Sfumo
Blur everything on your Mac except the window you're using
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Details
- External ID
- 1278472
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Sfumo
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Mac, GitHub
Description
Sfumo is a tiny menu bar app for macOS that softly blurs and dims every window except the one in focus. Adjust the blur, tint and grain, toggle it with a shortcut or a shake of the cursor, and choose apps to ignore. $5 once, no account, works offline.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macos menu bar utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- macos background blurring utility for focus
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While small in scope, building a macOS menu bar app that hooks into window management and manipulates visual window layers requires specialized macOS native APIs (Accessibility, CoreGraphics, ScreenCaptureKit).
What it would actually take: The app requires native Swift/Objective-C development using macOS Accessibility APIs (`AXUIElement`) and `CoreGraphics` or transparent overlay windows positioned below active application windows. The hard part is handling macOS sandbox restrictions, permission grants, multi-monitor setups, and smooth real-time window tracking without memory leaks or battery drain. It demands expertise in low-level macOS system programming.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 279 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #77 of 280 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 331 days after the earliest competitor.
- Vidrado · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- BendMac · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- BlurShield · ph · 2026-09-16 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Mino · ph · 2026-09-25 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- QuietGlass · ph · 2026-09-22 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Capso · ph · 2026-04-11 · 268 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Fuwa · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- mactooloud · ph · 2026-09-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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