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If you hand your laptop to someone for a few minutes, they can open your personal apps. I wanted a way to protect specific applications without constantly locking my entire Mac. I looked around for solutions, but most were outdated, paid, abandoned, or didn't feel native to macOS. So I built FaceGate. FaceGate is a native macOS app that lets you lock individual applications and unlock them using Face Unlock, Touch ID, or a password. Everything runs locally on your Mac. No subscriptions
You can lock your entire Mac, but you can't easily lock individual apps.
If you hand your laptop to someone for a few minutes, they can still open Messages, Photos, Notes, Mail, WhatsApp, browsers, password managers, and other personal apps. I wanted a way to protect specific applications without constantly locking my entire Mac.
I looked around for solutions, but most were outdated, paid, abandoned, or didn't feel native to macOS. And the ones that worked , lacked features that I wanted.
So I built FaceGate. (300+ downloads)
FaceGate is a native macOS app that lets you lock individual applications and unlock them using Face Unlock, Touch ID, or a password.
It is the most capable and feature heavy MacOS app-locker out there.
A few things I focused on from day one:
* Everything runs locally on your Mac
* No cloud processing
* No accounts
* No telemetry
* No subscriptions
* Fully open source
Features:
• Face Unlock powered entirely on-device using Apple's Neural Engine.
• Fast authentication with very low memory and CPU usage
• Liveness detection to prevent photo and video spoofing attacks
• Touch ID and password fallback
• Per-app unlock timers
• Automatic re-lock on sleep, wake, or screen lock
• option to re-lock on app switch as well as keep unlocked indefinitely - completely customizable
• Custom schedules for automatic lock/unlock periods
• Tamper protection that prevents FaceGate from being quit, disabled, or uninstalled without authentication
• Runs quietly from the menu bar with minimal system impact.
• Multi-Monitor protection
The entire project is written in Swift and designed specifically for macOS.
This is still actively being maintained and I'd genuinely love feedback from Mac users.
Some questions:
* Is app-level locking something you've wanted on macOS?
* Which apps would you personally lock?
* What security or privacy features would you like to see added?
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About FaceGate on Product Hunt
“The only MacOS app-locker anyone would ever need. ”
FaceGate was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #149 on the daily leaderboard. If you hand your laptop to someone for a few minutes, they can open your personal apps. I wanted a way to protect specific applications without constantly locking my entire Mac. I looked around for solutions, but most were outdated, paid, abandoned, or didn't feel native to macOS. So I built FaceGate. FaceGate is a native macOS app that lets you lock individual applications and unlock them using Face Unlock, Touch ID, or a password. Everything runs locally on your Mac. No subscriptions
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A few months ago I realized something strange:
You can lock your entire Mac, but you can't easily lock individual apps.
If you hand your laptop to someone for a few minutes, they can still open Messages, Photos, Notes, Mail, WhatsApp, browsers, password managers, and other personal apps. I wanted a way to protect specific applications without constantly locking my entire Mac.
I looked around for solutions, but most were outdated, paid, abandoned, or didn't feel native to macOS. And the ones that worked , lacked features that I wanted.
So I built FaceGate. (300+ downloads)
FaceGate is a native macOS app that lets you lock individual applications and unlock them using Face Unlock, Touch ID, or a password.
It is the most capable and feature heavy MacOS app-locker out there.
A few things I focused on from day one:
* Everything runs locally on your Mac
* No cloud processing
* No accounts
* No telemetry
* No subscriptions
* Fully open source
Features:
• Face Unlock powered entirely on-device using Apple's Neural Engine.
• Fast authentication with very low memory and CPU usage
• Liveness detection to prevent photo and video spoofing attacks
• Touch ID and password fallback
• Per-app unlock timers
• Automatic re-lock on sleep, wake, or screen lock
• option to re-lock on app switch as well as keep unlocked indefinitely - completely customizable
• Custom schedules for automatic lock/unlock periods
• Tamper protection that prevents FaceGate from being quit, disabled, or uninstalled without authentication
• Runs quietly from the menu bar with minimal system impact.
• Multi-Monitor protection
The entire project is written in Swift and designed specifically for macOS.
This is still actively being maintained and I'd genuinely love feedback from Mac users.
Some questions:
* Is app-level locking something you've wanted on macOS?
* Which apps would you personally lock?
* What security or privacy features would you like to see added?
Website: https://facegate-applocker.vercel.app/
GitHub: https://github.com/dweep-desai/FaceGate-Mac
If you think I did a good job, please feel free to leave a star on my github repo - means a lot to me.
Feedback, feature requests, bug reports, and contributions are all welcome. I'd love to hear what you think.