Control your phone without touching the screen!
Spatial Touch: control your phone with hand gestures
By Hafiz Rahman
Editor, tools and utilities
- Play, pause, skip and scroll videos without touching the screen
- Volume and navigation controlled by hand gestures
- Works with Shorts, Reels, TikTok and Netflix, per the listing
- Gesture recognition runs on the phone using on-device AI
- Camera data kept private, according to the developer
- Built for hands-free use in bed, while cooking or working out
What Spatial Touch does and who it suits
Spatial Touch is a gesture control app for Android phones. It reads hand movements through the camera and turns them into phone commands, so you can operate the screen from a short distance away.
It suits people who watch a lot of video on their phone and would rather not touch it while doing something else. The developer describes it as a way to control the phone with simple hand gestures, and its listed use cases are everyday moments when a phone is hard to reach or handle.
Controlling video apps from a distance
The listing names Shorts, Reels, TikTok and Netflix as apps you can control this way, along with others. Within those apps you can play and pause, skip videos, scroll through a feed and adjust the volume.
Navigation is also gesture-based, so you can move around the phone without reaching for it. The listing describes these controls as the core of the app, and they cover the basic actions you would otherwise do with a finger.
Using gestures with busy or messy hands
The developer lists specific situations the app is built for: watching videos in bed, working out, cooking with wet hands and eating. In each case the phone stays out of reach or your hands are not free to touch it.
Because the controls rely on hand movement rather than the screen, the app is aimed at moments when a touchscreen is impractical. It does not replace the phone's normal touch controls for other tasks.
How gesture recognition works on the device
Spatial Touch uses on-device AI to recognise hand gestures directly on the phone. According to the developer, this processing happens locally rather than on a remote server.
The developer states that camera data stays private while the app reads gestures. The listing does not describe any other sensing method, so the camera is the only input it names.
What's new
New Toolbar Menu – Added a movable toolbar for easier access to controls.
Shortcut Customization – Added new options to customize shortcuts.
Improved Action Recording – Enhanced stability and reliability.
Improved Gesture Recognition – Enhanced stability and responsiveness.
Improved App Stability – Bug fixes and performance improvements for a smoother experience.
Bug Fixes – Fixed volume control issues on some devices.
About this APK
The build we hold is Spatial Touch™ - Air Gestures 1.2.19 (APKS split bundle) for Android 10 and up.
- Version
- 1.2.19
- 222
- Requires Android
- 10+
- Target Android
- 16
- Package ID
- io.vtouch.spatial_touch
- Format
- APKS split bundle
- Malware scan
- Google Play Protect
- Permissions
- 27 declared · 2 sensitive
- Access app usage data
- Camera
- Signed by
- CN=Android, O=Google Inc.
- Certificate SHA-256
- 1cbdc112ebce30799fbd8ac61b1eb29d24e507fe572bd6d70719c672fc30cdcb
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