Zen Mode
a global focus mode for macOS
Details
- External ID
- 48884663
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Zen Mode
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 30
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7837514934289128
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- focus mode for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A macOS focus mode utility can be built by vibe coding a Swift or Swift/AppKit menu bar app that toggles system DND states, hides windows, or blocks notifications using public macOS APIs.
Discussion
12 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: HazeOver, Stage Manager, macOS built-in full-screen mode, Individual app focus modes
Concerns raised: Notifications not silenced when entering Zen Mode, Only works with single window at a time
Feature requests: Multi-app version to focus multiple windows simultaneously, Named window sets with custom shortcuts, Cmd+Tab picker to add apps to focus group
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1330 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #329 of 1331 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 254 days after the earliest competitor.
- Mole · hn · 2025-12-27 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- MacBook-Duo · github · 2026-09-11 · 127 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Jarvey · hn · 2026-03-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Safari MCP · hn · 2026-04-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- emu · github · 2026-09-25 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Vehluna · hn · 2026-01-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Bonsplit · hn · 2026-01-25 · 245 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- WonderBox · github · 2026-09-20 · 181 upvotes · similarity 0.61
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- No other launches for this product.
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