MacAway
Locks your Mac when you walk away, no app on your phone
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Details
- External ID
- 1271687
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- MacAway
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.90
- Tags
- Mac, Menu Bar Apps, Security
Description
MacAway sits in your menu bar and does one thing: it locks your Mac when you walk away. Setup takes a minute. Pick the iPhone or Apple Watch you already carry, and you are done. Nothing to install on the phone, no account, nothing to tune. The menu says in plain words whether you are protected, and one switch pauses it when you want to stay put. If it ever locks while you are still there, it tells you why and offers the one fix. 14 days free, then $14 once for all your Macs.
Enrichment
- Niche
- personal productivity and iOS utilities
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- automatic screen lock utility for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a lightweight macOS menu bar app that uses CoreBluetooth or IOBluetooth to monitor the proximity/signal strength (RSSI) of paired devices and calls macOS lock-screen APIs when disconnected or attenuated.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 732 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #119 of 733 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 333 days after the earliest competitor.
- Shoo! · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Near · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Andas · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Blocker · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- LookAway, a Mac break reminder that knows when not to interrupt · hn · 2026-06-24 · 77 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Notchet · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- RemindClock · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Extra Cup · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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