Latch
Free for macOS 26

Lock your Mac apps while you're away.

Latch hides the apps you choose until Touch ID or your Mac password opens them again.

Download for MacHow it works
The Latch menu: Unlock all, and Microsoft Teams marked locked

Open a latched app and it stays covered.

The app hides, every screen blurs, and the Touch ID prompt appears. Cancel, and it stays hidden with Unlock one click away.

Latch's cover screen: Notes is latched. Touch ID or your Mac password opens it.

It locks itself.

When you walk away

Two minutes without a keypress, the screen locking, the lid closing or the Mac sleeping latches every app at once.

Every time it opens

Quit a guarded app and the next launch asks again.

When you come back to it

Switch away for longer than your grace period and it asks on return.

  • Always
  • 1 min
  • 2 min
  • 5 min
  • 15 min
⌃⌥⌘L

All at once

One shortcut, or Lock all in the menu bar. Unlock all takes one Touch ID.

Nobody at your desk can switch it off.

Adding apps and locking are instant. Anything that lowers protection waits for your fingerprint or password.

Turning a guard offSwitching an app off asks for Touch ID first.
Opening SettingsSettings stay latched, and latch again when closed.
Quitting LatchQuitting from the menu bar asks for Touch ID too.
Latch Settings: guarded apps with their options, grace period and idle time choices

Latch never goes online. No account, no analytics, and your fingerprint never leaves macOS. It only remembers which apps you guard.

Latch 1.1.2

1.9 MB, macOS 26 or later, Apple silicon

Download for Mac
  1. Open the DMGDrag Latch into Applications, then open it. A lock appears in your menu bar.
  2. Allow it onceLatch isn't on the App Store yet. If macOS blocks it, open System Settings, then Privacy & Security, and choose Open Anyway.
  3. Pick your appsChoose Add apps in the menu and pick the ones to guard.

Latch guards the minutes you forget to lock up. Your Mac's own lock screen (⌃⌘Q) is still the strongest lock.