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Touchscreen Test

Test a phone, tablet, laptop, or monitor touchscreen online. Draw over the panel to find dead zones, detect ghost touches, and check multi-touch contacts, pressure, and size.

Touch data stays in this browser tab

Touch and drag anywhere here

Each finger draws in its own color. Sweep across the whole surface to find gaps.

Touch summary

Touch or click the pad to begin.

Active points
0
Most at once
0
Device maximum

Reported by the browser

Pointer type

Complete tool guide

Touchscreen Test guide

Use this online touchscreen test to inspect the digitizer across the entire display, reveal repeatable dead areas or ghost touches, and measure how many fingers the browser can track at the same time.

Your input is processed in the current browser tab and is not sent to the application server.

Why use this tool?

  • Turn missing touch events into visible gaps that are easy to reproduce.
  • Track multiple fingers in separate colors and compare active, observed, and reported limits.
  • Check touch, pen, or mouse input locally without installing a diagnostic app.

Common use cases

  • Checking a cracked or repaired phone or tablet screen for dead zones
  • Confirming how many fingers a device tracks at once
  • Testing a touchscreen monitor or a stylus before relying on it

How to use it

  1. 1

    Touch the pad with one finger and drag to draw a line.

  2. 2

    Add more fingers one at a time and watch each get its own color.

  3. 3

    Sweep slowly across the whole surface, especially the edges and corners.

  4. 4

    Look for gaps in your lines — those are areas the panel did not register.

Controls and results explained

Touch drawing pad

Touch and drag anywhere in the large pad. Each pointer draws a separate colored path, and normal page panning is disabled inside the pad so your movement can be recorded accurately.

Contact circles and paths

A circle marks each active contact and its path shows where it moved. A repeatable break across several slow passes suggests the digitizer stopped reporting that area.

Pressure and contact size

When hardware and browser support them, each active contact reports pressure plus width and height. Many capacitive screens provide approximate values, and some devices expose none.

Active points

The number of contacts touching the pad right now. Lift a finger and this falls; unexpected active points may indicate a ghost touch or another object contacting the display.

Most at once

The highest simultaneous contact count observed during this session. Add fingers one at a time and keep them down to discover the practical multi-touch limit.

Device maximum

This is navigator.maxTouchPoints, the capability claimed by the device through the browser. It can differ from Most at once because of hardware, driver, browser, or operating-system limits.

Pointer type

Shows touch, pen, or mouse for the active contact. A stylus may be reported as pen, while some drivers deliberately expose trackpads or pens as mouse input.

Clear drawing

Clear drawing removes all paths and resets the measured session counters, giving you a clean surface for a second pass along the edges, corners, or a suspicious area.

Reading the result

Each contact gets a colored circle showing its position and, where the device reports it, its pressure and contact size. Lines break where the panel stops reporting, which is how a dead zone shows up.

Multi-touch limits

The device reports the maximum number of simultaneous touches it supports. Most phones handle five or ten; some touchscreen monitors handle fewer.

Works with a mouse too

The pad tracks any pointer, so a mouse or stylus also draws. On a device with no touchscreen the reported maximum is zero.

Practical tips for better results

  • Sweep right up to the bezel — edge dead zones are the most common fault after a screen repair.
  • A screen protector that is lifting at a corner often causes a dead zone in exactly that area.
  • Ghost touches appear as circles you did not create; they usually indicate a digitizer or charger fault.

Frequently asked questions

Part of my line is missing. Is the screen broken?

A consistent gap in the same place across several attempts points to a dead zone in the digitizer. Try removing any case or screen protector first, since both can cause the same symptom.

Why does my device track fewer fingers than expected?

Some browsers and some panels cap the number of simultaneous contacts. The reported maximum shown here is what the device tells the browser it supports.

Circles appear when I am not touching anything.

That is a ghost touch. It is most often caused by a faulty charger, a damaged digitizer, or moisture on the screen.

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