PAD Wireless Mouse

Use your phone as a wireless mouse and touchpad

Your phone screen becomes a trackpad for your computer. Slide to move the pointer, tap to click, two fingers to scroll, and type with the phone keyboard. Perfect when the laptop is plugged into the TV across the room.

Slide to moveTap to clickTwo-finger scrollPhone keyboard
Open this on your computer

Use My Phone connects your phone to a computer, so the code you scan has to be on the other screen. Open this page there and you are paired in about ten seconds.

usemyphone.com/wireless-touchpad
Email myself the link

Nothing to install on either device, and every tool is free.

Scan to start
Ten seconds, then pick any tool
Waiting for phone…
Camera won’t scan it? Open /join on your phone and enter
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Laptop plugged into the TV

Sit on the sofa and still drive the computer across the room.

Presenting from the back of a room

Move the pointer and click without walking back to the lectern.

When the mouse dies

A phone in your pocket beats hunting for batteries.

In real use

What people use it for

The jobs this tool actually does, in enough detail to tell whether it fits yours.

Driving the TV computer from the sofa

The laptop is plugged into the telly and you are not next to it. Pointer, click, two-finger scroll and typing, all from the cushion.

Presenting from the back of the room

Move the pointer and click through anything on screen without walking back to the machine.

When the mouse dies mid-task

The phone gets you to the save button and through the rest of the afternoon.

Typing into the big screen

Search boxes and passwords typed on the phone land straight in whatever is focused on the computer.

Quick jobs on a machine with no peripherals

A mini PC or a test box with nothing attached — the phone is the input for the five minutes you need one.

Questions

Do I need to install anything?

Nothing on the phone. On the computer you click one button, which downloads a tiny launcher — open it and it starts the helper for you, with your session code already filled in. No installation, no administrator rights, and it stops the moment you close its window.

Why does this one need a helper?

No website on any operating system is allowed to move your mouse pointer — that restriction is the browser protecting you. The helper is the piece with permission to do it, and it only ever receives movement from your own phone.

Does it work on a Mac?

Not yet — the helper is Windows-only for now. Every other Use My Phone tool works on Mac, Windows and Linux.

Is it secure?

The helper needs the code shown on your own screen, the touchpad tool has to be open, and you have to approve it on the computer. Closing the tool disconnects it instantly.

Also free from Use My Phone: send a PDF for signature — twenty documents a month where the usual free plan gives three, ten signers on each, and nobody you send to needs an account.

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