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PadBridge

DualShock, DualSense, Xbox or Switch Pro — in any game, even one that knows nothing about gamepads.

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Status: Coming soon
Platform: macOS
Version: 0.4.0

Item 08 · PadBridge

A / DescriptionWho it’s for

PadBridge turns gamepad input into keyboard and mouse. It works in itch.io and GOG games, browser games, Windows games via CrossOver, Whisky and Wine, emulators and regular apps. It recognises the game, offers a ready layout for its genre and switches profiles for the active app.

Who it’s forMac players who would rather hold a gamepad than a keyboard.

B / What it does04 features

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Button → key

Any button, stick or trigger can become a key, a shortcut or the mouse. A stick works as a mouse, and profiles switch for the active app.

PadBridge · demo 01 Interface demo

Celeste · Platformer Auto: Celeste

✕ → Space

○ → X

□ → Z

△ → C

L1 → Q

R1 → E

Left stick → Arrow keys

Right stick → Mouse

02 / 04

“New game”

Open an unfamiliar game and a window with genre layouts appears on top: platformer, shooter, strategy, visual novel, browser game. Pick one with the gamepad.

PadBridge · demo 02 Interface demo

✦

New game: Celeste Pick a type — the layout is ready. Found in a games folder.

Platformer

Shooter / action

Strategy

Visual novel

Browser game

Arrow keys on the left stick, Space to jump, Z / X / C for actions.

✕ Apply △ Teach ○ Not now ← →

Profile “Celeste” is on

03 / 04

Learn from your keyboard

PadBridge counts which keys you press in a game and lays them out on the gamepad: movement on the left stick, aim on the right, jump on the bottom button.

PadBridge · demo 03 Interface demo

Learn mode Play on the keyboard — PadBridge counts presses

W A S D

Mouse

Space

Shift

Left stick → W A S D

Right stick → Aim (mouse)

✕ → Jump

R2 → Shift

□ → E

△ → Q

Done — build the layout

04 / 04

Couch mode

The whole Mac from a gamepad: cursor, clicks, Mission Control, volume, music and an RU/EN on-screen keyboard. Plus layers, a radial menu and .padprofile sharing.

PadBridge · demo 04 Interface demo

Couch mode · L3 + R3

Q W E R T Y U I O P

A S D F G H J K L

Z X C V B N M ⌫

RU / EN Space ↵

C / How it works03 steps