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Trackpal turns an iPhone into a Mac trackpad

trackpal.site ↗ · Useful Tools · score 79.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A free Mac utility that uses an iPhone as a wireless or USB trackpad, with familiar gestures and a one-minute setup.

Why it surfaced

Trackpal makes a concrete promise and explains its mechanics unusually well: 120 Hz touch capture, cursor updates paced to the display clock, UDP over Wi-Fi, and a measured 1.3 ms finger-to-cursor path over USB. The page also handles the practical details—Bonjour pairing, client-isolated Wi-Fi, right-click corners, scrolling, and text selection—instead of stopping at a vague product claim.

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