CrackMac
Revive your cracked MacBook screen with CrackMac
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CrackMac allows you to continue using your MacBook even with a cracked screen by moving windows and the menu bar to the functional parts of the display while blacking out the damaged areas. It offers a free 30-minute trial to calibrate your settings before purchase. The app ensures that all menu items and windows stay within the working area, making your MacBook usable again without the need for costly repairs. It's compatible with both Apple silicon and Intel Macs running macOS 13 or later.
PH · launched Oct 21, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop and display utilities · 171 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -75% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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More like this: all 171 launches in desktop and display utilities →
Could you build this?
Partial The UI and settings are easy to build, but a real macOS app must keep windows and the menu bar usable on a partially damaged display, which requires low-level window server and accessibility APIs.
What it would actually take: A Swift app would need to use accessibility APIs and possibly private window-server interfaces to reposition windows and menu bar items, plus a transparent overlay that blacks out damaged regions and blocks input there. The hard part is macOS-specific window management that changes between OS versions and needs careful testing on real hardware.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 785 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #533 of 786 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 339 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Islora · ph · 2026-11-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- WindowReturn · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- DisplaySpan · ph · 2026-09-18 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- MacID · ph · 2026-10-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- PushArrange · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Resettle · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- DisplayShift · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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