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.
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?
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?
clean execution tbh
curious are people actually sticking with it after install or mostly trying once and dropping?
About Ghosted on Product Hunt
“Pause media or lock your screen when you step away”
Ghosted launched on Product Hunt on May 1st, 2026 and earned 99 upvotes and 12 comments, placing #9 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
Ghosted was featured in Productivity (650.7k followers), Developer Tools (511.7k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 199k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Ghosted?
Ghosted was hunted by Calvin Thurman. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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