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GazeVeil

AirPods-aware screen privacy for macOS

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GITHUB · launched Sep 20, 2026 · 12 upvotes (top 63%) · 1 view

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
  • airpods
  • macos
  • privacy
  • swift

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Could you build this?

Partial Building a macOS menu bar or background app that blurs or locks the screen is straightforward, but tracking AirPods motion/orientation sensors via private or CoreBluetooth/IOBluetooth APIs is tricky and poorly documented.

What it would actually take: A native macOS app written in Swift using Cocoa/AppKit for screen masking overlays. The core challenge involves reading head-tracking or connection data from AirPods (using IOBluetooth, private CoreMotion APIs, or listening to HID events), reverse-engineering headset telemetry, and handling edge cases when AirPods disconnect or switch devices.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 1777 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #1103 of 1778 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 319 days after the earliest competitor.

  • ntpods · github · 2026-09-30 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.74
  • quietglass · github · 2026-09-20 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.70
  • LookBack · github · 2026-09-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • QuietGlass · ph · 2026-09-22 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • Mirra · github · 2026-11-08 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • safarier · github · 2026-10-24 · 194 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • aero-browser · github · 2026-09-14 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • AirCard-Injector · github · 2026-09-21 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.60

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