CleanPause
Pause your Mac keyboard and trackpad while you clean
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CleanPause pauses keyboard input and trackpad gestures and darkens your Mac displays while you clean. No countdown: return with a corner hold, by typing done, or with a keyboard shortcut. Free for macOS 13+. Accessibility permission required.
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PH · launched Oct 14, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
Similar launches
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Yes This is a tiny native macOS utility using standard Accessibility APIs (CGEventTap) to intercept and suppress keyboard/mouse input and dim display brightness.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #317 of 585 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 332 days after the earliest competitor.
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More details
- External ID
- 1278969
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- CleanPause
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- All tags
- Mac
- AI summary
- keyboard and trackpad locker for cleaning macs
- Manually corrected
- No