Look away yaw 52° and it blurs.
Turn your head and every screen blurs within half a second. Look back and it clears.
Gardlok · a privacy shield for your Mac
For your eyes only.
what everyone else sees
Whenever you’re
not looking, or someone else is.
Gardlok blurs your screen the moment you look away, walk off, or someone looks over your shoulder. It watches with your Mac’s camera, your phone or watch, or both.
Try it freeHow it works
Walk off 0 faces and it locks.
Leave your desk and it blurs at once. After a minute (you can choose anything from 15 seconds to 2 minutes) the camera sleeps and the screen locks: your face, Touch ID or your password opens it.
Someone looks 2 faces and it hides.
Someone glances over your shoulder, even just walking past, and your screens blur until they have gone.
Your phone leaves Bluetooth · far and it locks.
Add your phone or watch over Bluetooth by holding it next to your Mac once. When it goes further away than you set, the screen locks, with the camera or without it. Bringing it back doesn’t unlock it: you do.
Don’t take our word for it.
In Terminal, lsof -i -a -c Gardlok | wc -l prints 0: no open connections. codesign -d --entitlements - /Applications/Gardlok.app | grep -c camera prints 1: the camera entitlement.
No open connections, with the camera on. Gardlok never connects on its own: only when you click to activate a licence, refresh a Team subscription or check for updates. Camera images never leave your Mac. Run it yourself.
- In memoryCamera frames last a fraction of a second and are never saved.
- KeychainRecognise Me keeps face prints, numbers not pictures, on this Mac only.
- Signal onlyBluetooth reads signal strength. Nearby devices stay in memory; only the one you add is remembered.
- Light onThe green light is on exactly while the camera watches. With Bluetooth alone it stays off.
Small things, done properly.
Swipe →
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esc
Shows your screen at once. Locked after you were away? Touch ID or your password opens it.
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⌃⌥P
Switches it on and off from any app, or pick a shortcut of your own.
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The notch
Hover for controls. When the screen blurs, it says why. Prefer the menu bar? Use either, or both.
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Recognise Me
Optional: someone in your chair isn’t taken for you, and your face unlocks it when you’re back.
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Phone or watch
Hold it next to your Mac once. Walk off with it and the screen locks, with or without the camera.
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Touch ID
After a minute away the camera sleeps and it locks like a screensaver.
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Every display
All your screens blur at once, and clear together.
Free for 14 days. Then it’s yours.
Personal
€19 oncepay once, keep it
- For you, on up to 3 of your Macs
- Never expires
- Every feature
Team
€60 a year€12 per Mac a year
€110 a year€11 per Mac a year
€250 a year€10 per Mac a year
€450 a year€9 per Mac a year
- One key for the whole team
- Invoices for your company
- Change size any time, prorated, with a new key
Team from €9 per Mac a year, billed yearly. Prices in euros; VAT is worked out at checkout.
Test site: checkout is Polar’s test shop. Pay with card 4242 4242 4242 4242, any future date and any CVC. No real money is charged.
What is an activation?
One Mac. A Personal key is for one person, on up to 3 of their own Macs. A Team key covers as many Macs as your plan has.
Can my company buy Personal keys?
Personal is for one person and their own Macs. For colleagues, Team costs less than a Personal key each in the first year, with one key to manage, company invoices and a size that changes with the team.
What happens after the trial?
For 14 days everything works, with no account or card. After that, a licence key keeps it going.
Can we change team size?
Yes, any time. Switch between Team 5, 10, 25 and 50 and the billing is prorated. The new size comes with a new key: enter it on your Macs before your next renewal date.
What if a Team subscription ends?
On the renewal date, Gardlok asks each Mac to check its licence, and the shared key stops working. Each person then has 14 days to buy a Personal licence, which never expires.
Do I need a camera?
No. Your phone or watch over Bluetooth works on its own, and then the camera stays off. With a camera, the built-in one works best; better support for external cameras is coming.
Why does it ask for Screen Recording?
For the real blur of your own screen. A quarter-size capture stays in memory while the blur shows and is never saved. Without the permission, it covers your screen with frosted glass instead.
Does it connect to the internet?
Only when you click: to activate a key, refresh a Team subscription or check for updates. Never in the background, and camera images never leave your Mac.
Coming next.
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More languages
Gardlok in your own language, not just English.
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Android support
Support for Android phones, via a companion app.
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External cameras
Better support for webcams, such as one on an external display.
Get it.
Download the free trialA test build, not yet notarised by Apple, so macOS refuses the first open. That is expected: