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How can I achieve the same functionality on macOS?

Open FahadAliOfficial opened this issue 9 months ago • 2 comments

FahadAliOfficial avatar May 12 '25 15:05 FahadAliOfficial

Hi đź‘‹

I ran into the same problem on macOS and couldn’t find a good alternative, so I built a small open-source app similar to Invisiwind, but for macOS. While macOS technically has an equivalent to SetWindowDisplayAffinity (NSWindow.sharingType = .none), this no longer works with apps that use ScreenCaptureKit. They’ll still capture the window despite protection flags.

So I re-architected the approach using ScreenCaptureKit to insert a proxy layer between the system’s screen capture and the output stream. This lets it dynamically filter out selected apps in real time.

I hope the Invisiwind's author wouldn’t mind me sharing this here. I thought it might be useful for macOS users as well Orogenesis/WindowCloak.

Would love any feedback!

Orogenesis avatar Oct 08 '25 08:10 Orogenesis

Hi @Orogenesis, looks cool, gave the project a star!

I may someday integrate your approach into Invisiwind (giving you credit of course) but that is probably not happening any time soon.

radiantly avatar Oct 08 '25 13:10 radiantly