Veil
Turn your AirPods into privacy shield
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Veil uses AirPods head tracking to blur your Mac when you turn away, trigger apps with head gestures, and animate a notch pet. Download Veil for Mac. Along with it we have a lovely pet that will give you company on your notch, a pet that follows your head.
PH · launched Sep 24, 2026 · 4 upvotes (top 8%) · 0 views
Niche: screen privacy and sharing utilities · 52 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Menu Bar Apps
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More like this: all 52 launches in screen privacy and sharing utilities →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a native macOS menu bar app leveraging Apple's CoreMotion framework to read CMHeadphoneMotionManager data and apply a screen blur or animate a notch overlay.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 402 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #85 of 403 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 299 days after the earliest competitor.
- AirVeil · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Cue · ph · 2026-10-10 · 160 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Veil for Mac · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- HeadOrbit · github · 2026-09-13 · 41 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Hushtop · ph · 2026-10-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- NotchAbove · ph · 2026-10-13 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- ScrollPods for Mac · ph · 2026-10-27 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- LookBack · github · 2026-09-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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