Drape
v0.1 · early
macOS menu bar app
One shortcut, pressed three seconds before you share your screen.
Your password manager, your DMs, the notification that arrives mid-demo. Drape puts a curtain over them, then brings everything back.
macOS 14+ · Universal · MIT · free
Slack is blocked
Drape is hiding it while you present.
What gets shared along with your screen
And you always notice a second after everyone else.
Open behind you, one Cmd-Tab away.
Three protections. Each one independent.
Flip a switch to change what the demo above covers.
Hide sensitive apps
Hidden while you present, brought back afterwards.
Details›
Open one while presenting and its window is covered; launch one that was closed and it does not open at all. Snooze for three minutes if you really need it.
Cover the notification corner
Banners are covered as they appear, on every display.
Details›
macOS never publishes the banner's own frame, so the covered region is a well-placed estimate.
Clear the desktop
Desktop icons disappear for the duration. Off by default.
Details›
Hides desktop icons. Restarts Finder, so windows will flicker.
The whole app
Its settings window, exactly as it looks on your Mac.
Drape
Version 0.1 (1)
One shortcut, pressed three seconds before you share your screen.
The confirmation card and the edge glow are hidden from screen capture. They are for you, not for the room.
What it does not do
A privacy tool that overpromises is worse than no tool at all.
Does it detect that I started sharing? No. You press the shortcut. ›
macOS has no supported API that tells an app a screen capture just began, and the heuristics that approximate it are unreliable enough that shipping them would give you false confidence.
Can it silence notifications? Not yet. No supported API exists. ›
Running a Shortcut is the only sanctioned route. That is written and works, but is not shipped: it is useless until you have built two Shortcuts by hand. It also does not suppress notification sounds.
What if I share a single window? The cover is not captured. ›
The cover is a window of its own, so it is captured only when the whole screen is.
My shortcut does nothing. Another app claimed it first. ›
Two apps can register the same combination and macOS reports no conflict to either, so the only fix is a different one.
macOS refuses to open it the first time. Not notarised. Open Anyway, once. ›
The build is ad-hoc signed but not notarised, so macOS reports, accurately, that it cannot verify who built it. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to Security, press Open Anyway.
Free, MIT, and it stays that way.
If it has saved you from sharing something you would rather not have, you are welcome to say thanks. Reporting a bug or adding an app to the sensitive list is worth just as much.
