mactap
Knock your MacBook to run shortcuts
Details
- External ID
- 1246140
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- mactap
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8905013897797733
- Tags
- Mac, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps, Apple
- Fetched at
- Sept. 12, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 12, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
MacTap is a free, open-source macOS menu bar app that turns knocks on your MacBook chassis into shortcuts. One, two, or three knocks copy, paste, accept an AI suggestion, take a screenshot, control media, or anything you map. It reads the accelerometer inside the unibody (the same sensor that detects if your laptop is falling) and classifies knocks on-device. Nothing gets uploaded, no account, no network calls. Just a small native Swift app sitting in your menu bar.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS notch and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- knock gesture controls for macbook
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a lightweight macOS menu bar app written in Swift that reads motion data from internal sensor APIs and applies simple threshold detection to invoke system shortcuts.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #88 of 415 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 316 days after the earliest competitor.
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- ShakeNotes for Mac · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Mac Kit · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Hypertask · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- MacMonitor · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Tack+ · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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