LookBack
Look away, screen blurs. A native macOS app powered by AirPods head tracking.
Details
- External ID
- 1373239487
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- LookBack
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.28183448629259544
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 20, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 20, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- airpods head tracking screen blur tool for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The app uses standard Apple CoreMotion APIs to read AirPods head tracking quaternion data and applies an NSVisualEffectView or full-screen overlay blur when orientation exceeds a threshold.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 359 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #304 of 360 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 322 days after the earliest competitor.
- HeadOrbit · github · 2026-09-13 · 41 upvotes · similarity 0.77
- quietglass · github · 2026-09-20 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- AirVeil · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- GazeVeil · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- AirPoise · github · 2026-09-15 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Avert · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- QuietGlass · ph · 2026-09-22 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Veil · ph · 2026-09-24 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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- No other launches for this product.
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