CryptBrew Lock
A Mac lock screen that photographs wrong-password guesses
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CryptBrew Lock covers your Mac with a lock screen, unlocks with Touch ID or your password, and quietly snaps a photo of anyone who guesses wrong. Try it free for 30 days. Every feature. No subscription. $9.99 once. Try it in your browser: https://www.cryptbrew.com/lock/demo/
PH · launched Nov 13, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Privacy
- Security
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More like this: all 448 launches in macos system utilities →
Could you build this?
Partial The UI and Touch ID/password flow are buildable, but a real lock screen that reliably covers the Mac and captures photos needs deep macOS security and system-level knowledge.
What it would actually take: Build a native Swift/AppKit app with the Local Authentication framework and AVFoundation for the camera capture. The hard parts are a lock screen that cannot be bypassed and reliable intruder capture, which need knowledge of macOS session and login internals, Apple notarization, and privacy and permission handling. Security review by someone experienced with macOS auth is advisable.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 520 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #276 of 521 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 364 days after the earliest competitor.
- MacID · ph · 2026-10-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Shoo! · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Warden · ph · 2026-10-17 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Lockpaw · ph · 2026-10-08 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- MacAway · ph · 2026-10-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- FaceMac · github · 2026-09-17 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- SwiftLocker · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Lockpaw One hotkey to cover your Mac screen without putting it to sleep · hn · 2026-03-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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