Kleanly
One tap in the notch locks your keyboard and trackpad
Details
- External ID
- 1255125
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Kleanly
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 109
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9875187085738721
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 28, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 28, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Kleanly lives in your MacBook's notch. Tap it once and your keyboard and trackpad are locked, so you can wipe everything down while your video keeps playing. Kids can slap the keys during a cartoon and nothing gets typed. Double tap the trackpad when you're done. New since our first launch: the notch control, in-app updates, moving your license to a new Mac yourself, and a small tab on displays without a notch.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS notch and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- keyboard and trackpad locker for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building this requires native macOS development using IOKit/CGEvent taps to intercept hardware keyboard and trackpad inputs, plus private or low-level Cocoa APIs to handle the camera notch area.
What it would actually take: The app requires native Swift/Objective-C development using macOS Accessibility and CoreGraphics APIs (CGEventTapCreate) to intercept and suppress low-level keyboard and trackpad events without hanging the OS. Additionally, placing UI elements accurately into the MacBook notch requires handling NSScreen auxTopLeftArea/auxTopRightArea and menu bar clipping mechanics, requiring deep native macOS desktop system programming expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 313 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #10 of 314 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 265 days after the earliest competitor.
- island · github · 2026-09-29 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Peninsula - Your macbook notch remade · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Knock · ph · 2026-03-16 · 168 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- NotchHold · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Macinotch · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- NotchOwl · ph · 2026-09-19 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Gojo · ph · 2026-09-10 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Notch Buddy · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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