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AirVeil

Blur your Mac screen with AirPods head tracking

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AirVeil gently blurs your whole Mac screen as you turn your head, then clears it when you look back. Set a comfort zone for small movements, pause with a shortcut, and reconnect automatically when your AirPods become available. Runs locally, without a camera. Free, source-available beta for macOS 14+ and compatible AirPods.

PH · launched Sep 20, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views

Niche: screen privacy and sharing utilities · 52 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Privacy
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Yes Apple's CoreMotion framework natively exposes AirPods head tracking via CMHeadphoneMotionManager, and toggling a blurred overlay window in macOS is standard API functionality.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 729 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #635 of 730 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.

  • HeadOrbit · github · 2026-09-13 · 41 upvotes · similarity 0.73
  • LookBack · github · 2026-09-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.69
  • Veil · ph · 2026-09-24 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.69
  • Cue · ph · 2026-10-10 · 160 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • Avert · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • QuietGlass · ph · 2026-09-22 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • BlurShield · ph · 2026-09-16 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • AirCursor · github · 2026-11-04 · 87 upvotes · similarity 0.61

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