Wired-feeling response
Press a button and it lands in your game right now. Over normal home Wi-Fi, Dish feels just as fast as a controller plugged in with a cable, with no lag to fight even in fast games.
What makes Dish different.
Everything a modern controller does, sent over Wi-Fi and feeling like a wire.
Private and tamper-proof
Your inputs are locked to your two devices. Nobody else on the Wi-Fi can read them or sneak inputs into your game, so it's safe even on a coffee-shop, hotel, or dorm network.
Finds your PC by itself
Open Dish and your gaming PC shows up by name, usually in under a second. No IP addresses, no network settings to fiddle with.
Stays connected
If your Wi-Fi hiccups, Dish reconnects on its own, with no PIN and no menus. As far as your game is concerned, the controller never left.
Xbox, PlayStation, or Switch Pro
Pick what each controller looks like to your games: an Xbox pad that works everywhere, a DualShock 4 or DualSense with touchpad, motion, lightbar, and battery, or a Switch Pro. Set it per player.
Gyro aim and motion
Tilt to aim and steer with gyro, the same fine-targeting trick you get on a DualSense or Switch Pro. No motion pad? Your phone's own tilt works too.
DualSense touchpad gestures
Two-finger swipes, taps, and the touchpad click all reach your game, whether the pad is on USB or Bluetooth. No DualSense in hand? Your phone's screen can stand in as the touchpad.
Lightbar that matches the game
When a game sets the lightbar, to flash a warning or show your health, that color shows on the controller in your hand. It works over USB, and over Bluetooth on the desktop clients and on Android 12 and newer.
Your real pad lights up
Plug a DualSense, DualShock 4, or Switch Pro into Dish and the game drives it: lightbar color, player lights, the mute lamp, and DualSense adaptive triggers. On Windows and Linux that works over Bluetooth too.
Rumble in your hand
When the game shakes, you feel it, on your controller or through the phone itself when you play on the touch screen.
DualSense HD haptics, without the cable
Games like 007 First Light and God of War vibrate a DualSense by playing audio into it, which is why that only works wired on PC. With Satellite on Windows, Dish plays it straight into a DualSense plugged into Dish for Windows or Linux, and turns it into regular rumble for any other pad.
A microphone and a speaker in your controller
Switch the microphone on and party chat on the PC hears you through the pad, the way it would through a DualSense. Whatever the game plays through the pad's speaker comes back to you, on your phone or on a DualSense plugged into Dish for Windows or Linux. Mute means muted: nothing leaves your device.
Battery at a glance
See your controller's battery level and whether it's charging, so a dead pad never surprises you mid-session.
On-screen pads in three styles
No controller handy? Play on the touch screen with an Xbox, PlayStation, or Switch layout that matches the pad your game sees. Slide along a trigger for a partial pull, and the eight-way d-pad won't fight you on diagonals. There's a mouse screen too, for menus and launchers.
Desktop clients for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Got a pad plugged into one computer and want to play on another? Dish for Windows, Dish for macOS, and Dish for Linux send it across the network, with the same pairing and the same feel.
Works with the pads you own
Xbox, DualSense, DualShock 4, Switch Pro, 8BitDo, the Amazon Luna Controller, PDP's wired Switch pads, and the original Steam Controller. Plug in over USB or pair over Bluetooth; Direct mode reads supported pads straight off USB for the full feature set.
Use it as a plain Bluetooth pad too
Dish can also act as a regular Bluetooth gamepad, so you can pair your phone straight to a PC, console, or TV box even when there's no Satellite around.
Works with Sunshine, Apollo, and Wolf directly
Pair Dish with a Moonlight host and it shows up there as a controller, no Satellite needed. Buttons, sticks, motion, touchpad, rumble, lightbar, and battery all make the trip, and Dish puts your controller back on the host after a restart.
A simple dashboard on your PC
Satellite shows a small dashboard with your connected controllers and how things are running, so you can see at a glance that everything's healthy.
Diagnostics that explain themselves
Every Dish client has a Diagnostics screen that shows what reached the pad and why a feature is off. On Windows and Linux it adds an input inspector with stick drift and range tests, and a rumble bench.
Updates itself
Satellite and Dish for Windows update from inside the app: check, download, install. Dish for Linux and the GitHub build of Dish for Android tell you when a new release is out.
Drops into Sunshine / Moonlight
Stream video to your TV with Moonlight and hold your phone as the controller, through Satellite or straight into the Sunshine host. Or skip streaming entirely and use Dish as a wireless gamepad on the same monitor.
Works with nearly every PC game
Your games see a standard Xbox or PlayStation controller, so nearly every game with controller support works with it. Pick Xbox for the widest support, or PlayStation when you want the touchpad, motion, and lightbar.
Couch co-op for up to 16
Connect up to 16 controllers to one PC, each its own player. One person dropping out never drags the others down.
Smooth even on busy Wi-Fi
Your inputs get priority on the network, so they stay snappy even when the Wi-Fi is busy with downloads and streaming in the background.
Six languages, everywhere
Every Dish client and the Satellite dashboard come in English, Spanish, German, French, Brazilian Portuguese, and Bosnian.
No ads, no tracking
No ads, no analytics, no account. Nothing about how or what you play is collected. Besides your controller input, an app sends only a crash report and a check for new releases that carries nothing about you, and both have an off switch. It's open source, so you can verify that yourself.
Ready to feel it?
Free, open source, and ten minutes from download to first frag.