FunOura — Turns an Oura ring into a gesture-based input device for controlling the Mac cursor, clicks, scrolling and media.“I turned Oura ring into a controller for Mac”
- Clink — Provides a customizable iPhone keyboard with themes, layouts, swipe typing, autocorrect, predictions, and plugins.“I built an iPhone keyboard because I was bored of every keyboard looking the same”
- Lume — Lets users remotely control their desktop computer from another device.“Lume - open source remote control.”
- FeelMyMac — Adds simulated haptic textures to Mac trackpad cursor movement and scrolling.“FeelMyMac: an app that lets you feel different textures through your Mac’s trackpad”
- aTV RC — Controls an Apple TV from an Android phone over the local network, including remote keys, text entry, media playback, app launching and screen casting.“I made an Apple TV Remote for Android”
- Turns a mobile phone into a game controller with gyroscope input, vibration, and haptic feedback modeled on the PS5 DualSense.“I made a mobile controller just like a ps5 dual sense but in a mobile device with gyro, vibration,heptic feed back and more features so should I make it publically available or not?”
- Spatial Display — Lets an iPhone control a Mac by displaying its monitors around the user in virtual space, navigated by moving the phone.“I launched a spatial remote desktop for iPhone + Mac”
- SplitKeyboard — Provides a customizable split on-screen keyboard for iPad that can be positioned, resized and split to fit the user's thumbs.“SplitKeyboard - an iPad keyboard you can fit to your thumbs”
- Provides a custom keyboard that converts typed text into decorative or stylized character forms.“My first app is a keyboard that makes plain text illegal (•ᴗ•)”
- Keycast — Draws an on-screen keyboard that lights each key, mouse button, or gamepad button while it is pressed.“My keyboard overlay's 104-key layout draws 103 keys, and the missing one is the whole design”
- Reachbeam — Lets users control their own computers from a phone or tablet over RDP, VNC, SSH, or macOS Screen Sharing, connecting directly without a relay server.“I built Reachbeam, a touch-first mobile remote desktop client (RDP/VNC/SSH), no accounts, no relay”
- Maps webcam-recorded body poses to keypresses so striking a pose fires a bound key.“I built a tool where you strike a pose once and it becomes a keybind — no code”
Most discussed
- WinDuo — Mimics the iPhone Duo fold screen effect on a Windows laptop by using the webcam to estimate hinge angle.“WinDuo: the iPhone Duo fold effect on any Windows laptop”
- Moves the mouse cursor to where the user is looking using eye patches from a webcam, with a pinch gesture to click.“Eye-tracking cursor from a plain webcam”
- EdgeSlide — Turns the left and right edges of a Windows touchpad into swipe sliders that adjust brightness and volume.“I made a small Windows tool that turns the edges of your touchpad into sliders for brightness and volume”
- Entangle — Turns a phone into a remote trackpad for controlling a computer over the local network.“Less SaaS, More MIT”
- Mouseless — Controls the mouse pointer on macOS entirely from the keyboard.“Mouseless app for Mac OS”
- FunOura — Turns an Oura ring into a gesture-based input device for controlling the Mac cursor, clicks, scrolling and media.“I turned Oura ring into a controller for Mac”
- Provides a Linux alternative for configuring Logitech G gaming peripherals, replacing the Windows-only G Hub software.“I vibe coded Logitech G Hub for Linux”
- LazyBinger — Turns an iPhone into a universal remote for smart TVs and streaming devices, with optional camera-based intro skipping and voice control.“Most "free" TV remote apps make you pay a weekly subscription. So I built one that's actually free — and it auto-skips Netflix intros by watching your screen with the camera.”
- NeoShell — Lets a phone on the same Wi-Fi launch apps and run power, window, and browser actions on a Windows PC.“NeoShell – Launch any app or shut down your Windows PC from your phone over Wi-Fi”
- Moves the mouse cursor to the screen that currently has focus or a new popup, across a multi-monitor Mac setup.“I am building a Mac app which shifts your cursor the screen you're looking at”