Horizontal
Double swipe → your site
Two quick swipes the same way open the address you gave that direction. Free: one direction. Pro: both.
Five movements, none of them new
Your hand already makes all five. Glidepad only decides what they mean.
Horizontal
Single swipe → Back, as before
Nothing is taken away: one swipe still walks browser history. Leave a direction empty and there is no wait at all.
Vertical
Two flicks at the top → reload
The pull-to-refresh movement from your phone. Mid-page it stays ordinary scrolling. A new tab or closing one are yours to pick instead.
Pinch
Spread a link → background tab
Spread two fingers over a link and it opens behind what you are reading, like a middle click. Everywhere else, spreading still zooms.
Pro
Pinch
Pinch twice → close tab
Two quick pinches close the tab, only at normal zoom. While a page is zoomed in, pinching gives the zoom back and the tab stays.
Try it before you install
glidepad.app has a live pad that runs the real recognizer, and a full touchpad test.
Free to navigate. Pro for both directions.
Every threshold and the swipe takeover are free and stay free. Pro is the second half of each pair.
Free always
$0
- Double swipe to one site, in one direction
- Single swipe history navigation
- Two flicks at the top: reload, new tab, close tab or nothing
- Spread a link open in a background tab
- The browser’s own swipe navigation switched off, both ways
- Every threshold in the options page
- Your first three weeks with every Pro feature switched on
Pro
$12.99/ year
$1.08 a month, billed once a year
- Everything in Free
- Both directions, each with its own site
- Pinch twice to close the tab
- Return-to-tab mode
- New features as they ship
Cancel any time from the link in your receipt. Pro keeps working until the paid period ends. Prices in USD; whether tax is added depends on where you are, and the total is shown before you pay.
It reads wheel events. That is the whole story.
No account, no telemetry. The free version makes one request on install; Pro adds a licence check about once a day. Both go to glidepad.app and nowhere else.
- Accounts
- none
- Analytics, telemetry
- none
- Page content read
- none
- Network requests
- one on install; one a day in Pro
- Manifest permissions
- storage, activeTab, scripting
- Where settings live
- your browser sync
Privacy policy
Questions
Which browsers and which machines?
Chrome and Edge, built and tested on Windows with a precision touchpad. A Firefox build ships once it has had the same testing. macOS is not verified yet.
Will this break scrolling?
No. On the vertical axis Glidepad only watches. Sideways it steps in only when there is nothing left to scroll under the pointer.
Why does one swipe feel slightly delayed?
Because a second swipe might still be coming. The wait is 450 ms by default and yours to change; a direction with no site assigned has no wait at all.
Who am I buying from?
Glidepad is made and supported by Ivan Korost, working alone. Payment runs through a merchant of record that handles VAT and sales tax; its name is on the checkout and on the receipt.
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