Launching today

Ghosted: Smart Presence

Launching today

Pause media or lock your screen when you step away

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Pause media or lock your screen when you step away

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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.

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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?

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1d ago

Congrats on the launch! The on-device angle is what gets me, most tools like this quietly phone home and you'd never know. Does Ghosted work reliably in different lighting conditions or does it struggle with low light detection?

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2h ago

I still do it manually most of the time 😅

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10h ago

ProdShort

@othman_katim Same here 😂

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10h ago

clean execution tbh

curious are people actually sticking with it after install
or mostly trying once and dropping?

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10h ago