AirTouch

AirTouch is a macOS app built by a small independent team that aims to replace the mouse and keyboard with hand gestures read through the webcam you already own. Instead of tracking a special controller or wearing hardware, it extracts 21 hand landmarks per frame on the Apple Neural Engine, then drives the macOS cursor at the system level. Because it controls the pointer itself rather than integrating with individual programs, every app on your Mac works with it out of the box.

The gesture set is deliberately compact: a peace sign wakes tracking, a raised index finger moves the cursor, a thumb-and-index pinch clicks, a thumbs-up fires Return, two fingers scroll, an open-hand sweep switches apps, a snap closes the front window, and a fist opens Spotlight. The signature feature is Telepath 2, a voice agent activated by touching two fingers to your temple; it can open apps, search, click, write and send in a chained sequence, or switch into a clean dictation mode for typing into any text field.

Privacy is central to the design: frames are converted to geometry on-device and discarded within milliseconds, with no video, images or analytics leaving the Mac, and double-tapping Escape releases the camera instantly. At the time of review the product is in a pre-launch beta phase, requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later on Apple Silicon, and is positioned as a paid subscription app whose pricing will be announced at launch.