Questions & Direct Answers Everything You Need To Know

Any screen that connects to your Windows computer works immediately. You can use:

• Budget 30 to 45 dollar seven-inch HDMI touchscreen panels from Amazon or AliExpress
• USB-C portable touch monitors (13 inch, 15 inch, or larger)
• iPads or Android tablets connected as a secondary Windows display
• Touchscreen laptops or Surface Pro devices
• Any standard non-touch monitor or television

You never need to buy expensive branded plastic hardware boxes.

You do not need a touchscreen. SurfaceDeck fully supports:

• Multi-touch finger gestures (1 to 10 points of contact simultaneously)
• Digital styluses and pen inputs
• Standard mouse clicks (left click triggers, right click edits)

Many creators position SurfaceDeck on an ordinary secondary desktop monitor and click hotkeys with their mouse while editing video in Premiere or DaVinci Resolve.

You can turn any modern iPad or Android tablet into a secondary screen in three simple steps:

1. Install Spacedesk (free for Windows and tablets) or Duet Display
2. Connect your tablet to your PC using your local Wi-Fi network or a USB cable
3. Drag the SurfaceDeck window onto your tablet screen and tap fullscreen

Touch input passes straight through to Windows with instantaneous response. Setup takes under three minutes.

SurfaceDeck uses a fully vector and responsive grid engine. It automatically scales to:

• 800 by 480 or 1024 by 600 ultra-budget mini screens
• 1920 by 1080 full HD screens and 1440p displays
• Ultra-wide displays and 4K monitors

You can choose grid layouts from 4 oversized buttons up to 64 micro keys per page to fit your exact display size.

SurfaceDeck integrates with OBS Studio using native WebSocket 5.0 protocols. Features include:

• 1-click auto discovery of your OBS WebSocket port and authentication password
• Bi-directional tally light dots that glow red when streaming or recording
• Live microphone mute indicators that reflect your true input state
• Scene switching, Studio Mode toggling, Virtual Camera triggers, and Replay Buffer saves

The software communicates locally over internal machine loopback with zero internet overhead.

You do not need to open OBS manually first. SurfaceDeck features an automated action queue:

When you press a stream or record button while OBS is closed, SurfaceDeck launches OBS in the background, waits for the socket to wake up, and automatically executes your action the instant OBS is ready.

Discord mute and deafen shortcuts communicate through direct Discord internal IPC pipes. Unlike other apps that choke on rapid tapping, SurfaceDeck uses a dedicated asynchronous FIFO action worker. Every tap is queued and dispatched cleanly with zero lag and zero dropped commands.

Yes. You can configure any button to:

• Launch any executable program, game, or script (.exe, .bat, .ps1, .py)
• Open URLs in your default web browser
• Fire keyboard combos with modifier keys (Ctrl, Shift, Alt, Windows key)
• Chain sequential multi-key macros with millisecond delay precision

Yes. SurfaceDeck includes full volume and telemetry actions:

• Volume buttons with dynamic horizontal true-peak dB meter bars and percentage readouts
• Volume adjustments (+5%, -5%, +10%, mute toggle, direct presets)
• Real-time telemetry presets displaying CPU load percentage, RAM usage, GPU temperature, and drive storage space

No. Most modern software tools are wrapped inside Chromium or Electron frameworks that burn 500MB of RAM and 3% to 5% CPU clock cycles just idling.

SurfaceDeck was written in high-performance native code. It idles at less than 0.1% CPU utilization and uses under 45 megabytes of RAM. Your game frame rates and live stream encodings run at maximum speed without interference.

Touch input latency is measured under 5 milliseconds. The software binds directly to native Windows touch messages (WM_TOUCH and WM_POINTER). You experience immediate physical key depression, active underglow feedback, and instant command firing the millisecond your finger taps the screen.

We operate on a strict Zero Telemetry policy. We believe your computer is your personal workstation:

• Zero background telemetry pings or diagnostic reporting daemons
• Zero keystroke recording or application logging
• 100 percent local file storage (all layouts are saved as JSON files on your own drive)
• We do not operate any telemetry ingestion servers

Yes. SurfaceDeck is 100 percent offline air gap capable. You can completely disconnect your Ethernet cable or turn off your Wi-Fi card. Every button, macro, profile, and local integration will continue working forever without needing to phone home.

Zero subscriptions. None whatsoever. While competitor apps charge recurring monthly fees just to use your own tablet as a stream deck, SurfaceDeck is sold strictly as a single one-time payment. Once you purchase your license, you own it for life with all future version updates included.

Page 1 is completely free forever. You can configure up to 15 buttons, test OBS Studio triggers, try Discord mute shortcuts, and verify the sub-5ms touch response on your physical screen before spending a single penny. No credit card is required to download.

We remove 100 percent of the risk from your shoulders. Try SurfaceDeck for 60 full calendar days. If for any reason it does not fit your streaming workflow or deliver ten times the value of its price, simply email [email protected]. We will immediately issue a courteous 100 percent refund with zero questions asked.

• Core Touch License ($19): 1 dedicated touchscreen display or tablet, unlocks Page 2 and infinite pages
• Studio Pro Suite ($39): Up to 3 touchscreen monitors simultaneously, plus all 4 official plugins included
• Ultimate Broadcaster ($59): Unlimited touchscreen displays across your whole studio rig, plus 10,700+ OLED vector icon vault

Yes. SurfaceDeck features a complete visual design engine:

• 5 Interactive Hover Dynamic FX (Glitch Shimmer, Ion Energy Shield, Gold Leaf, Synthwave Horizon, Circuit Surge)
• 10 Animated Button modes (CRT Phosphor Scanlines, Breathing Glow, Cyber Pulse, Rainbow Wave, Plasma Ripple)
• Live MP4 Video Backgrounds for dynamic cockpit themes
• Button Layer Designer to position multiple image layers, shapes, text lines, and decals

The Ultimate Broadcaster tier includes over 10,700 vector OLED and broadcaster icons organized into instant search categories. You can also import any PNG, JPG, ICO, or SVG file directly from your computer or drag and drop images straight into the button editor.

To give you the physical satisfaction of real mechanical hardware on glass, SurfaceDeck includes 55+ procedural mechanical switch audio profiles. When you tap a key, it plays realistic switch clicks (Topre thock, Kailh click, Boba U4T, Buckling Spring) through your speakers or headphones. You can also assign custom .wav or .mp3 sound effects to any individual button.

The SurfaceDeck Community Marketplace is 100 percent free. We decided against a paid marketplace or selling themes to keep the entire platform completely open, simple, and free of paywalls. Instead, it is a 100 percent free community marketplace where you can explore and download lots of user created themes, custom button profiles, and visual presets with zero paywalls. You can also use Theme Studio to export and share your own original setups freely with fellow creators.