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One tap in the notch locks your keyboard and trackpad
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One tap in the notch locks your keyboard and trackpad
201 followers
Kleanly lives in your MacBook's notch. Tap it once and your keyboard and trackpad are locked, so you can wipe everything down while your video keeps playing. Kids can slap the keys during a cartoon and nothing gets typed. Double tap the trackpad when you're done.
This is the 2nd launch from Kleanly. View more
Kleanly
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Kleanly lives in your MacBook's notch. Tap it once and your keyboard and trackpad are locked, so you can wipe everything down while your video keeps playing. Kids can slap the keys during a cartoon and nothing gets typed. Double tap the trackpad when you're done.
New since our first launch: the notch control, in-app updates, moving your license to a new Mac yourself, and a small tab on displays without a notch.
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@haider_nawaz Great, minimal app with only the required feature, also while wiping my screen I usually turn down the brightness to zero, I think you can add one more option that does this in one click. Congrats for the launch!
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@aryan_thakore Thanks Aryan! The dark overlay gets you most of the way there: turn on Clean Screen and the display is covered with a dark layer, and you can choose how dark it goes. Dropping the actual brightness to zero in the same tap is a good idea though, I am adding it to the list.
@haider_nawaz I like how Version 2 focuses on the small details that make cleaning a Mac less annoying.
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@new_user___2622026ae45f6a6f9a320ac Thanks Audrey! That was the whole idea behind version 2. The core has always been the same, lock the keys, so this time the work went into the small stuff: hover the notch, tap, and the screen stays on so whatever you were watching keeps playing while you wipe.
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the kids-slapping-the-keyboard-during-a-cartoon use case sold me more than the cleaning one honestly. what happens if the app crashes or the mac restarts while it's locked, does it come back locked and stuck, or does a reboot always clear it
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@galdayan Thanks Gal! A reboot always clears it. The lock is an event tap that lives inside the Kleanly process and nothing about it is saved to disk, so if the app ever crashes macOS drops the tap on the spot and the keyboard and trackpad come straight back. After a restart Kleanly comes up unlocked. The one exception is opt-in: if you turn on Start Cleaning When Opened in Settings, it starts a session whenever the app launches, and a double tap on the trackpad still ends it.
The notch interaction is actually pretty clever Feels much easier than opening an app just to lock the keyboard.
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@trevor_loy23 Thanks Trevor! That was the whole point of the rework. Opening an app and hunting for a button every time you want to wipe the keys felt like too much friction, so now it is hover, tap, clean.
I can definitely see the toddler use case especially when a cartoon is playing and little hands are everywhere.
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@grace_gui02 Thanks Grace! That is honestly where the idea came from. Lock it before the cartoon starts and the keys can take a beating without a single letter getting typed.
Keeping the screen on while cleaning is a nice detail I’d probably use it mostly for wiping down the keyboard.
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@nathan_holdstein36 Thanks Nathan! Keyboard wiping is the main use for me too. Keeping the screen on means you can also leave a video or a call running while you do it, instead of locking the whole Mac.
The double tap to unlock is a neat touch No need to hunt around for a button after you’re done.
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@sathesharayu12 Thanks Sharayu! I wanted stopping to be as easy as starting, and since the trackpad is right there under your hands, a double tap on it felt like the natural way to say done.
Good call supporting Macs without a notch too The little tab seems like a simple way to keep the same workflow.
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@daniel_carter19 Thanks Daniel! I did not want to leave external displays and older MacBooks out, so on screens without a notch it becomes a small tab at the top. Same hover, same tap.