Vigil – see which apps use your Mac's camera or microphone

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Hi HN,I built Vigil, a small macOS menu bar utility that shows which apps are using your camera or microphone.macOS already shows the green/orange privacy indicator dots, but it doesn't show which application triggered them. If you have multiple apps open (Zoom, browsers, Slack, etc.), it can be difficult to know which one is actually accessing the device.Vigil runs in the menu bar and monitors camera and microphone access in real time. When a device becomes active it attempts to attribute usage to the responsible application and displays the app name and icon.Some technical details:- real-time monitoring with ~2 second polling - multiple detection signals (hardware access via IOKit, CoreMed

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Website: vigil.griffoncrest.com