Pawvis

What it does

PawVis turns your Mac’s webcam into a hand-tracked mouse, no extra hardware required. Raise your hand and the cursor follows, dip a finger to click, and fold two fingers to scroll. Map gestures to custom actions like window management or any app/command from a series of common gestures or train your own. Everything runs 100% on-device, and PawVis is free and open source. Enable optional voice control for hands-free commands, or pass computer-use tasks to Codex or Claude Code.

Pawvis turns your webcam into a touch-free pointing device: raise your hand in the air and the cursor follows, dip a finger to click, fold two fingers to scroll. All processing 100% on-device.

Pawvis reads your hand through the webcam: raise it and the cursor follows, dip a finger to click, fold two fingers to scroll. Train gestures of your own to fire any shortcut, app, or command. Nothing to touch, no frame ever leaves your Mac. The camera already built into your Mac watches your hand and tracks its 21 joints many times a second, using Apple's Vision framework. Nothing to wear, nothing to hold, no depth sensor, no hardware to buy. Sit down, hold up a hand, and your Mac can already see it. Tracking watches whenever it's on, but the cursor only follows once you show an open hand : all four fingers up, thumb free. Close a fist for a moment, or leave the frame, and it parks. A hand…from pawvis.app

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