Hands vs Touchless Browser
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hands
Surf the web without touching your screen using hand gestures. Ideal for cooking, repairs, or workouts, it allows vertical scrolling and page navigation. Offers an optional add-on for hands-free favorite page management.
- Hands-free vertical scrolling
- Gesture-based page navigation
- Optional 'Hands-free Favorites' add-on
- Customizable 'drop hand' gesture (iPhone only)
- Integrated help and feedback
- Bookmark favorite sites
- Time spent waiting meter
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Getting your hands dirty? With this app you can surf the web without touching the screen. It's fantastic for reading recipes while you cook, following repair instructions with greasy hands, working out, putting on makeup, or catching up on news while you are doing household chores whilst wearing gloves. This app has also proven useful to people with arthritis, or when fine movement is difficult or painful. You use similar gestures to those you would use on a touch screen, so it feels natural right away. IMPORTANT: watch the video here to see how the gestures work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWI7b9NzQPc Please take 10 seconds to check how to actually use the app before giving it 1 star review! Simply browse the web normally to the page you want, then put down or dock your device. You can now use upwards or downwards hand gestures in front of your phone to scroll the page vertically, or "swipe" sideways to move between your favorite pages. Features • Hands-free Browser has been in the top utility 10 apps in many countries worldwide. • Slick, fully functional web browser with vertical scrolling gesture support • Optional "Hands-free Favorites" add-on lets you navigate through all your favorite pages by swiping, 100% hands-free! • Bonus "Hands-free Favorites" feature: a "drop hand" gesture which you can assign to any browsing action you like! (iPhone only) • Get similar gesture features on your iPhone/iPad to those found on some other latest brands of phones, right now! • Integrated help and feedback tips to show you how the gestures work right away. • Bookmark your favorite sites quickly and easily. • Turn off the on-screen help, for advanced users. • "Time spent waiting for load" meter. See how much of your life you are wasting while waiting for webpages to load! • Prompt support from the developer, accessible from within the app. If you want a feature added or have some problems, the developer is happy to help. This app uses the front-facing camera and computer vision algorithms to detect hand motion over the device camera. It works reliably under normal lighting conditions, from distances of 20cm up to 1 metre.
Touchless Browser
Control your web browsing experience using only hand gestures detected by your device's camera. Ideal for situations where touching the screen is inconvenient or impossible, allowing for remote navigation and interaction with websites.
- Hand gesture recognition
- On-screen pointer
- Pinch-to-click functionality
- Gesture-based scrolling
- Back/Forward navigation via gestures
- Web search via audio input
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"Touchless Browser" is a browser that can be operated remotely by using the recognition of hand gestures by the camera. When you eat a hamburger and don't want to touch the screen with your dirty hands, When you want to move the recipe screen while cooking, When you want to operate from a distance such as the back seat of a car, When you want to operate the screen placed next to you from the bed, etc. Let's browse freely in various situations. App features - The camera recognizes the hand and the position appears as a pointer. - Pinching is equivalent to left-clicking the mouse. You can tap the link etc. - Moving while pinching is equivalent to dragging. You can scroll the screen. - You can perform the "back" operation by bending the ring finger and little finger and raising the other finger. - You can check the above operations at any time from the help in the app. - Twitter Live: display new tweets about the set word. What you can do remotely - Scroll - Click the link - "Back" "Forward" - Web Search using Audio Input Things that cannot be done remotely - Operation of special elements such as seek bar of video site Some websites do not work well with remote control, so try the websites you want to use during the free trial. - Recommended distance from screen to hand 30 cm to 200 cm - Recommended device Devices with A12bionic or higher chips (older models may not work) - Term of Use https://www.akikan.llc/remote_hand_browser/term_of_use.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Touchless Browser at 4.6 against Hands's 3.6. Touchless Browser also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 58%) and ads (none vs shown). Hands's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.1). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Hands sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Touchless Browser sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Touchless Browser holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Hands's written reviews are positive against 100% of Touchless Browser's.
Hands ships an update monthly, Touchless Browser daily. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hands | Touchless Browser |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (14 ratings) | 4.6 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | James Hudson | akikan LLC |
Customer experience
Hands
Touchless Browser
In-app purchases
Hands
- Hands-free Favorites$1.99
Touchless Browser
- Monthly Usage Fee1 Month trial$3.491 Month
- 1 month ticket$0.99
- Touchless Browser Lifetime Access$1.99
- 1 year ticket$7.99
Questions
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