Press ⌃⌘W and the window in front of you disappears. Hold it and the window comes back. Lock the windows that matter, and they open only with Touch ID or Windows Hello.
Hushwin is a privacy app for Mac and Windows that hides chosen windows with a global keyboard shortcut and locks them behind Touch ID, Windows Hello or a Hushwin password. A short press hides a window; a long press on the same keys reopens it exactly where it was.
It can also hide windows for you — when you plug in a projector, lock your screen, step away from your desk, or open a window whose title contains a word like “salary”. On iPhone and Android, where apps can't hide other apps' windows, Hushwin is a biometric vault for notes, links and files, and on iPhone it can also shield the apps you choose with Screen Time.
Look at a window and press ⌃⌘S (Windows: Ctrl+Win+S). It becomes a hidden window. Press again to undo, or designate a whole app.
Press ⌃⌘E to hide every hidden window at once — even while you're working in another app. Or give each window its own shortcut.
Hold the same keys for about a second. Windows return to the same place on the same monitor. On Mac, if that monitor has been unplugged, they open in the middle of the screen you're on. Locked windows ask for Touch ID or Windows Hello first.
Clear a window away the moment you need to.
Short press hides, long press reopens. Shortcuts are saved by key position, so they work the same in English, Korean, Japanese or any other input language.
Minimize to the Dock, hide instantly with no animation, or lay an opaque cover over the window. On Windows: hide completely, make it transparent, or cover it.
Designate an entire app, and every window it has open or opens later is hidden together.
Drag a rectangle over just one area — a balance, a chat list — and an opaque cover sits there and follows the window as it moves. Save the covers you use often and put them back with a long press.
Opening it again takes your fingerprint.
A locked window opens only after a long press plus Touch ID, Windows Hello or your Hushwin password. On Mac it's kept out of the Dock, and if anything tries to bring it back, Hushwin hides it again and asks for Touch ID.
Failed or cancelled unlocks and attempts to pull a locked window back are logged with the time. Clearing the log needs your fingerprint too.
It hides things before you remember to.
Hide everything when you plug in or unplug an external monitor or projector, when the screen locks or sleeps, or when screen sharing seems to start. On Mac, Hushwin catches ⌃⌘Q and hides everything before the screen locks.
Hide windows after a few idle minutes, re-lock windows you left open, or flick the mouse into a hot corner to hide everything.
Windows whose title contains words you choose — “salary”, “HR”, a client's name — are locked and hidden the moment they open.
The reverse of hiding: keep only the apps you choose and hide every other window, including new ones. Optionally lock them until you turn Focus Mode off.
The keys sit in the same place on Mac and Windows, except Focus Mode, which uses A on Windows (Windows keeps Ctrl+Win+D for a new desktop). In Settings you can switch the modifier keys of all built-in shortcuts at once, or change and clear each shortcut on its own.
| Mac | Windows | Short press | Long press |
|---|---|---|---|
| ⌃⌘W | Ctrl+Win+W | Hide the window you're looking at | Reopen the last hidden window |
| ⌃⌘S | Ctrl+Win+S | Designate the current window as hidden (press again to undo) | — |
| ⌃⌘E | Ctrl+Win+E | Hide all hidden windows | Show all hidden windows |
| ⌃⌘D | Ctrl+Win+A | Turn Focus Mode on or off | — |
| ⌃⌘R | Ctrl+Win+R | Cover an area of the screen | Put saved covers back |
| ⌃⌘X | Ctrl+Win+X | Remove all area covers | — |
| Your choice | Your choice | Hide that one window | Reopen it |
A long press is about one second by default and can be adjusted in Settings. On Mac, ⌃⌘W sits right next to the lock-screen shortcut ⌃⌘Q.
macOS and Windows can hide an app or lock the whole screen. Hushwin fills the gap in between: hide only the windows you choose, and keep working.
| Hide app (⌘H) | Minimize (⌘M) | Lock screen (⌃⌘Q) | Hushwin | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hides only the windows you choose | The whole app | Only the front window | The whole screen | Any windows, from any apps |
| Works while you're in another app | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| You can keep working | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| The same shortcut hides and reopens | No | No | No | Short / long press |
| Needs Touch ID to reopen | No | No | The whole Mac | Per window |
| Someone else can't reopen it from the Dock | No | No | Yes | Locked windows |
| Hides automatically (projector, idle, keywords) | No | No | Idle only | Yes |
Each version does what its platform allows. Mac and Windows hide windows; iPhone and Android protect what's on your phone.
macOS 13 Ventura or later · menu bar app
Windows 10 (version 2004) or later · system tray app
iOS 17 or later
Android 8.0 or later
A privacy app shouldn't ask you to trust a server. Nothing about your windows ever leaves your device. The Mac app goes online only to start the free trial, check your license key and look for updates.
Your windows stay on your device. No account, no analytics, no ads. Settings and the list of hidden windows stay on your computer or phone.
Your fingerprint stays with the system. Touch ID, Face ID and Windows Hello are checked by the operating system; Hushwin only learns whether it succeeded.
Passwords are never stored as text. The optional Hushwin password on Mac and Windows is kept only as a salted PBKDF2 hash.
No screen recording. On Mac, Hushwin works through the Accessibility permission alone and never captures your screen.
Honest limits, so you know what to expect.
With Hushwin, look at the window and press ⌃⌘W — it's minimized at once. Hold the same keys for about a second to bring it back. To hide several windows from different apps at the same time, designate each with ⌃⌘S and press ⌃⌘E. It works like a boss key, but only for the windows you choose.
Yes. In Settings, turn on the lock next to a hidden window. That window then opens only after a long press plus Touch ID or your Mac password. If you create a Hushwin password, only Touch ID or that password works — even someone who knows your Mac login can't open it. Locked windows are kept out of the Dock, and any other attempt to bring one back hides it again and asks for Touch ID.
Hushwin is one. Ctrl+Win+W hides the current window and Ctrl+Win+E hides all your designated windows, removing them from the taskbar and Alt+Tab. A long press brings them back, and locked windows need Windows Hello or your Hushwin password.
Yes. In Auto-hide you can hide all hidden windows when an external monitor or projector is plugged in or unplugged, when the screen locks or sleeps, and when screen sharing seems to start in a video-call app. On Mac, Hushwin takes ⌃⌘Q first, hides the windows, then locks the screen; if you lock another way, they're hidden by the time you unlock at the latest. The monitor and lock triggers are reliable; screen-share detection is a best guess, so press the shortcut yourself before sharing if it matters.
macOS doesn't let one app change the transparency of another app's window — even the private API reports success but leaves the window visible. So Hushwin minimizes the window, moves it off-screen, or covers it instead.
No. Hushwin has no account and no analytics, and nothing about your windows is ever sent. Settings, the list of hidden windows and the attempt log stay on your device. The Mac app goes online only to start the free trial, to register or check your license key (it sends the key, your Mac model and an anonymous code for this Mac) and to look for updates.
Yes. Shortcuts are saved by the physical key position, not by the letter it types, so they work the same whichever input language is active.
On iPhone, yes — per app. Hide Mode uses Apple's Screen Time to put a shield over the apps you choose, and opening one needs Face ID. On Android, no: Hushwin protects its own vault and points you to Private Space or Samsung Secure Folder for hiding apps.
Nothing is lost. On a normal quit Hushwin hands hidden windows back: on Mac they stay minimized in the Dock at their original position, and on Windows they're shown again. Quitting while windows are locked requires Touch ID or Windows Hello. If Hushwin is closed unexpectedly — a crash or a force quit — the next launch takes those windows back still hidden, and locked ones are locked again. On Mac their original spot isn't known then, so they open in the middle of the screen.
The Mac and Windows apps come with a 7-day free trial, then it's a one-time $12.99 purchase — no subscription. On Mac you get a license key by email; on Windows you buy it in the Microsoft Store. When the trial ends, Hushwin stops hiding or locking new windows, but you can still reopen the windows it hid, unlock locked ones, change settings and quit.
English, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, German, French and Hindi — on every platform.
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Windows' shortcuts minimize everything or only the front window. Hushwin is a boss key that hides chosen windows completely and locks them with Windows Hello.
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Choose your platform. No account needed, and it works offline. Mac and Windows: 7-day free trial, then $12.99 — one-time, no subscription.
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