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Detect hidden apps on MacOS

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Mirror detects background macOS apps that deliberately hide from Activity Monitor. It exposes stealth tools like Interview Coder, Cluely, Hiding AI, and similar apps designed to stay invisible giving you full visibility and control over what’s really running on your Mac.
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Abdulbasit Ajaga
Mirror
Maker
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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I’m Abdulbasit, the maker of Mirror. Mirror was built after noticing a growing class of macOS apps that deliberately hide from Activity Monitor — often without users fully realizing what’s running in the background. Some tools are useful, others questionable, but invisibility removes user choice. Mirror gives that choice back. It surfaces hidden background apps, including stealth tools that intentionally avoid detection, so you can clearly see what’s actually running on your Mac. It’s: * 🕵️‍♂️ Focused on transparency, not fear * 🔒 Privacy-respecting and fully local * 🧩 Open source, so you can verify how it works I’d love feedback from builders, security folks, and macOS power users: * What hidden apps surprised you the most? * What detection signals should we add next? Thanks for checking it out — happy to answer any questions!
Shakhawat UIllah Badhon

@emmanuel_ajaga Congratulations on the launch! Mirror looks great. However, does it find malware and bloated pre-installed apps?

Yu Pan

@emmanuel_ajaga If any background activities involving the theft of user privacy are detected, can users be alerted immediately and the suspicious APP be asked to be closed?

Abdulbasit Ajaga
Mirror
Maker
@barian_badhon Currently working on it. It will be launching in the coming weeks.
Abdulbasit Ajaga
Mirror
Maker
@pany_ai Nice feature would be working on this. Mirror doesn't currently support this feature. Thanks for the feedback
Chilarai M
Swytchcode

Great! Why didn't you publish it to the store?

Abdulbasit Ajaga
Mirror
Maker

Hey@chilarai , thanks for the suggestion i am currently working towards it.

Francis Tse
Debby Notes

@chilarai  @emmanuel_ajaga This is a great app. I imagine a lot of people will love to have it. How would we know when you have the app published in the store?

Abdulbasit Ajaga
Mirror
Maker
@francis_tse I would pin it to the comment section
Anish Sharma

I installed an application long time ago, after the successful installation I won't able to see the application anywhere. Is this tool able to find and uninstall such apps?

Abdulbasit Ajaga
Mirror
Maker
@anishsharma if the app is still on your Mac it would find it and give you the option to kill the app
Paul Tseluyko

wow there're hidden apps running on mac? Never saw it. Interesting.

Abdulbasit Ajaga
Mirror
Maker
@pasha_tseluyko There are some software you can download that, despite being closed, remain active in the background. This is how hackers get access to sensitive information.
Xiaoguang Zhao

Great idea. I’m curious about how this is implemented — does it involve inspecting system processes? And what happens after that?

Stella.W

This software is really appealing to me. My computer is company-issued and has some monitoring software installed, so I’m not very comfortable using this product to disable it—but I still want to say, it’s genuinely a great piece of software.

Abdulbasit Ajaga
Mirror
Maker
@stellawwwwwww Thank you very much, if you don’t mind me asking. Why aren't you comfortable using it to disable the software?