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quietglass

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

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GITHUB · launched Sep 20, 2026 · 20 upvotes (top 39%) · 1 view

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

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • airpods
  • appkit
  • coreml
  • macos
  • menu-bar-app
  • on-device
  • +4 more

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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 : 1594 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #669 of 1595 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.

  • GazeVeil · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.70
  • LookBack · github · 2026-09-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.70
  • LidAwake · github · 2026-10-03 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.69
  • AirPoise · github · 2026-09-15 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.69
  • MoniVol · github · 2026-09-27 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • WakeBee · github · 2026-10-13 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • DuoFlip · github · 2026-09-10 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • QuietGlass · ph · 2026-09-22 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.66

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