Shoo!
Lock any Mac app behind Touch ID — for real
Details
- External ID
- 1250338
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Shoo!
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Security
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
Description
Shoo! locks any Mac app behind Touch ID. Instead of hiding the screen like other lockers, it actually kills the app's process — no flash of content, no bypass by switching desktops. $17.99 one-time, 7-day free trial.
Enrichment
- Theme
- digital minimalism and focus tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- touch id app locker for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Interacting with low-level macOS system APIs to reliably intercept application launches, monitor process lifecycles without race conditions, integrate LocalAuthentication, and prevent bypass requires deep macOS systems engineering.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires a native Swift/Objective-C background daemon running with appropriate entitlements (e.g., Endpoint Security framework or NSWorkspace notification monitoring with aggressive process signal dispatch via kill/SIGSTOP). It needs tight integration with macOS LocalAuthentication framework, a LaunchDaemon for persistence and auto-recovery, and secure IPC to a status bar client. This demands specialized knowledge of macOS internal security models, POSIX process management, and Apple notarization/entitlement quirks.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 238 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #142 of 239 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 253 days after the earliest competitor.
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- PanicLock · hn · 2026-04-17 · 265 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Andas · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Blocker · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Capsomnia · ph · 2026-07-25 · 158 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Vaultis · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Drape · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Lockpaw One hotkey to cover your Mac screen without putting it to sleep · hn · 2026-03-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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