Control your music with hand gestures.
Ever changed a song while driving? Gestura lets you skip, pause and turn it up with a gesture your phone's front camera can see — so your eyes stay on the road and your hands stay on the wheel.
The song changes. Your attention shouldn't.
Skipping one track means finding the phone, waking it, finding the app, then finding the right button. Four or five seconds you meant to spend somewhere else entirely.
At the wheel
The one song you don't want to hear starts, and the phone is in the cradle just far enough away to make you lean for it.
In traffic
Both hands where they belong, a roundabout coming up, and the podcast needs pausing because the call you were waiting for just came through.
On the motorway
The road noise rises and the track drops to a mumble, so you go hunting for the volume buttons by feel.
Five seconds with your eyes off the road at 55 mph covers the length of a football field. — NHTSA
Your music listens to you, not the other way round.
Six signs, read by the front camera, mapped to the controls you actually reach for. Here's what you get out of it.
- Your eyes stay where they were. Skip, pause or change the volume without looking for a button.
- Your hands stay on the wheel. No reaching for the cradle, no unlocking, no hunting for a button on a moving screen.
- Keep the app you already use. On Android, Gestura drives whatever is playing — Spotify, YouTube Music, your podcast app. Nothing to rebuild.
- Nothing leaves your phone. Recognition runs on-device. No account, no cloud, and no video is ever recorded or stored.
- Nothing to train. No setup session, no per-user calibration — install it, pick a hand, go.
- One payment. Free for seven days, then a single unlock. Not a subscription.
We built it because we kept reaching for the phone anyway
Gestura started on a long drive and a playlist that wouldn't behave. Every model in the app was trained on hand data we recorded ourselves, it runs entirely on the device, and it has been tuned over hours of real driving rather than on a desk.
Three steps, then you can forget it's there.
Gestura runs an on-device hand tracker, classifies your sign, then routes the action to whatever's playing.
Install it and pick your hand
Left, right or both. Choosing one hand sharpens recognition and keeps a passenger's hands out of it.
Prop the phone where it can see you
Any cradle or ledge will do. The front camera tracks 21 points on your hand, about 30 times a second.
Make the sign
Play, pause, skip and volume — across Spotify, YouTube Music, Pocket Casts and any media-session app.
On Android, it runs in the background — even with your phone locked
Open your media app and keep it focused — that's how Gestura is meant to be used. On Android the camera tracker also keeps running while the phone is locked, so a quick gesture is enough to skip a track without ever waking the screen. On iOS, keep Gestura on screen — Apple gives the camera to whichever app is in front.
A vocabulary you'll remember in a minute.
Six signs, mapped to the controls you actually use.
Hold an open palm for three seconds to end the session. Thumbs up or down holds to keep the volume moving.
Different on each platform — by design.
On Android, Gestura can drive whatever you're already listening to. Apple doesn't allow that, so on iOS Gestura plays the music itself — you sign in to Spotify or Apple Music inside it and control it from there.
Gestura sends play / pause / next / previous through Android's
MediaSession bus. If the app shows a play / pause card
in your notification shade, Gestura can drive it — keep listening
the way you already do.
- Auto-start & stop with playing media
- Keeps running while the screen is off
- Hardware volume — thumbs up / down, hold to keep going
iOS doesn't let one app drive another app's playback, so Gestura is the player. Sign in to Apple Music (MusicKit) or Spotify (official iOS SDK, Premium required) and Gestura streams through its own player — search a track, pick a playlist, then control it with your hand.
- Search, playlists, queue — inside Gestura
- Touch player or hands-free session
- Keep Gestura on screen — iOS pauses the camera behind other apps
— Thumbs up / down move the iOS system volume, hold to keep going —
Gestura keeps the camera on while it's watching, so a charger is a good idea on longer drives. It's a convenience feature, not a safety device — mount your phone securely, set it up before you set off, and keep your eyes on the road.
Free for seven days. Then one payment.
No subscription, no ads, no account. Use everything for a week; if you keep it, you buy it once and it stays yours.
- Every gesture and every setting
- No card, no account, no sign-up
- Starts when you first open the app
- Keeps working after the trial ends
- Not a subscription — nothing recurring
- Includes future updates on the platform you bought it on
— price shown in the app for your country —
The things everyone asks first.
Does Gestura record or upload video?
No. The camera feed is analysed frame by frame on your device and discarded. No video or photo is ever recorded, stored or transmitted, and there is no account behind it. You can optionally share anonymous hand-landmark data — numeric joint coordinates, not images — to help improve detection. It is off by default and you choose when to send it.
Does it work with Spotify?
Yes, on both platforms — the route just differs. On Android it works alongside YouTube Music, podcast apps and anything else that shows a play/pause card in your notification shade. On iOS, Apple doesn't let one app drive another app's playback, so Gestura is the player: you sign in to Apple Music or Spotify (Premium required) inside Gestura and control it from there.
Is it safe to use while driving?
Gestura is built to keep your hands where they are, but it's a convenience feature rather than a safety device. Mount your phone securely and set your gestures up before you set off. Rules on phone use behind the wheel differ from country to country, so do check what applies where you drive — and keep your eyes on the road.
What about battery?
Watching for gestures keeps the camera on, so Gestura uses more power than playback alone. On a short trip you won't really notice. On a long drive, pop the phone on the charger it's probably sitting next to anyway.
Does it work in the dark?
Daylight and normal indoor light are no problem, and a low-light boost setting covers dusk and street lighting. In proper darkness the camera has nothing to work with, so that's where it stops.
Will it pick up a passenger's hands?
That's what the hand picker is for. Choose left, right or both in the settings — a hand-specific model is more accurate anyway, and one hand plus a sensible phone position keeps the other seat out of frame.
What does it cost?
Free to download with a 7-day trial of everything. After that, a single one-time purchase unlocks the app permanently. It is not a subscription and there is no recurring charge; you can buy any time during the trial.
When does it launch?
Gestura is in private beta while we finish the on-device tracker. Leave your email below and we'll send one message the day it's on the stores.
On the App Store and Google Play.
Gestura is in private beta while we polish the on-device tracker. The full release is landing on both stores — drop your email and we'll ping you the day it ships.
No spam. One email at launch.
See it in your hand.
Open the live demo — it tracks your hand in the browser, on your device, and drives a real player.
Launch demo