ironvault
Protect your Mac from Shadow AI apps
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A Touch ID vault for your Mac that keeps AI tools and other apps out of your private files on your mac. Every file in the vault is encrypted on its own. No app can read one, AI assistants included, unless you approve that exact file with Touch ID. Opening one document never opens the rest, the decrypted copy is wiped automatically, and a Dashboard shows every app that asked for or tried to read a vault file. Contribute to human-frequency/ironvault development by creating an account on GitHub.
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PH · launched Oct 18, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Security
- Compliance & governance
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Privacy
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
- Security
Similar launches
See all 151 similar launches →Could you build this?
Partial While wrapping individual file encryption via macOS CryptoKit and LocalAuthentication (Touch ID) is feasible, building a secure sandbox that genuinely intercepts and prevents shadow AI apps from accessing files requires deep macOS kernel or Endpoint Security framework expertise.
What it would actually take: The app requires macOS native development (Swift/Objective-C) utilizing the Apple Endpoint Security API (ESF) or a virtual filesystem (like macFUSE or FileProvider) integrated with the macOS Secure Enclave. The hard part is ensuring robust process isolation and hooking filesystem read events to trigger biometric authentication without kernel deadlocks or permission bypasses. This requires low-level macOS systems security and kernel-extension/system-extension expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 151 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #84 of 152 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 338 days after the earliest competitor.
- SecureKit Private Vault · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Shoo! · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- KeeperPass · ph · 2026-09-23 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Vaultis · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- IceVault — Encrypted Local Database · ph · 2026-09-15 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- VaultDog · ph · 2026-10-02 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Securelytix Data VaultKey · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- SVaultAI · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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More details
- External ID
- 1282567
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- ironvault
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- All tags
- Privacy, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub, Security
- AI summary
- shadow ai detection and protection for mac
- Manually corrected
- No