PadBench
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Test your controller.
Then use it everywhere.

A gamepad tester, calibration bench and couch remote for Android 4.3 and newer. No ads, no account, no internet.

Coming soon to Google PlayFeatures →

One-time purchase · Phone & tablet · Works offline

lit up live.

Gamepad tester

Every button,
lit up live.

Each press lights its glyph on a clear on-screen pad, with the key name, scan code and how long you held it. PadBench warns about chatter, lists unknown buttons by scan code, and keeps you on the screen when you test B.

  • A guided full test with a 0–100 health score and advice
  • Raw view of every axis and key for unrecognized pads
  • Most Bluetooth and USB controllers that Android recognizes
and noise, measured.

Sticks and triggers

Drift, circularity
and noise, measured.

A live 2-D plot shows each stick with its trail. Roll it once for a circularity score, leave it for three seconds to measure drift at rest, and squeeze the triggers to see their travel curve. Event rate and press-to-frame time are measured inside Android, and labeled that way.

  • Polling histogram with jitter and min/avg/max, CSV export
  • Deadzone estimate from the drift test, applied in one tap
  • Rumble, plus battery, lights and motion sensors on Android 12+
before and after.

Calibration

Deadzones and curves,
before and after.

Set inner and outer deadzones, radial or axial, an anti-deadzone and a response curve, and watch the before/after plot move with your stick. Invert or swap axes and fix swapped A/B buttons. Profiles are picked when that controller connects.

  • Linear, smooth, aggressive or your own curve
  • Profiles per controller, export and import as .padbench files
  • Applies to PadBench's own features and mapping
from the sofa.

Couch mode

Your phone,
from the sofa.

Back, Home, Recents, notifications, quick settings, music volume steps and media play, fast-forward and rewind from your controller, plus the power menu, split screen, lock and screenshot where your Android version offers them. The D-pad moves a focus ring over buttons in normal apps and A selects.

  • Every binding editable
  • Hold Select + Start to pause
  • Pauses by itself in apps you choose
press a button.

Basic touch mapping

Place a tap,
press a button.

Up to 16 controls in 8 layouts: tap, hold, toggle-hold, a virtual joystick on the left stick or D-pad (4- or 8-way), and a basic drag zone for the right stick. Set opacity, a snap grid and size, and share a layout as a file. On Android 7 and newer no PC is needed; on any version an optional helper you start with one PC command gives real multi-touch.

  • One press, one touch you placed; nothing runs by itself
  • Per layout: capture sticks, pass unmapped buttons
  • Fair-play notice before your first layout

And more

The small things,
done right.

Demo padNo controller yet? An on-screen pad drives the tester, calibration and editor inside PadBench.
Controller reportShare a text or CSV report, or a PDF on Android 4.4+. No personal data in it.
Tile and widgetToggle couch mode from Quick Settings and see your controller on the home screen.
20 languagesRight-to-left Arabic included, with Western digits in every language.
Pairing helpOpens Android's own Bluetooth settings, with offline how-tos. No Bluetooth or location permission.
Old phones welcomeSmall and fast on Android 4.3 and phones with 1 GB of RAM.