I just found a Mac app that puts volume and brightness sliders on your MacBook’s touchpad edges
Your MacBook has keys to adjust volume and brightness, making it easy to adjust them. But what if you want to adjust the volume at night or you are watching your favorite movie on Netflix and don’t want to hunt for the keys and miss an important moment? I know these are small annoyances, but small annoyances add up, and I love apps that help me resolve them.
- ▪Your MacBook has keys to adjust volume and brightness, making it easy to adjust them.
- ▪But what if you want to adjust the volume at night or you are watching your favorite movie on Netflix and don’t want to hunt for the keys and miss an important moment?
- ▪I know these are small annoyances, but small annoyances add up, and I love apps that help me resolve them.
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| Publication time | Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:06:05 +0000 |
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Your MacBook has keys to adjust volume and brightness, making it easy to adjust them. But what if you want to adjust the volume at night or you are watching your favorite movie on Netflix and don’t want to hunt for the keys and miss an important moment? I know these are small annoyances, but small annoyances add up, and I love apps that help me resolve them. Today, I want to share an app that solves this issue by adding volume and brightness sliders to your MacBook’s trackpad. What does Slidr do? Slidr is a lightweight menu bar app for Mac that turns the edges of your trackpad into gesture zones. Slide along the right edge, and you control volume. Slide along the left edge to control the brightness.
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