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macOS has no built-in kiosk mode. Canned Web locks a Mac to one website, fullscreen. Spotlight, Cmd-Tab and screenshots blocked, locked to your domain, exit only with a password. Great for product demos, trade-show booths, signage and exhibits. One-time €49, no MDM.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm David and I run a small design studio. Canned Web came out of a problem I ran into when I built the setup of an exhibit at a museum. Putting a Mac in front of the public and needing it to show exactly one website, nothing else is not that trivial.
macOS has no built-in kiosk mode (no Guided Access like iPad), so your options are usually expensive MDM or fiddly configuration profiles. Total overkill for one screen. So I built the simple version.
Enter a URL, hold ⌘⇧S, and the Mac is sealed fullscreen to that site. Spotlight, Cmd-Tab, Cmd-Q and screenshots are blocked, navigation is locked to your domain, it auto-starts back into the site after a reboot, and the only way out is your exit password.
If you're a founder: it's genuinely great for demos at events; lock your product or demo to a Mac at your booth and hand it to anyone, with no risk of a curious visitor alt-tabbing to your desktop. Also great for reception screens, digital signage, museum/gallery exhibits.
It's a simple one-time purchase, €49 per machine, no subscription, no cloud, nothing phones home. 14-day free trial. Native, notarized Mac app.
But it's not perfect; no app can disable the Mac's physical power/Touch ID button (macOS won't expose it).
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I'd love your honest feedback. what would make this a no-brainer for your setup? Happy to answer anything.
that's a much cleaner answer than I expected honestly - non-admin kiosk account + FileVault means the "vulnerability" is really just standard macOS security doing its job, not something you had to build. good call adding the hardening note, that's the kind of thing an IT person setting this up in a school or museum would want spelled out before they trust it in an unsupervised space
About Canned Web on Product Hunt
“Lock a Mac to one website. Kiosk mode. No MDM”
Canned Web was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 8 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #17 on the daily leaderboard. macOS has no built-in kiosk mode. Canned Web locks a Mac to one website, fullscreen. Spotlight, Cmd-Tab and screenshots blocked, locked to your domain, exit only with a password. Great for product demos, trade-show booths, signage and exhibits. One-time €49, no MDM.
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