Guard
Camera monitor that freezes camera-using apps you own with SIGSTOP until you allow or block them, all locally.GetMIT
FaceLock
Checks the owner's face with the Mac camera when protected apps are opened, then locks the screen on a mismatch.
MIT · Free download · Downloads from github.com
- License
- MIT
- Open source
- Source
- GitHub
- MaxSphinx
- Verified
- 2026
About FaceLock
FaceLock compares the camera image with the face you enrolled whenever you switch to a protected app or step away from the Mac. On a mismatch it shows a fullscreen lock, can take a photo of the person and send it to a Telegram chat through your own bot, and keeps an incident gallery and an audit log. Enrolled faces are stored as 128-value embeddings in a local JSON file, and the README says the camera frames are discarded after extraction.
It suits people who want a local, camera-based lock on an Apple silicon Mac that is used in shared or public places.
Requires macOS 14.0 or later on Apple silicon, and camera access. The download is ad-hoc signed and not notarized, so the first launch must be allowed in System Settings. Telegram alerts send photos off the Mac; the README says all other processing runs on the device.
Information
- Source code
- MaxSphinx/FaceLock
- License
- MIT
- Website
- github.com
- Download
- github.com
- Category
- Privacy & security
- Evidence checked
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- github.com/MaxSphinx/FaceLock
- github.com/MaxSphinx/FaceLock/blob/main/LICENSE
- github.com/MaxSphinx/FaceLock/releases/latest
- icon.png: FaceLock Authors. MIT; upstream app icon, trademarks retained.
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