CloakPane
A Mac browser that stays out of your screen shares
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CloakPane is a private Mac browser hidden from screenshots, screen recordings and screen sharing. Keep your bank or password manager open on a call; the others see only what's behind the window. Free to use as a browser, Pro from $2.99 a month.
PH · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 60 upvotes (top 3%) · 0 views
Niche: privacy-focused browsers and web tools · 93 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▲ +29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Privacy
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Could you build this?
Partial The core privacy trick, excluding a window from screen capture, is a known macOS API flag that is easy to call. A basic browser shell on WebKit is vibe-codeable, but a full browser with extensions, sync, and security hardening is much harder.
What it would actually take: Build a native Swift/AppKit app wrapping WKWebView (or a Chromium-based engine for full extension support) and set the window's sharing type to none so capture tools see nothing. The hard parts are the browser engine and its security updates, and keeping the capture exclusion working across macOS versions and screen-sharing apps. This needs macOS and browser-engineering expertise, plus ongoing security maintenance.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 291 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #22 of 292 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 309 days after the earliest competitor.
- Cloak Proxy · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Veil for Mac · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- ScreenVeil · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Scrim · ph · 2026-11-08 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- MacModes · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Rein · ph · 2026-10-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Focus Shield · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- QuietGlass · ph · 2026-09-22 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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