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.
- LookBack · github · 2026-09-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- GazeVeil · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- AirPoise · github · 2026-09-15 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- MoniVol · github · 2026-09-27 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- QuietGlass · ph · 2026-09-22 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- DuoFlip · github · 2026-09-10 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- dsh-bar-macos · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- MacStatusBarAndDock · github · 2026-09-26 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.65
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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