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Gesture-control projects on GitHub

Controlling apps with hand gestures captured by camera

As of , the most-starred Gesture-control projects on GitHub are niri (28.5K stars), Valdi (16.4K stars) and pilipala (13.8K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 11 Gesture-control repositories with 63.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was niri, with +22 stars in a day.

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63.9KStars in total
+48Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+22

niri

niri-wm/niri · ★ 28.5K

niri is a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor for Linux, written in Rust on top of Smithay. Its signature idea: windows sit in columns on an infinite strip that scrolls to the right.

+7

StarPie

Star-Pie/StarPie · ★ 1.2K

StarPie (星盘) is a lightweight radial/pie-menu and mouse-gesture tool for Windows 10/11 that lets you trigger hotkeys, launch apps, open URLs, folders, run commands, manage windows and run screen OCR by holding a mouse button and flicking toward a sector.

+7

mactap-app

jaskirat1616/mactap-app · ★ 691

MacTap lets you knock on your MacBook's chassis (or the desk under it) to trigger shortcuts like copy, paste, Accept, screenshots, or media controls.

+6

barehands

jaredrhod/barehands · ★ 1.1K

Barehands turns your webcam into a hand-tracked interface for an AI: notes, images, and 3D models float over your camera feed as glass cards that you pinch, throw, stretch, and explode apart with your bare hands, no headset or controllers required.

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11 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · niri-wm/niri

    niri

    niri is a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor for Linux, written in Rust on top of Smithay. Its signature idea: windows sit in columns on an infinite strip that scrolls to the right.

    28.5K
  2. #2 · Snapchat/Valdi

    Valdi

    Valdi is a cross-platform UI framework from Snap: write your UI once in declarative TypeScript, and it compiles directly to native views on iOS, Android, and macOS.

    16.4K
  3. #3 · guozhigq/pilipala

    pilipala

    PiliPala is an unofficial third-party client for the Chinese video platform Bilibili, built with Flutter. It lets you browse, watch and interact with Bilibili videos, live streams and anime from your phone outside the official app.

    13.8K
  1. 4

    StarPie

    1.2KStar-Pie/StarPie · C#

    StarPie (星盘) is a lightweight radial/pie-menu and mouse-gesture tool for Windows 10/11 that lets you trigger hotkeys, launch apps, open URLs, folders, run commands, manage windows and run screen OCR by holding a mouse button and flicking toward a sector.

  2. 5

    barehands

    1.1Kjaredrhod/barehands · HTML

    Barehands turns your webcam into a hand-tracked interface for an AI: notes, images, and 3D models float over your camera feed as glass cards that you pinch, throw, stretch, and explode apart with your bare hands, no headset or controllers required.

  3. 6

    itsgiving

    1.1Kgazijarin/itsgiving · Python

    It is a webcam tool that detects your facial expression or hand gesture and overlays a matching meme on top of your face in real time, tracking you as you move in frame.

  4. 7

    mactap-app

    691jaskirat1616/mactap-app · Swift

    MacTap lets you knock on your MacBook's chassis (or the desk under it) to trigger shortcuts like copy, paste, Accept, screenshots, or media controls.

  5. 8

    omacosy

    691paulsp94/omacosy · C

    omacosy is an omarchy-style desktop environment setup for macOS that adds real tiling window management with a Hyprland-like dwindle layout, a custom status bar, a real Super key, focus-follows-mouse, trackpad workspace swipes, and a live workspace overview, all installed from one repo.

  6. 9

    meowmeowcatcam

    253catherpiee/meowmeowcatcam · Python

    A webcam gesture-meme detector: it watches your hand gestures and head movements through your camera and pops up a matching cat meme next to your live feed in real time.

  7. 10

    morphnext

    179KickNext/morphnext · Dart

    morphnext is a Flutter library that turns built-in IconData glyphs into interruptible, spring-driven vector morphs between icons, without needing separate animation assets for each icon pair.

  8. 11

    kinesis

    122callbacked/kinesis · Swift

    Kinesis is a native macOS app that lets you control your Mac using gestures from the Meta Neural Band (an EMG wristband): swipe between desktops, open Mission Control, control music, and pinch+turn for volume or brightness.

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