A free menu bar app for macOS

Your trackpad
has edges.

Slide them for volume, brightness and key light. Swipe the bottom to skip a track.

Download for Mac

Free · macOS 13+ · Apple silicon & Intel

Four edges, four controls

01

Volume

Right edge · slide

Up is louder. The display fills in sixteen steps, the same one your volume keys show.

02

Brightness

Left edge · slide

The screen follows your finger, with the sun you know from the brightness keys.

03

Key light

Top edge · slide sideways

Left dims the keyboard backlight. Right brings it back up.

04

Media

Bottom edge · swipe  /  Top-right corner · double-tap

Swipe the bottom edge to skip a track. Double-tap the corner to mute. Double-tap the bottom to play or pause, if you switch it on.

Drag an edge to try it

How it feels

The small things your hands notice.

  1. 01

    Haptic ticks

    Every step taps back under your finger. Off, Light, Medium or Strong.

  2. 02

    Fine Control

    Hold ⇧⌥ while you slide and each step splits into four. Precise Sliding makes it the default.

  3. 03

    Pointer stays put

    Slide an edge and the cursor waits exactly where you left it.

  4. 04

    Active Area

    Let a slide start anywhere on the edge, or only in the bottom ¾, half or quarter.

  5. 05

    Swap Sides

    Brightness on the right and volume on the left, if that suits your hands.

  6. 06

    Require Fn or ⌥

    Only slide while a key is held, so a resting thumb never changes a thing.

Also Magic Mouse support Light & Dark Liquid-glass panel Open at Login Updates install themselves

Every feature. No account, no trial, nothing to unlock.

Download for Mac

macOS 13 or later · Universal · Signed and notarized by Apple

Changelog

1.0

  • 01Volume on the right edge and brightness on the left, with the native macOS display.
  • 02Keyboard light on the top edge. Swipe the bottom edge to skip tracks.
  • 03Double-tap the top-right corner to mute. Optional double-tap to play or pause.
  • 04Haptic ticks, Fine Control and Precise Sliding.
  • 05Pointer hold, Active Area, Swap Sides and Require Fn or ⌥.
  • 06Magic Mouse support, Light and Dark, Open at Login, and updates that install themselves.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Brink changes volume and brightness by posting the same media keys your keyboard sends, and it holds the pointer still while you slide. macOS only allows both with Accessibility access. Nothing leaves your Mac.

Yes. Brink works with any multitouch trackpad, built in or external. There is a Magic Mouse mode too, which listens along the sides of the mouse.

Yes. Only a slide that starts inside the thin edge strip counts. Taps, clicks and scrolling behave as usual. If you still catch it by accident, narrow the edge width, limit the Active Area or require Fn or ⌥.

Yes. Every feature, no account and no trial. Download the disk image, drag Brink to Applications and it updates itself from then on.

Any Mac on macOS 13 Ventura or later. It is a universal app for Apple silicon and Intel, signed and notarized.

Brink is written in Rust on Tauri by Zerowing Studios, so it stays small and light. Builds are published on GitHub.

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