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A macOS menu bar app that keeps your Mac awake by detecting your presence with the FaceTime camera. Local & private — No networking, telemetry, third-party dependencies, or even temp-directory writes; captured frames are processed in memory and discarded immediately. Hardware-accelerated — Uses Vision on Apple Silicon; face detection runs on GPU or Apple Neural Engine, not CPU. Smart presence detection — Skips camera checks when you've used the keyboard or mouse in the last 30 seconds.
“Menu bar app: keeps Mac awake via face detection”
Aware was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 1 upvotes and 0 comments, placing #147 on the daily leaderboard. A macOS menu bar app that keeps your Mac awake by detecting your presence with the FaceTime camera. Local & private — No networking, telemetry, third-party dependencies, or even temp-directory writes; captured frames are processed in memory and discarded immediately. Hardware-accelerated — Uses Vision on Apple Silicon; face detection runs on GPU or Apple Neural Engine, not CPU. Smart presence detection — Skips camera checks when you've used the keyboard or mouse in the last 30 seconds.
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