Away-cam for Mac
See exactly who used your Mac while you were gone
- Problem
- Leave your Mac unattended and someone may browse it or change settings; if it was unlocked or they know the password, there's no way to check afterward. Existing monitoring tools are heavy and ill-suited for personal or small-team use.
- Solution
- A lightweight menu-bar app that snaps the camera on lock, sleep or manual trigger, uses local face recognition to check whether it's you, and when it isn't, saves the shot and pushes a phone alert. Everything runs on-device, with no raw footage uploaded.
- Users
- Privacy-conscious individuals, developers in open offices, small teams sharing machines
- MVP
- Menu-bar trigger plus lock/manual capture; local face recognition; save locally and push alerts on mismatch; timeline view of captures; one-click wipe and privacy switch
- Revenue
- One-time purchase with optional premium subscription (multi-device sync, encrypted timeline backup)
- Why now
- On-device face recognition and camera access are reliable and cheap, privacy awareness is rising, and small paid Mac apps have shown willingness to pay