Local Pad

Your phone is the controller. Try it now!

Latest improvements:

• Cross-OS CI pipeline: every change now auto-tested on Ubuntu, macOS and Windows — the Mac/Windows input adapter is being compiled for the first time, closing the biggest release risk

• Crash-proof guarantees: locks recover from panics instead of killing the server, so "no key stays pressed" holds even in failure cases

• Stalled-phone protection: a dead connection can no longer freeze the safety watchdog; 3-second send timeouts end bad sessions cleanly

• Emulator link resilience: the Dolphin/DSU receiver now survives network hiccups instead of silently dying until restart

• Fixed a stricter-compiler lint CI caught on its very first run — proof the pipeline already earns its keep

• Phone as trackpad, keyboard, media and presentation remote, gamepad or motion controller

• One command, zero installs on the phone: everything runs in the browser

• QR pairing with single-use codes; local network only, no cloud, no accounts

• Eleven built-in layouts, plus importable custom JSON layouts

• Air mouse: point the phone like a wand to move the cursor

• DSU (CemuHook) motion streaming for Dolphin and other emulators

• Live dashboard with input monitor, latency, device list and one-tap emergency release

• Switch layouts instantly from the phone or the dashboard

• Per-device settings: pointer speed, scroll speed and direction, vibration

• HTTPS out of the box through a private local certificate authority

• Every held key and button is released on disconnect, timeout or shutdown

• One small Rust binary for macOS, Windows and Linux; open source under Apache 2.0

One command, zero installs on your phone. Run localpad serve, scan the QR code, and your phone is a controller in seconds. No app store, no account, no cloud: everything stays on your own Wi-Fi.

Eleven layouts out of the box: a gesture-rich trackpad with tap, scroll and drag; a remote keyboard; media and presentation remotes; GBA, SNES and Xbox-style pads for emulators; dual-stick and Wii-style motion controllers that stream straight into Dolphin over DSU; a tilt-to-steer wheel; and an air mouse where pointing the phone moves the cursor. Switch layouts live from the dashboard and the phone updates instantly.

A clean web dashboard shows connected phones, a real-time input monitor, latency and one-tap emergency release. Security is built in: single-use pairing codes, per-device tokens, rate limits, and a local HTTPS certificate authority that never leaves your machine. Every key releases on disconnect, so nothing ever sticks. Open source, Apache 2.0, written in Rust.