GazeWheel only needs one thing from your equipment: cursor movement. This is the equipment side — from built-in, zero-cost options to dedicated assistive eye trackers. Start with what you already have; upgrade when you hit its limits.
Try these first. They cost nothing and need no extra hardware.
Built into iPadOS and iOS accessibility settings since 2024: the front camera tracks your eyes and a dwell click selects. Works with GazeWheel in Safari on the same screen.
Built into Windows 10/11 (Settings → Accessibility). Needs a supported eye tracker connected, then moves the cursor and clicks by dwell system-wide.
If any body part can move a large trackball or a joystick, that is already enough. No special software needed.
Head or eye tracking with the camera you already own. Less precise than dedicated hardware, good for testing whether cursor typing works for you.
Free head tracking: the webcam follows your head movement and moves the cursor. Windows.
Free webcam eye tracking for Windows — moves the cursor with your gaze, no extra hardware.
Free, open-source on-screen keyboard and mouse control built for eye trackers — useful to control the rest of the computer beyond writing.
Purpose-built assistive hardware: precise, works in bed and in changing light, with professional support. This is the tier Tobii is known for.
Compact eye tracker for Windows computers and tablets, screens up to 27". With Windows Control software it clicks for you — with GazeWheel, keep dwell off in our settings and let it do the clicking. This is the setup GazeWheel was designed around.
Complete speech-generating devices (dedicated tablet + eye tracker + mounting), including a version built around the iPad. The full-package route, often covered by insurance or public health programs.
Eye tracker from Spain that works on both Windows and iPad. A strong Tobii alternative, common in Europe and Latin America.
US-made assistive eye tracker for Windows, known for working well with glasses and droopy eyelids.
If your head still moves well, these are cheaper than eye tracking and very precise.
Wireless gyroscopic mouse worn on the head (or cap, or glasses). Windows, Mac and Android.
Glasses-shaped head mouse with a choice of switches (bite, blink, finger) for the click.
Independence note: GazeWheel has no commercial relationship with any company on this page. Nothing here is sponsored and we earn nothing from these links — they are listed because they work with cursor typing. If that ever changes, it will be said here explicitly. Prices and availability vary a lot by country; in Brazil, check import taxes before ordering.