Skip to content

Empathy vs PointerStick

A side-by-side look at Empathy and PointerStick. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Empathy

Empathy

Social & Communications

Empathy is an open source instant messaging client that supports text, voice and video chat. It uses the Telepathy framework and integrates with the GNOME desktop environment. Empathy supports popular protocols like XMPP, IRC, Facebook Messenger, and more.

chatmessagingvoipxmppirc
PointerStick

PointerStick

System & Hardware

PointerStick is a freeware virtual pointing device software that allows controlling the mouse cursor using a joystick, gamepad or other USB device. It works by translating input device movements into mouse cursor movements on screen.

pointerjoystickmousecursorinput-device