Real-time monitoring of your camera, microphone, location, and network. Instant Telegram alerts. Remote control from anywhere. No VPN. No SSH. Free forever.
Watch real demos. No mockups. No renders. This is the actual app.
Right now, apps on your Mac may be accessing your camera, microphone, or location — and you'd never know.
Free plan monitors and alerts. Pro plan adds full remote control via Telegram.
Know instantly when any app activates your camera or microphone. Get alerts with the app name, timestamp, and duration.
See which apps access your location in the background. Stop silent GPS tracking before it becomes a privacy breach.
Monitor outbound connections and flag anomalies. Know when an app reaches out unexpectedly — before it becomes a problem.
Send commands to your Mac from Telegram. Lock screen, check disk usage, kill processes — from any device, anywhere.
Full alert history, system health metrics, and security reports. Track trends over time from a clean web interface.
Auto-lock on suspicious camera access, run a script on unknown network connection. Build automated responses to security events.
No account. No configuration wizard. No cloud dependency.
One click. Drag to Applications. Maclaw appears in your menu bar. That's it.
Create a bot via @BotFather, paste the token. 2 minutes. Alerts start flowing.
Maclaw runs silently in the background. Camera accessed? You'll know in seconds — from anywhere.
We checked. Nothing else does what Maclaw does.
| Feature | Little Snitch | OverSight | SSH / VPN | Maclaw Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camera & mic alerts | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Remote alerts (Telegram) | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Remote control | ✕ | ✕ | ~ | ✓ |
| No VPN / No open ports | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Network monitoring | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Privacy-first (local data) | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✕ | ✓ | ~ | ✓ |
| Price | $59 | Free | Complex | Free / $49/yr |
Real users who decided their Mac's privacy was worth protecting.
"I got an alert at 2am — Chrome had accessed my mic while I was asleep. Turned out it was a tab I'd forgotten to close. Maclaw caught it instantly. I've been using it for months now."
"Setup took 3 minutes. Now I get Telegram messages whenever anything touches my camera. The remote lock feature saved me once when I left my MacBook in a café — locked it from my phone."
"I set it up on my parents' Mac. They're in their 70s — they don't know what a firewall is. But I get the alerts on my phone and I can check what's happening remotely. Peace of mind for the whole family."
Start free. Upgrade when you need remote control.
One click. Runs instantly in your menu bar. macOS 13+.
Or clone from GitHub for manual installation
Free forever for monitoring. Upgrade to Pro when you need remote control from anywhere.