It sees you.
Your Mac locks, and MacGaze wakes the built-in camera. It finds your face in the frame while the green light is on, as it always is.
Face unlock for macOS
Free for 14 days · no card
Open the lid.
Open the lid.
That's it.
MacGaze recognises you through the built-in camera and signs you in before you've finished sitting down. One icon in the menu bar. Nothing else.
Download it and use everything for two weeks. No card, no account, nothing to cancel. Buy a licence only if you decide to keep it.
Apple silicon · macOS 26 or later · built-in camera
This is the whole interface.
Try it · no download
It opens for you.
It opens for you.
It doesn't for them.
Press either button and watch what the Mac does.
Your face matches the one MacGaze learned during setup, so it types your password and gets out of the way. The camera light is on for about a second, then it's off again.
Shown close up. On a real Mac the notch is much smaller.
How it works · one unlock
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It measures.
Your face becomes a set of numbers, compared against the ones taken during setup. The whole measurement happens on your Mac.
It opens.
It's you. The notch opens to meet you, your password is typed for you, and the camera turns off. About a second, all up.
Keep scrolling. The unlock plays as the page moves.
Setup · about a minute
It learns your face from every angle.
A ring of marks surrounds the camera. You move your head slowly in a circle and each mark lights as it captures that angle. Twice around, and you're done.
Sweep around the ring and it fills the way the real one does, angle by angle. Captured angles stay captured, exactly as they do during setup. Click the face in the middle to clear it and go again.
0 of 12 angles
One unlock, start to finish
Faster than reaching
Faster than reaching
for the keyboard.
Every step, from the lid moving to your desktop appearing. The camera is on for about a second and then it stops.
0.00sYou open the lid
0.05smacOS wakes the display
0.20sThe camera comes on, and its green light with it, always
0.45sYour face is found and measured
0.60sIt's you. The notch opens to meet you
0.75sYour password is typed for you
1.10sCamera off. Back to your desktop
“The camera light comes on every single time. If it's on and you didn't open your lid, something is wrong, and we'd rather you could see that.”
Privacy
Your face never leaves your Mac.
Not "we don't sell it". There is nowhere for it to go. No account, no server, no face analytics. This website uses limited analytics for traffic and checkout measurement, and only ever with your consent.
Your Mac
camera frames
your faceprint
your password
your settings
All of it stays inside this box, encrypted, on your machine. Camera frames are never written to disk at all. They exist in memory for a moment, and then they are gone.
1 request, ever
The only thing that ever leaves: your licence key, checked once when you type it in. Never while unlocking, so a dropped connection can't lock you out.
A faceprint is not a photograph
MacGaze stores a set of measurements, not an image. There is no picture of you to find, and the measurements can't be turned back into one.
One click deletes everything
“Forget my face” removes your faceprints and your saved password immediately. There's nothing to request from us, because we never had it.
Site analytics, clearly stated
The site uses Google Analytics for page views, traffic sources and checkout measurement. It never receives camera frames, faceprints or your macOS password.
Specifications · including the unflattering ones
What it is, and what it isn't.
If any of this rules it out for you, please don't buy it. We'd rather tell you here than have you find out later.
- Not Face ID
- Your Mac's webcam has no infrared depth sensor, so MacGaze cannot measure depth the way an iPhone does. A printed photo won't get in. A good video of you on a phone screen might. Apple's hardware solves this; a webcam can't.
- Convenience, not security
- MacGaze doesn't make your Mac harder to break into. It makes getting into it faster for you. Treat it as a convenience and it will never disappoint you.
- Password storage
- It stores your macOS login password on your Mac, encrypted, in your Keychain, because that is how it types it for you. It never leaves the machine, but it is on the machine, and you should know that before deciding.
- Recognition is statistical
- It may occasionally not recognise you in unusual light. Face recognition also doesn't perform identically for everyone. Lock your Mac and open it a few times during the trial before you rely on it.
- Your password always works
- MacGaze doesn't change how your Mac signs you in. It just types for you. If it fails, or you quit it, you log in exactly as you always did. It cannot lock you out of your own machine.
- Requirements
- An Apple silicon Mac running macOS 26 or later, with a built-in camera. Continuity Camera isn't used, because your iPhone won't be there when you're locked out.
Price
Buy it once.
Try it free for two weeks first. If you keep it, you buy it once. Not a subscription, nothing to cancel.
One Mac
A$14.99once
Two years of updates included. It keeps working afterwards either way.
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Family · three Macs
A$24.99once
One licence across three Macs, for you or your household.
Buy family licenceCheckout isn't switched on yet. The store is still being set up, so nothing can be bought today.
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