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ShadeType
One tap and nobody beside you can read your screen
ShadeType drops a translucent veil over your Android screen while you type, so the person next to you sees nothing - while your own words stay faintly readable. Works with any keyboard and reads nothing you type. Free, with a one-time Pro unlock.
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Hi Product Hunt 👋 I built ShadeType after replying to a message on a packed train and realising the guy next to me had been reading it for a while. Every "solution" I found was a custom keyboard, which meant handing my typing over to an app I didn't trust. So ShadeType isn't a keyboard. It keeps yours. It watches for one thing only - whether a keyboard is on screen - and when one opens, a small control lands on it. Tap it and a veil drops over everything above the keyboard. The part I'm most pleased with: the veil isn't opaque. At the default opacity your own text stays faintly readable from straight on, while it's unreadable from the side. If you need to check something underneath, hold anywhere on the veil to peek and it closes again when you let go. What it does not do: it never reads what you type. The accessibility service reports keyboard visibility and nothing else - no keystrokes, no text, no clipboard. Nothing you type leaves your phone, there are no ads, and there's no subscription. Free forever: the veil itself, the veil colours, where the control starts, and a keyboard offset slider (Gboard's toolbar sits inside the keyboard window, so this lets you carve out that row). One-time Pro unlock: veil opacity, your own photo as the veil, covering the whole screen with no keyboard open (for banking apps), per-app auto veil, Quick Settings tiles, and arming again after a restart. There's a 10-minute try button so you can feel all of it before deciding. Two things in this build came from users who wrote to me this week: the whole-screen veil and that keyboard offset slider. So if it doesn't fit how you use your phone, tell me here - that's genuinely how it gets better. I have a handful of Pro codes. Comment about how you'd use it and I'll send you one.
About ShadeType on Product Hunt
“One tap and nobody beside you can read your screen”
ShadeType was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #153 on the daily leaderboard. ShadeType drops a translucent veil over your Android screen while you type, so the person next to you sees nothing - while your own words stay faintly readable. Works with any keyboard and reads nothing you type. Free, with a one-time Pro unlock.
On the analytics side, ShadeType competes within Android, Privacy and Security — topics that collectively have 71.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how ShadeType performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted ShadeType?
ShadeType was hunted by Ince Czechner. 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.
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