Umbra
A privacy screen that watches for your attention
Details
- External ID
- 1259947
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Umbra
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity, Open Source, Privacy, GitHub, Vercel Day
- Fetched at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 10:53 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 10:53 p.m.
Description
Umbra is a free, open-source privacy screen for Windows. It uses your webcam to notice when you look away and instantly covers your screen; look back and it's gone in 0.15 s. On-device face tracking (MediaPipe) reads head direction and eye gaze, and a one-minute calibration fits it to your desk. Cover with a blur, your own image, a GIF/video or a solid colour. Press F8 to toggle, or pause from the tray. Nothing is recorded or uploaded.
Enrichment
- Theme
- screen recording and demo creation tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- attention-aware screen privacy tool for laptop users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The app is an open-source Python script using MediaPipe and OpenCV to calculate head/eye vectors, wrapped in PyQt5 with transparent overlay windows.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 53 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #23 of 54 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 196 days after the earliest competitor.
- ShoulderSurf · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Firasa · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- microsoft-purview-screen-guard · github · 2026-09-19 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Veil for Mac · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Local privacy-first Microsoft Recall alternative with Gemma 4 · hn · 2026-07-04 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- QuietGlass · ph · 2026-09-22 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- USHA · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- real-live · github · 2026-09-12 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.38
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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