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For anyone working in shared offices or co-working spaces, it is a cheap, on-device audit trail for a laptop left open, with no account and no subscription.
Someone Was Here sits in the macOS menu bar and takes a photo when the Mac wakes from idle, someone tries the lock screen, or it is unlocked. On-device face recognition keeps it quiet when the face is yours. Photos and face data stay local. The app is free on the Mac App Store; instant alerts to a phone, via a companion iOS app, Pushover, ntfy, Telegram or a webhook, are a one-time $4.99. The camera light always shows.
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