Twist two fingers to turn the volume or the brightness up and down. Twist four to switch between them. Twirl is a small menu-bar app for Mac.
One payment, no subscription. macOS 14 or later.
Drag around the ring to turn it.
Two fingers
Rest two fingers on the trackpad and turn them like a knob. Clockwise raises, counter-clockwise lowers. A dial appears while you turn and fades when you lift your fingers. Let go mid-twist and it spins on, like a weighted knob.
Four fingers
Twist four fingers to flip the dial between volume and brightness, and twist back to flip again without lifting your hand. Then go back to two fingers to adjust.
On a Force Touch trackpad the dial clicks under your fingers as it turns, like the detents on a real knob.
No Dock icon and no window to manage. Twirl sits in the menu bar and waits for a twist.
Set how far you turn for a full sweep, from quick flicks to fine control.
No account, no analytics, nothing collected. Twirl only goes online to check your license key.
$7, one time. No subscription, no account, nothing to renew.
Twirl for Mac
$7one-time
Your license key arrives by email. All sales are final. Checkout is handled by Dodo Payments.
Already have a key? Download Twirl.
Twirl looks for one specific motion: fingers turning around a common center. Scrolling and pinching move differently and are left alone. The exception is an app that uses the rotate gesture itself, such as Preview: a two-finger twist turns the dial there too, so pause Twirl from its menu when you want to rotate something.
The built-in display on a MacBook, and Apple displays. Third-party external monitors aren’t supported.
Any output macOS can adjust in software: the built-in speakers, AirPods, and most Bluetooth and USB audio. Some outputs have a fixed level, such as certain HDMI monitors and audio interfaces, and Twirl can’t change those either.
A Mac with a trackpad, running macOS 14 or later. Apple silicon and Intel are both supported. The haptic ticks need a Force Touch trackpad.
No. You pay $7 once and the license doesn’t expire.
No. Twirl is a single payment of $7, and the dial starts turning once you enter your license key. The dial at the top of this page shows how it looks and moves, and the answers above cover which Macs, displays and sound outputs it works with.
It appears on screen right after checkout, and Dodo Payments emails it to you as well. Click Activate on that page, or click the Twirl icon in the menu bar, choose Settings, then License, and paste the key.
A license key works on one Mac at a time. To move it to a new Mac, deactivate it on the old one under Settings, then License, and enter it on the new one. If you can’t get to the old Mac, email support@twirldial.com and we’ll free the key for you.
No. All sales are final, so please check the answers above about displays, sound outputs and what you need to run it before you buy. If Twirl doesn’t work on a Mac that meets them, email support@twirldial.com and we’ll help you get it working. The details are on the refunds page.
No. There are no analytics and no account. Twirl contacts Dodo Payments to activate and check your license key, and that is the only thing it sends. The privacy page has the full picture.
Twirl reads trackpad touches across the whole system so the twist works in any app. Sandboxed App Store apps aren’t allowed to do that, so Twirl is sold here instead.