Pause media or lock your screen when you step away
Ghosted is an “away mode” for your Mac. It uses on-device presence detection to pause media or lock your screen when you leave, then resumes when you return. No cloud, no accounts, no tracking. Just automatic control of your workspace without breaking focus.
Hey everyone
I built Ghosted because I kept running into the same small problem that adds up over time: stepping away from my Mac and having to manually pause everything or lock my screen. It’s simple, but it breaks focus.
Ghosted turns that into an automatic “away mode.” Walk away, it pauses media or locks your screen. Come back, everything resumes.
The key decision was keeping everything on-device. No accounts, no cloud, no tracking. Your Mac handles it locally using the camera, just like any other system feature.
Curious how people handle this today. Do you manually lock/pause, or use something else?
About Ghosted: Smart Presence on Product Hunt
“Pause media or lock your screen when you step away”
Ghosted: Smart Presence launched on Product Hunt on May 1st, 2026 and earned 78 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #8 on the daily leaderboard. Ghosted is an “away mode” for your Mac. It uses on-device presence detection to pause media or lock your screen when you leave, then resumes when you return. No cloud, no accounts, no tracking. Just automatic control of your workspace without breaking focus.
On the analytics side, Ghosted: Smart Presence competes within Productivity, Developer Tools and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Ghosted: Smart Presence performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Ghosted: Smart Presence?
Ghosted: Smart Presence was hunted by Calvin Thurman. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Ghosted: Smart Presence including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Calvin Thurman