Veil covers your Mac when someone else appears
or you look away. A little privacy, wherever you work.
An interactive illustration, not a live camera. Detection varies with lighting, camera view, and your settings.
The café. The shared desk. The seat next to yours.
A little personal space goes a long way.
A quick chat. A coffee refill. A moment to think. Set Veil to cover your screen when you turn your head or step away.
Want your music to take a break, too? Turn on optional media pause.
Your timing. Your selected displays.Require Touch ID or your Mac password every time you dismiss the cover through Veil.
Make dismissing the cover a little more personal. Require Touch ID or your Mac password every time, or only after no one is detected.
You choose the rule. Veil remembers it when someone returns.
Get to know the details Veil’s cover complements macOS Lock Screen.Switch between Home, Public, and Presentation. Choose the displays and apps that need more privacy.
Copy text with on-device OCR. Optionally translate, summarize, or explain text you choose to send to AI.
Try optional face recognition with a profile saved on your Mac. Experimental, and entirely up to you.
Veil processes camera frames on your Mac.
No camera uploads. No recordings saved.
Just a little more privacy in your day.
Optional AI is your call: only text you review and submit goes to Anthropic, using your own API key. Your Veil account and license are managed on Conyro’s server.
A focused Mac app, with a price to match.
One payment. No automatic renewals.
Already have a beta license?
Your existing access stays yours.
A little personal space, wherever you work.
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Personal accounts for your teammates. Or one account for your company’s Macs. Buy together, manage every seat in one place.
Choose your team licenses ↗One Mac per seat · Reassign seats anytime · Beta and 1.x updates
Minimum 5 seats · $35 total
10 seats $70 · 20 seats $140
Taxes calculated at checkout. No automatic renewal. Future major upgrades may be paid.
Here’s what to know
before you make yourself at home.
Yes. When you enable protection, Veil uses your Mac’s camera to detect faces and approximate head direction. The camera indicator stays on. Frames are processed locally and aren’t recorded or uploaded. Detection is limited to what the camera can see.
No. Veil’s cover is an app overlay, and Touch ID protects dismissal through Veil. It is not a macOS security boundary; quitting or terminating the process can remove the cover. Use macOS Lock Screen for system security. Veil also has an optional setting to request locking your Mac when you’re away.
Standard protection detects presence. Optional Face Recognition can remember a face you explicitly enroll, using a profile stored only in this Mac’s Keychain. Webcam recognition is experimental and can be fooled by a photo or video; it is not Apple Face ID. You can always choose Touch ID or your Mac password instead.
Immediate mode covers on the first qualifying additional face. With the default five camera samples per second, samples are about 200 ms apart, followed by processing. Real response depends on your camera, lighting, and settings. It cannot prevent every glance, and people outside the camera’s view may not be detected.
Enable look-away cover to cover your selected screens when you turn your head for the configured delay. This uses approximate head direction, not precise eye tracking. Optional, experimental media pause supports Music and Spotify; YouTube in Safari requires additional setup.
Entirely. Screen text recognition and copying run locally. Translate, Summarize, and Explain send only the text you review and explicitly choose to send to Anthropic. These features require your own Anthropic API key and may incur charges through that account. Camera images are never sent.
No. Veil Personal is $19 USD once for one active Mac. Veil Teams is $7 USD per seat once, with a five-seat minimum and one Mac per seat. Beta and Veil 1.x updates are included; future major upgrades may be paid. Existing beta licenses remain valid. Optional AI requires your own API key and has separate provider charges. See the purchase details for current availability.
When the Mac download is available in your account, open the DMG and drag Veil into Applications. Launch it from Applications, then look for the Veil shield in your menu bar. Sign in and activate your license, then allow camera access when you enable protection. Veil requires macOS 14 or later; the same download runs on Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
The next public Mac release is being prepared. Screen text capture needs Screen Recording permission; optional media controls may request Automation permission.
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