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Look away, screen blurs. A native macOS app powered by AirPods head tracking.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 16, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 74%) · 0 views
Niche: screen privacy and sharing utilities · 52 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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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 : 858 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #725 of 859 (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 0.76
- quietglass · github · 2026-09-20 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- AirVeil · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- GazeVeil · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- AirPoise · github · 2026-09-15 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- airpointer · github · 2026-11-06 · 177 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Avert · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- ntpods · github · 2026-09-30 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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