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quietglass

Open-source native macOS menu bar app that frosts your screen when you look away with AirPods.

Details

External ID
1377747321
Source
GITHUB
Company
—
Product
quietglass
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Sept. 20, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
20
Upvotes percentile
0.6029976940814757
Tags
airpods, appkit, coreml, macos, menu-bar-app, on-device, privacy, screen-blur, swift, swiftui
Fetched at
Sept. 24, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 24, 2026, 5:02 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
macOS and desktop customization tools
Vertical
Security
Function
Workflow automation
Audience
Prosumer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
macos screen frosting app based on airpods head tracking
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Partial While the macOS menu bar UI and screen frosting are straightforward Swift code, accessing real-time head-tracking and motion data directly from AirPods requires private or complex CoreMotion APIs.

What it would actually take: Built with Swift, SwiftUI, and AppKit using macOS desktop APIs to create transparent, blurred overlay windows across screens. The difficult component is streaming CMHeadphoneMotionManager sensor data reliably from AirPods on macOS, filtering noise/drift, and accurately calculating gaze yaw/pitch thresholds relative to the monitor.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 625 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #274 of 626 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.

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