Your webcam watches your back. The instant someone walks up behind you, every tab blurs and mutes. 100% on-device and private.
Users
10
+8 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#206K
#173K among extensions
Version
1.0.0
updated 18 Sep 2026
Users
monthly, 1 months
Latest, 21 Oct 2026:10 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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About GlanceGuard — Shoulder-Surf Shield
🛡️ WHAT GLANCEGUARD DOES
Working in an open office, café, train or plane? GlanceGuard turns your laptop camera into a shoulder-surfing shield. The moment someone walks up behind you or leans over your shoulder, every Chrome tab frosts over and mutes — before they can read a word. Click anywhere (or press Esc) and you're instantly back.
👀 SMART DETECTION, NO FALSE ALARMS
• The camera watches only the peripheral zones of the frame (left, right, top) — where an approaching person appears. You, seated in the center, never trigger it.
• A slow-adapting background baseline means lighting changes never cause a false alarm.
• Where Chrome's built-in face detection is available, two faces in frame raise the shield instantly — even if the intruder stands perfectly still.
🧊 INSTANT, DISCREET SHIELD
• Every tab is covered by a heavy frosted blur in ~100 ms.
• Tabs are muted and playing media is paused (both optional).
• The tab title flips to a neutral "New Tab" — no alarming red banners. The person behind you sees a boring screen, not a caught-you warning.
⌨️ ALWAYS-AVAILABLE PANIC BUTTON
• ⌥⇧Space blurs / unblurs everything manually — works even with the guard off or no camera at all.
• ⌥⇧G arms / disarms the guard.
🎚️ THREE SENSITIVITY LEVELS
Chill, Balanced, or Paranoid — Paranoid fires on ~0.4 s of peripheral motion.
🔒 PROVABLY PRIVATE
A camera extension only deserves your trust if privacy is verifiable:
• 100% on-device — zero networking code (no fetch, XHR or WebSocket anywhere).
• Frames are downscaled to a tiny 96×72 grayscale buffer and discarded immediately after comparison. No frame is ever stored, uploaded, or shown to anyone.
• No account, no analytics, no ads, no external libraries.
• The only stored data is your four settings.
🌍 17 LANGUAGES
English, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish and Swedish — with right-to-left support for Arabic.
Arm it once in the morning. Forget it exists. Your screen is nobody's business.