Launching today
Hide My Screen
A privacy overlay for your Mac that even follows your typing
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A privacy overlay for your Mac that even follows your typing
2 followers
Hide My Screen puts a privacy overlay on your screen, revealing only a small area around your cursor. The Full version uses native macOS accessibility APIs to track your caret as you type, so the keyhole follows you across Chrome, Safari, Notes, VS Code and more.
Hey, I'm the developer behind Hide My Screen.
I built this because too often I've caught people trying to read my screen when I'm working in public. Physical privacy filters exist, but they're rigid and dim your display permanently. They also don't help if someone is directly behind you. I wanted something I could toggle on and off, and that would let me keep working normally while everything around my cursor stays hidden.
The free version on the Mac App Store does the basics: overlay on, keyhole follows your mouse. There's also a premium version there that allows customisation. They work well, but if you're typing, you're constantly nudging the mouse to keep up with where you're actually looking.
The Full version fixes that. It uses macOS accessibility APIs to read your caret position natively, so the keyhole tracks where you're typing without you doing anything. Works across Chrome, Safari, VS Code, Xcode, Brave, Notes, Calendar, and most standard macOS apps.
The trade-off is that native caret tracking requires accessibility permissions and can't run in Apple's sandbox, so the Full version is distributed directly from the website rather than the App Store.
It's $19.99, one-time purchase. No subscription, no account, no telemetry.
Happy to answer any questions about how it works or the technical side of things.