one shortcut and your Mac's keyboard and trackpad stop reaching any app, but the screen stays looking exactly how you left it (Slack open, half-typed message and all). your kid can go ham on the keys and none of it lands, they just get calm glowing light to poke at. exit is a deliberate 3-second parent hold. signed and notarized, no account, no cloud.
hey everyone — i've got 2 little ones who are always attacking my computer, and they hate it when i try to navigate away from whatever they're poking at back to my actual work. so i built this thing.
there are a few apps that kind of do this already, but what i like about mine is that the screen mainly just stays looking the way you left it — slack open, mid-message to your boss, all of it — while the kids can just go ham on the keyboard and trackpad and none of it actually lands. one shortcut turns it on, and getting out is a deliberate 3-second hold so they can't stumble out of it.
it's mac only right now — haven't tried windows yet, but if enough people want it i'll probably do it. signed + notarized, 7-day free trial then a one-time license, no account or cloud stuff.
would love feedback, especially from other parents who work on a mac. happy to get into how the input-blocking actually works too.