A little practice.
A natural next move.
Four gestures for supported webpage content. Start slowly, keep your hands visible, and use the local practice exercises to get comfortable.
Find your
next perspective.
Extend your index and middle fingers slightly apart. Move your hand to aim.
Select a gesture, then play to see an example. This is an illustration, not webcam recognition.
You stay in control.
Open your hands briefly to acquire or rearm control. The full camera view is usable; there is no rectangular detection zone.
The model detects at most two hands. Ambiguous, overlapping or lost hands pause actions. Hand matching uses position and palm size rather than relying on left/right labels.
It cannot establish that two hands belong to one person. In shared rooms, keep only your hands in the camera view.
Read the setup guide ↗Point
Two fingers set the direction.
Extend your index and middle fingers slightly apart and fold the others. Your palm or the back of your hand can face the camera. Move to aim.
The pointing pose takes priority over scrolling and zooming.
Click · Pro
A second hand makes the click.
Keep your pointing hand visible. Pinch thumb and index once with your opposite hand at the shown pointer target. Release to rearm.
Both hands must be visible. Website clicking and click practice require Pro.
Scroll
Pinch, move, release.
Lower the pointing pose. Pinch with one hand and move vertically or horizontally. Release to stop.
Default scroll speed is 1.5×. Momentum starts on; you can switch it off in Scroll options. Saved choices are preserved.
Zoom
Bring the details closer.
With no pointing pose, pinch both hands. Move them apart to zoom in, or together to zoom out.
Keep both hands clear of each other and inside the camera view.
A panel when you need it.
The side panel contains controls and a camera preview. Hide it and tracking stays active, while the panel preview stops.
A badge at the bottom-right shows the detected gesture in green, or an amber pause when tracking is uncertain. Use its chevron to hide the text and keep just the icon. The main button reopens the panel with a real mouse or keyboard click.
Stop means stop.
Stop releases the tracking camera and the page controller. Revoking a required permission also stops tracking.
Camera and optional website access are requested separately through explicit setup. Start never silently grants consent. Audio is not requested.
Where it works, and where it doesn’t.
HandBrowse is a Manifest V3 desktop extension for Chrome and Edge. The current minimum Chrome version is 116. Find official store links on the installation page.
- Protected browser pages are unsupported. File URLs require a separate browser setting.
- Some cross-origin frames, closed shadow roots, canvas and custom controls do not respond.
- Synthetic clicks cannot replace trusted browser actions, including some file pickers.
- There is no dragging, right-click, operating system control or browser-toolbar control.
- Lighting, camera hardware, visibility and occlusion affect recognition. Keep your usual input devices available.
HandBrowse is not a certified accessibility or medical device. The demonstration on this site is an illustration and does not test your camera.