Right edge
Slide up and down for volume, in the same steps as the volume keys.
Brightness
Volume
Media
Drag along an edge of the trackpad above. Go on, it's live.
For MacBook trackpads
TrackEdge turns the edges of your trackpad into volume and brightness sliders. No keys to hunt for. No menus to open.
One-time purchase · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon
Drag along an edge of the trackpad above. Go on, it's live.
The middle of your trackpad works exactly as before. TrackEdge only listens to a thin strip along each edge, and only when a touch starts there.
Slide up and down for volume, in the same steps as the volume keys.
Brightness of the built-in display, with the familiar on-screen indicator.
Double-tap to mute. Double-tap again and the sound is back.
Swipe sideways to skip to the next or previous track. Tap to play or pause, if you like.
The small things are the whole point. TrackEdge was tuned slide by slide until it stopped feeling like an add-on.
Every step comes with a light haptic click from the Force Touch trackpad, so you can feel the level change without looking.
While you slide, the cursor freezes in place and comes back exactly where you left it.
Resting hands, typing and clicks near the edge don't count. A gesture must start inside the edge.
Hold Shift and Option while sliding for quarter steps, just like the keyboard.
The same volume and brightness display macOS shows for the keys. Nothing new to learn.
Put brightness on the right, limit slides to the lower part of the trackpad, require a modifier key, or set how wide the edges are and how fast they respond.
Touches never leave your Mac. The only network traffic is a license check and update checks.
A native app in the menu bar. No Dock icon, next to no CPU while you work.
A short welcome guide grants the one permission TrackEdge needs, then lets you try each gesture on your own trackpad before you close it.
TrackEdge sits in your menu bar. Click it to see both levels at a glance, switch gestures on and off, or adjust how a slide feels. Everything else lives in Settings, set once and forgotten.
No subscription and no account. Your license key arrives by email a minute after checkout, with free updates for all of TrackEdge 1.x.
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MacBooks with Apple silicon and a Force Touch trackpad, on macOS 14 Sonoma or later. External Magic Trackpads are on the list for a later update.
No. A gesture only starts when your finger lands inside a thin edge strip (10% of the width by default), and TrackEdge ignores palms, typing and multi-finger gestures. You can make the edges narrower in Settings.
To press the volume and brightness keys for you and to keep stray clicks near the edge out of your apps. TrackEdge doesn't record what you type, and nothing leaves your Mac.
Download and open TrackEdge, then paste the license key from your purchase email. The welcome guide asks for it, and you can also find Enter License Key in the menu bar.
Open your account and sign in with the email you used at checkout: your key, receipts and activated Macs are there. To move to a new Mac, deactivate the old one in TrackEdge (Settings → About) or remove it in your account.
Yes. It needs the internet once to activate. After that it checks the license now and then and keeps working for 30 days without a connection.
Reading the edges of the trackpad and pressing system keys needs access App Store apps don't get. TrackEdge is signed by its developer and notarized by Apple, so macOS opens it without warnings.
