{"appstoreID":6763495406,"title":"Cats Lock","subtitle":"Keyboard lock for cat people","developerName":"Todd Alexander","description":"Lock the keys. Love the cat.\n\nCats Lock is a one-click keyboard lock for Mac, for any time you need the keys to stop for a moment. A cat on the laptop, a toddler reaching for the keyboard, or a screen that needs a wipe-down: hit the lock and carry on, without random typing, deleted documents, or a trip to System Settings.\n\nONE SHORTCUT, ANY APP\nPress ⌘L from anywhere and Cats Lock instantly blocks every key. A customizable lock screen shows what's happening; the same shortcut releases it when you're ready. Prefer a different combo? Record your own in Settings.\n\nSMART DETECT\nTurn on Smart Detect and Cats Lock can lock itself the moment it senses keyboard chaos, so you don't have to reach for the shortcut. It runs entirely on your Mac, and you choose how sensitive it is. It stays off until you turn it on, and asks for Accessibility once when you do.\n\nKEEP YOUR MAC AWAKE FOR LONG JOBS\nGot a long render, export, build, or backup running? Lock the keyboard and turn on Keep Mac Awake so a stray paw, or a sleeping screen, can't interrupt it. Come back hours later to the same locked, wide-awake Mac, everything still running.\n\nSTEALTH LOCK FOR MEETINGS AND MOVIES\nWhen your sidekick is encroaching, flip on Stealth Lock from the menu bar or Settings. Same keyboard blocking, no overlay, no sound. Need to take control during a meeting or screen share? Unlock just the trackpad and keep clicking while the keyboard stays locked.\n\nLOCK THE FUNCTION ROW (OPTIONAL)\nGot a cat that loves the top row? Optionally block the function keys too (F1 through F12), including Mission Control, brightness, volume, and media keys. This feature needs Accessibility permission, so it stays off until you choose to turn it on.\n\nLOCK THE BUILT-IN KEYBOARD\nWorking on an external keyboard? Lock your MacBook's built-in keyboard and let your cat sprawl out on the warm keys while you keep working. It releases the moment you unplug the external keyboard, so you're never stranded. Like the function row, this needs Accessibility permission and stays off until you turn it on.\n\nMAKE THE LOCK SCREEN YOURS\nGive the lock screen your own look: pick a background style, choose an icon or emoji, add a custom message, or set a favorite photo as the backdrop.\n\nPICK YOUR DETERRENT\nChoose from a range of built-in sounds, including a spoken \"Warning, cat on keyboard\" voice, or import your own. Sounds play on each blocked keystroke to alert you when paws are present. Or stay completely silent.\n\nLOCK PROFILES\nSave your go-to lock setups as profiles, each with its own mode, sounds, and lock screen, then start any of them straight from the menu bar.\n\nLIVES IN THE MENU BAR\nCats Lock stays out of your way. Always one click from the menu bar pawprint, with a one-tap widget to lock or unlock without opening the app. Optional Hide from Dock and Launch at Login. Auto-unlocks when your screen goes to sleep so you're never locked out of your own Mac.\n\nSPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE\nFully localized in English, German, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, and Japanese.\n\nPRIVACY-FIRST\nCats Lock runs entirely on your Mac. No accounts, no cloud, no analytics, no data ever leaves your device. The app is fully sandboxed. The core lock needs no special permissions. The optional function-row, built-in keyboard, and Smart Detect features are the only ones that ever ask for Accessibility, and only if you choose to turn them on. When you turn one of those on, Cats Lock uses the permission only to block keys. It never reads what you type, and it never saves or sends anything. Smart Detect works entirely on your Mac and never uses Input Monitoring.\n\nDESIGNED FOR CAT PEOPLE, LOVED BY MANY MORE\nMade by a cat owner who got tired of his cat rewriting documents in real time, then shaped by feedback from parents, keyboard cleaners, and everyone who needs the keys to hold still.\n\nREQUIREMENTS\nmacOS 13.1 (Ventura) or later. 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