QuietGlass
Screen privacy for your Mac, with or without AirPods
Details
- External ID
- 1257675
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- QuietGlass
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 79
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9788325849903784
- Tags
- Open Source, GitHub, Apple
- Fetched at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
QuietGlass is a free, open-source Mac app for screen privacy. Look away with compatible AirPods and your screen blurs. Your camera can spot another face in view and warn you or blur the screen, even while you're still looking. Protect a window or selected area, blur sensitive text, or keep your active window clear with Focus mode. Optional owner recognition checks it's you before clearing camera protection. Native Swift, notch controls, and processing on your Mac. macOS 14+.
Enrichment
- Theme
- screen recording and demo creation tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- mac screen privacy software based on presence detection
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A basic macOS utility can be vibe-coded, but real-time head/gaze tracking with CoreBluetooth/AirPods spatial audio sensor APIs and low-latency computer vision face detection requires specialized native macOS systems programming.
What it would actually take: The app requires native Swift and Objective-C interfacing with macOS Accessibility APIs, CoreGraphics window server hooks for display manipulation, and the Apple Spatial Audio / Motion API for AirPods head orientation. The core technical hurdle is running continuous face-detection models via Apple Silicon Neural Engine (CoreML/Vision) without causing severe battery drain, alongside managing low-level window blurring permissions. It requires an experienced native macOS systems developer.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 441 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #23 of 442 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.
- quietglass · github · 2026-09-20 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- GazeVeil · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- AirVeil · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Avert · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Veil for Mac · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- LookBack · github · 2026-09-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- HeadOrbit · github · 2026-09-13 · 41 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Drape · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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