Choose an unlock sequence
Use any case-sensitive key sequence with one or more visible characters. It is a convenience, not a password.
Free · Open source · Notarized
Lock the inputs.
Keep the moment.
Temporarily disable every keyboard, mouse, and trackpad on your Mac—without interrupting a video call, movie, song, camera, or microphone.
Requires macOS Sonoma 14 or later · Apple Silicon and Intel
Your call keeps going
Made forVideo calls with toddlersWatching videosKeyboard cleaningCurious petsUninterrupted playback
Looking for Guided Access?
A simple Guided Access alternative for Mac.
Keep a toddler from clicking away from a video, ending a family call, changing the volume, or typing into another app—all while the screen, sound, camera, and microphone keep working.
One job. Done well.
Three steps to accidental-input peace.
No accounts, modes, or complicated setup. You choose the keys that unlock your Mac.
Press Start
A clear five-second countdown gives you time to prepare before all pointer and keyboard input is blocked.
Type to unlock
Enter the exact unlock sequence. Every keyboard, mouse, and trackpad becomes responsive again.
What gets locked
Accidental input stops.
Your Mac does not.
Every keyboard
Built-in and external keyboards become inert.
Mouse & trackpad
Clicks, scrolling, dragging, and gestures are blocked.
Everything keeps playing
Calls, video, music, camera, and microphone continue.
Transparent by design
Your keystrokes never leave your Mac.
Mac Input Lock has no analytics, accounts, network access, background service, advertising, or telemetry. It remembers only enough recent characters to recognize your unlock sequence.
Read the permission explanation →✓
Apple notarizedVerified before every release
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Minimal permissionAccessibility only, to suppress input
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Open sourceEvery line is public under MIT
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Offline foreverNo network connection, ever
Know before you lock
If you can’t unlock.
Test your unlock sequence before handing the Mac to a child. While locked, ordinary Force Quit controls are not practical because local input is intentionally blocked.
If the unlock sequence does not work, hold the physical power or Touch ID button until the Mac turns off, then restart. Unsaved work may be lost. The app will not automatically relock after restart.
Read the complete safety notes →
Keep little hands from ending the call.
Free, open source, and built to do exactly one thing.
Download Mac Input Lockbrew install --cask nickdoesntwantspam/tap/mac-input-lock