No phone app. No account. No subscription.
Air Mouse turns the phone you already own into a contactless, camera-based mouse for Windows, macOS and Linux. Install one desktop app, scan a QR code, and point.
Illustration. Not a screenshot.
Features
Hand tracking, gestures and safety controls, without a single extra piece of hardware.
The phone's browser finds your hand and fingertip locally, then sends only a position, a confidence score and the current gesture. The hand-tracking model ships inside the app, so nothing is downloaded while you work.
No gestures to memorise. Point, pinch, scroll.
Reach for your coffee without moving the cursor. Show your palm for about a second to pause, and again to resume.
Tell Air Mouse where the phone sits, then calibrate once so the cursor lands where you point.
Pause, disconnect, a lost camera or a lost hand releases any held button immediately. A global hotkey and a STOP TRACKING button are always in reach.
Three ways to point
Switch modes from the desktop app. The phone follows.
Prop the phone up facing you and use your hand in mid-air. Fully contactless.
Hold the phone like a remote and aim. Its motion sensors steer the cursor, from the sofa or across a room.
The phone's screen becomes a trackpad. Familiar, precise and quiet.
How it works
Three steps, and your phone stays a plain web browser the whole time.
Install Air Mouse on your computer. It starts a secure server on your own network and shows a QR code.
Scan the code with your phone's camera. Approve the phone on your computer once, and it's remembered.
Allow camera access, hold your hand in view and move your index finger. Pinch to click.
What happens to every frame
Privacy and safety
A camera pointed at you deserves strict rules. Air Mouse keeps video on the phone and keeps everything else on your network.
Hand tracking runs in the phone's browser. Camera frames are never sent to your computer, and nothing ever uploads them.
Phone and computer talk directly over HTTPS on your Wi-Fi, and connections from outside private network ranges are refused. The only thing the app ever sends to the internet is its license check: your key and computer name, never camera or hand data.
Pairing codes are single-use and short-lived. A new phone can't move your mouse until you approve it on the desktop.
Anything that stops tracking also releases a held button, so a dropped connection never leaves your mouse stuck down.
Pricing
Pay once. No subscription, no account to create, nothing to renew.
Regular price $99Launch price $45once, in USD
Everything in Air Mouse, on the computers you use every day.
Secure checkout by Stripe. The key goes to the email address you pay with.
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Already bought it and lost your key? Have it re-sent.
Download
One desktop app for every system, activated with the key from your purchase email. The phone just opens a web page.
Installer .exe (x64, arm64) or .msi (x64).
Can't control elevated windows or the lock screen. Air Mouse pauses and tells you.
DownloadWindowsDisk image .dmg for Intel and Apple silicon.
Asks for the Accessibility permission the first time, so it can move the pointer.
DownloadmacOSApple silicon. Intel Mac: download here.
.AppImage, .deb and .rpm (x64, arm64).
X11 works out of the box. Wayland needs access to /dev/uinput.
x64 AppImage. Also: arm64 · .deb · .rpm · .deb arm64 · .rpm arm64
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Verify a download against its SHA-256 checksums. The macOS app is signed and notarized by Apple. The Windows installers are not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn you the first time you open one: choose More info, then Run anyway.
Open the link in Safari. No App Store, no install.
Open the link in Chrome. No Play Store, no install.
FAQ
No. The desktop app serves a small web page. Your phone opens it in Safari or Chrome after you scan the QR code, so there is no store listing and nothing to update.
No. Hand tracking happens inside the phone's browser. Only a fingertip position, a confidence score and a gesture name are sent to your computer. Air Mouse has no account and no analytics, and the only server it talks to is the license check.
Only briefly. Your phone and computer need to be on the same local network, and nothing is fetched from the internet while you use Air Mouse; the hand-tracking model is bundled with the app. The app does go online to activate your key, and about once a week to renew the license in the background. If you are offline it keeps working for up to 30 days.
You pay $45 once. Stripe emails a receipt and we email your license key to the same address, usually within a minute. Install the app, paste the key and you're done. There is no account and no login.
One key covers up to 10 of your computers. Each computer you activate uses one slot.
Your license key, an anonymous id for the installation, the computer's name and its operating system, plus the app version. The weekly renewal repeats the id. Nothing about your camera, your hand or what you do with the mouse is ever sent, and the app has no analytics.
Yes. In Air Mouse, open Settings › License and choose Deactivate this computer; that frees its slot straight away. If an old computer is gone or broken, contact us and we will free the slot for you.
Use the re-send page and enter the email address you paid with. If that address bought a license, the key is emailed again. Check your spam folder if it doesn't arrive.
Not at the moment: Air Mouse stays locked until a key is entered.
Phones only allow camera access on secure pages, so Air Mouse creates its own certificate for your computer. Because it isn't issued by a public authority, your phone shows a warning the first time.
You can continue past the warning, or download the certificate from the desktop app and install it on the phone to remove the warning for good.
Make sure both devices are on the same Wi-Fi network, that it isn't a guest network (those often block device-to-device traffic), and that no VPN is isolating local devices. On Windows, allow Air Mouse through the firewall for private networks. The desktop app has a checklist and can add the firewall rule for you.
Moving the system pointer is a protected action. macOS asks for the Accessibility permission, and Linux on Wayland needs access to /dev/uinput. Windows can't control elevated windows or the lock screen, so Air Mouse pauses there and tells you why.
Yes. The Gestures tab in the desktop app lets you remap what each gesture does, and the sensitivity and smoothing sliders tune how the cursor feels.
Install Air Mouse, scan a code and point. Your phone does the rest.