Keypause
Turn off your Mac's keyboard while you clean it
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Press one button. Wipe your keyboard. Done. A Mac menu bar app that locks every key while a sleepy keycap waits for sunrise.
PH · launched Nov 8, 2026 · 88 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
Yes A Mac menu bar app that disables the keyboard with a timed overlay is a small Swift/AppKit project. It needs an event tap and Accessibility permission, which are well-documented.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1025 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #14 of 1026 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 350 days after the earliest competitor.
- CleanPause · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- Lockpaw One hotkey to cover your Mac screen without putting it to sleep · hn · 2026-03-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- CleanBar – Menu Bar Manager · ph · 2026-11-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Paws Off · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Extra Cup · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- TocaPad · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- LidAwake · github · 2026-10-03 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Shortcuts in Menu Bar · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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