Kleanly - One tap in the notch locks your keyboard and trackpad
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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!
@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.
the toddler use case is honestly pretty practical. I can see this being useful whenever kids are watching something and inevitably start pressing random keys.
@rahul_manjhi1 Thanks Rahul! That is exactly the scenario it was built for. One tap before the show starts and the random key presses go nowhere, while the video keeps playing.
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
@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.
@haider_nawaz good, that's the answer I was hoping for - crash-safe by default instead of fail-locked. the opt-in "start cleaning when opened" is the one setting I'd be nervous about pairing with the kids use case though, since a relaunch after a crash would silently re-lock it on you. might be worth a one-line warning in the settings toggle itself.
Would be nice to have an invisible mode that requires a password typed to unlock but perhaps that's a different app entriely hahaha