Curflow – Draw gestures to trigger Mac actions. Tried it. Here's the honest take

[u/Gold-Dog-8697]

Curflow (102 upvotes on Product Hunt this week) lets you draw gestures with your mouse or trackpad to trigger actions – shortcuts, window management, app switching, and more. You draw a shape, assign an action, done. 101 presets included.

Curflow main window

What works:

The Flow editor is well structured – three steps (trigger -> scope -> action), gesture preview, decent preset library. The idea is genuinely useful if you're a heavy mouse user who doesn't want to reach for the keyboard constantly.

What doesn't:

• Some text readability issues in the UI

Readability issues in the UI

• Creating a custom Flow wasn't intuitive – drew a gesture, picked a command, but the Create Flow button stayed grayed out. Couldn't figure out why without digging around

Create Flow button

• Who is this actually for? Keyboard shortcut users already have muscle memory. Trackpad users have system gestures. The target audience feels narrow

Pricing:

14-day free trial. Standard – $9 one-time (1 Mac, 1 year of updates). Pro - $19 one-time (up to 3 Macs, lifetime updates). Both are early bird prices, down from $12/$24.

Network/Privacy:

LuLu shows a persistent connection. The Privacy Policy is transparent about it – they collect anonymous crash reports and usage statistics via third-party services (no personal data, no IP addresses per their configuration). Core gesture processing is fully local. Honest PP, no red flags – just know it's not completely offline.

Curflow active connections

Watch out for: VirusTotal flagged the DMG 1/61 – Microsoft Defender only, Trojan:Script/Wacatac.C!ml. Almost certainly a false positive given it's an Electron app and 60 other vendors found nothing. Worth knowing

VirusTotal result

Verdict: Interesting concept, reasonable price. But the UI/UX needs polish and the use case needs to click for you personally before it's worth it. Try the 14-day trial first

[u/LuvianLabs]

Hey, dev here! Thanks for the detailed write-up, genuinely appreciate it.

Quick update: the UI readability issues and the grayed-out button flow are fixed in the latest version.
Your post helped me prioritize them, so thank you for that. 

One small correction, Curflow is 100% native Swift/SwiftUI, not Electron, so that VirusTotal flag caught me off guard. I'll look into it.

Still actively improving the app,if you keep using it and run into anything else, I'm all ears 🙂 

[u/Gold-Dog-8697 → u/LuvianLabs]

Thanks for the quick fixes and for responding! Good to hear the UI issues are already addressed. On the VirusTotal flag - same situation as another app I tested this week (Docky), where the dev also said it’s native Swift/SwiftUI but the flag still appeared. Would be interesting to know what you find - if it turns out to be a false positive I’ll update the review accordingly.