Steering and pedals by feel
Turn the phone to steer and tilt it for gas or brake. Tune the lock, deadzones, curve and smoothing with a live view of what the game gets.
Free for Windows, Linux and Steam Deck
Your phone is
the racing wheel.
Turn it to steer, tilt it for gas and brake. Your PC sees an Xbox controller, so any racing game that takes one just works.
Get Wheel for PC
Android 13 or newer, on the same network as your PC.
Left stick +0.00
RT 0.00
LT 0.00
125 updates a second · Up to four phones · No account
Motion for everything continuous. Buttons for everything else.
What you get
Every button, marked
Handbrake, boost, paddles (or the volume keys), horn, lights and camera. Each shows the Xbox button it presses, so “press A” is easy to find.
The game's rumble
Kerbs, slides and crashes come through the phone's motor, lifted so the faint ones can still be felt.
Up to four players
Each phone is its own controller, for split screen. Make anyone Player 1 in one tap, and turn any phone off from your PC.
Menus too
A D pad and A, B, X and Y for the game's menus. Swipe the middle of the screen, or just lay the phone flat.
Made for flip phones
Fold it to pause the game. Half fold it into a cockpit, with the dashboard on top and the buttons under your thumbs.
How it works
Two minutes, once.
After that, open Wheel and drive.
- 1
Get Wheel for PC
Run Wheel.exe on Windows, or one line in a terminal on Linux. It waits quietly in the background.
- 2
Scan the code
Point your phone's camera at the code in Wheel's window. The app opens and connects, or is offered if you don't have it yet.
- 3
Hold it like a wheel
Tap the dial in your driving position, then start a race.
Download
Wheel for PC is free.
Pick your system.
You're on your phone. Wheel for PC goes on the computer you play on, so open wheel.ranax.co there.
Download Wheel.exe
It installs itself just for you, offers to set up the controller driver, and waits by the clock. If Windows says it protected your PC, click More info, then Run anyway: Wheel is new, so Windows hasn't seen many people run it yet.
curl -fsSL https://wheel.ranax.co/install.sh | shIt installs just for you, without root, and needs a 64 bit PC with Python 3.9 or newer. If Steam isn't installed, Wheel asks once for your password so games can see its controllers. Rather not pipe to a shell? Get wheel-linux.tar.gz and run sh wheel/install.sh.
curl -fsSL https://wheel.ranax.co/install.sh | shSteam's own settings already let Wheel make controllers, so there's nothing else to set up. Turn on Start Wheel when you log in in its window, and it keeps running in Game Mode too.
Then, on your phone
Wheel for Android needs Android 13 or newer, on the same network as your PC.
Questions
Which games work?
Any PC game with Xbox controller support, on Windows or Linux. It's been tested with Assetto Corsa and slowroads.io, and its buttons start out the way Forza Horizon expects. For Assetto Corsa, set the input to X360.
Does it work on Linux and Steam Deck?
Yes. Games see a standard Xbox 360 controller, so Steam, Proton and native games all take it. Rumble works too.
Does anything go to the internet?
No. The phone talks only to your PC, over your own network. No accounts, no ads, no analytics. See the privacy policy.
Who can join my PC?
Only phones you allow. A new phone waits until you click Allow on the PC, unless it scanned the code on your screen. Every phone your PC knows is listed in Wheel's window, where you can turn it off, forget it or block it.
Which phones work?
Android phones on Android 13 or newer. Any phone with motion sensors steers; one with a gyroscope steers more smoothly. There's no iPhone app yet.
Is it a real wheel?
It's the next best thing you already own. The steering has no force feedback, but the game's rumble comes through, and the phone sends its controls 125 times a second.
How do I remove it?
On Windows, uninstall Wheel from Settings, Apps, like any other app. On Linux, run sh ~/.local/share/wheel/install.sh --uninstall.