FaceMac
Open-source face unlock for macOS — look at your Mac and it types your saved password at the lock screen. On-device SFace, Face ID style notch animation. Free, private, GPL-3.0.
Details
- External ID
- 1374954651
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- FaceMac
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.28183448629259544
- Tags
- coreml, face-recognition, faceid, lock-screen, macos, notch, on-device, privacy, sface, swift
- Fetched at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS notch and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source face unlock for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While running SFace facial recognition via an open-source library is feasible, securely hooking into the macOS lock screen session, handling privileged keychain access, and simulating trusted input requires complex low-level macOS system APIs and security entitlements.
What it would actually take: The project likely uses Swift or Objective-C interfacing with AVFoundation for camera capture, CoreML or OpenCV running an on-device SFace model, and low-level macOS accessibility or CoreGraphics event taps (CGEventCreateKeyboardEvent) to type credentials. The hardest part is operating reliably across macOS lock states and screen savers while dealing with strict macOS SIP, TCC permissions, and secure input modes designed explicitly to prevent synthetic keyboard events. Implementing this requires specialized macOS systems engineering and authorization framework knowledge.
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Launched 292 days after the earliest competitor.
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