Peeking Pete: Screen Privacy
Detect shoulder surfers live
Only for Mac
$9.99
Mac
Peeking Pete is your on-device privacy guard for Mac. It watches for unwanted eyes on your screen using your Mac's front camera and on-device face detection — and alerts you the instant someone other than you is looking. Your private work stays private. No images, no cloud, no tracking.
Working in a café, on a train, or in an open office? Peeking Pete sits quietly in your menu bar and warns you the moment a shoulder surfer appears.
WHY PEEKING PETE
• Real-time shoulder-surfing alerts — full-screen shield, a notification, or both
• 100% on-device — camera frames and face data never leave your Mac
• Free — no subscriptions, no in-app purchases
THREE DETECTION MODES
• Any extra face — alerts whenever a second face appears (fast, no setup)
• Register my face — enroll once, get alerted only when an unfamiliar face shows up
• First face on launch — trusts the first face it sees, flags anyone else
BUILT FOR REAL WORK
• High Risk mode locks your screen after repeated intrusions
• Snooze when sharing your screen with a colleague (15 min–12 hrs)
• Adjustable sensitivity, detection speed, and alert style
• Lives in your menu bar — always watching, never in the way
NO EXTRA HARDWARE
Uses the webcam already in your Mac. No privacy filters, no screen films, no dongles to buy or swap.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Peeking Pete uses Apple's Vision framework and an on-device neural model. Nothing is recorded, uploaded, or tracked. Ever.
Built for anyone who handles sensitive work in public — journalists, engineers, lawyers, executives, remote workers, and students. Catch shoulder surfers before they catch your screen.
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Face registration, rebuilt
• Registering your face now guides you through all five angles and won't finish until each one is captured, so recognition has a complete reference to work from.
• Faces are aligned before they're compared, a significant accuracy improvement for "Register my face" mode.
• The up and down angles are now reachable on Macs whose camera sits high above the screen, and a hang during registration is fixed.
Fixes
• The camera preview in Settings now works while scanning is paused.
• External webcams and Continuity Camera are detected properly, and the menu bar says so when no camera is found.
• Screen lock no longer fails silently in High Risk mode.
• High Risk mode now forgets a detection streak after three minutes, so unrelated alerts spread across the day no longer add up to a surprise lock.
• In Dock mode, closing the window no longer quits the app.
The developer, Pawel Szydlowski, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Pawel Szydlowski
- Size
- 46.5 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 15.7 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 15.7 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
English and 11 more
- English, Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Pawel Szydlowski

