Mac ID 2.5 — Face Unlock & Facial Recognition Software for Mac

Mac ID is facial recognition software for Mac: it unlocks your Mac with your face. When the lock screen appears, a small panel opens under the notch, Mac ID recognises you with the built-in camera, and types your password for you.

New in 2.5

• Updated Terms of Use. Mac ID asks you to read and accept the new version once. You can review them any time at macid.net/terms.html or in Settings → About.
• Licence keys always activate. If the activation server can't be reached, a genuine key now works straight away and is confirmed automatically the next time your Mac is online.

New in 2.4

• Automatic retries: if a scan fails, Mac ID tries again on its own up to 3 times before asking you to hover over the notch. It's on by default; turn it off in Settings → General → Auto retry after failure.

New in 2.3

• Require eye contact (optional, in Settings → Recognition → Attention): Mac ID only unlocks while your eyes are open and you're looking at your Mac. It won't unlock if your eyes are closed or you're looking away.
• Multiple Mac accounts: each account can run its own Mac ID with its own faces and password. The copy in an account that isn't on screen now stays completely idle, so it never uses the camera while someone else is on the Mac.

New in 2.2

• Fixes a crash right after agreeing to the Terms of Use, starting the free trial, or activating a licence key. Mac ID closed itself at that moment; it now carries straight on.

New in 2.1

• Liveness protection is now one simple slider: Minimal, Medium or Max. It replaces the separate liveness switch, mode and printed-photo settings. Your current choice carries over.
• Works at any distance: the detection distance setting is gone. Mac ID now recognises you from close up or further away.

Download: Mac-ID.dmg · macid.net · macOS 15 Sequoia or later

Face unlock

• Recognises you on the lock screen and unlocks the Mac. Typical recognition takes under a second.
• Choose what starts a scan: On wake, On lock, and/or On space (press the space bar on the lock screen).
• Retry on notch hover: move the pointer to the notch to scan again.
• Auto retry after failure: tries again on its own up to 3 times, then waits for a hover on the notch.
• Adjustable match confidence and face detection duration.
• Works at any distance, from close up to arm's length, with nothing to tune.
• If it doesn't recognise you, nothing happens. The lock screen waits and you type your password as usual.
• Works on the built-in display or an external display, with optional haptic feedback.

Your face

• Guided enrolment in the notch; recapture or start over any time from Settings → Your Face.
• Enrol more than one person: everyone who shares the Mac's login can unlock it with their own face. You can also enrol yourself again with glasses or in different lighting to improve recognition.
• Recognition runs entirely on the Mac, using an on-device face model on the Apple Neural Engine. Your face never leaves your Mac.

Liveness protection

• One slider with three levels:
  • Minimal (fastest): checks only that it's your face.
  • Medium (the default): also rejects a printed photo or a photo on a phone screen.
  • Max (slowest): also waits for a sign of a real face, like a blink or a slight head turn.
• No level reliably rejects a video of you, and a camera can't match Face ID or Touch ID. Mac ID is a convenience, not a security upgrade.

Your password

• Stored AES-256-encrypted on your Mac. The key that decrypts it is released only by Touch ID or your Mac password, and it is never sent anywhere.
• The session locks every time Mac ID launches. You unlock it once with Touch ID, and can set it to lock itself again automatically (Auto lock session).
• Change or remove the stored password from Settings → Password.

Attention

• Require eye contact: only unlocks while your eyes are open and you're looking at the Mac, meaning the camera or the screen. It adds no noticeable time.

Animation and preview

• Unlock animation: Original, Minimal, or none at all (turn off Show animation and it just unlocks).
• Optional camera preview while scanning.

Permissions

• Mac ID checks Camera and Accessibility on its own. If Accessibility gets switched off (for example after an update), the menu bar and Settings say so and one click takes you to the right switch.
• Launch at login.
• Works with more than one Mac account: set up Mac ID in each account, and each copy only unlocks its own account's lock screen.

Licence and trial

• 1-day free trial with every feature, no payment details and no account. One trial per Mac.
• When the trial ends, Mac ID stops unlocking your Mac until you add a licence key. It will not keep working unlicensed.
• $4.99 once, for one Mac. The licence never expires and has no subscription. It activates once, then works offline.
• Buy from the licence screen or at macid.net. Your key appears on the page as soon as you've paid.
• Lost your key? Use Lost your key? on the licence screen or at macid.net.

Terms of Use

• Before first use, you read and agree to the Terms of Use. If the terms change, you're asked again.
• Review them any time in Settings → About.

Updates and support

• Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens without any security warnings.
• Checks for updates every day and installs them in the app. You can also use Check for Updates in Settings → About.
• Support: support@macid.net, or the Email button in Settings → About, which includes your version details.

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Already using a version from before 1.9? Download this one from macid.net once and drag it into Applications. Your licence and settings come across automatically. macOS asks you to set up your face and password, and approve Camera and Accessibility, one more time.

Mac ID 2.4 — Face Unlock & Facial Recognition Software for Mac

Mac ID is facial recognition software for Mac: it unlocks your Mac with your face. When the lock screen appears, a small panel opens under the notch, Mac ID recognises you with the built-in camera, and types your password for you.

New in 2.4

• Automatic retries: if a scan fails, Mac ID tries again on its own up to 3 times before asking you to hover over the notch. It's on by default; turn it off in Settings → General → Auto retry after failure.

New in 2.3

• Require eye contact (optional, in Settings → Recognition → Attention): Mac ID only unlocks while your eyes are open and you're looking at your Mac. It won't unlock if your eyes are closed or you're looking away.
• Multiple Mac accounts: each account can run its own Mac ID with its own faces and password. The copy in an account that isn't on screen now stays completely idle, so it never uses the camera while someone else is on the Mac.

New in 2.2

• Fixes a crash right after agreeing to the Terms of Use, starting the free trial, or activating a licence key. Mac ID closed itself at that moment; it now carries straight on.

New in 2.1

• Liveness protection is now one simple slider: Minimal, Medium or Max. It replaces the separate liveness switch, mode and printed-photo settings. Your current choice carries over.
• Works at any distance: the detection distance setting is gone. Mac ID now recognises you from close up or further away.

Download: Mac-ID.dmg · macid.net · macOS 15 Sequoia or later

Face unlock

• Recognises you on the lock screen and unlocks the Mac. Typical recognition takes under a second.
• Choose what starts a scan: On wake, On lock, and/or On space (press the space bar on the lock screen).
• Retry on notch hover: move the pointer to the notch to scan again.
• Auto retry after failure: tries again on its own up to 3 times, then waits for a hover on the notch.
• Adjustable match confidence and face detection duration.
• Works at any distance, from close up to arm's length, with nothing to tune.
• If it doesn't recognise you, nothing happens. The lock screen waits and you type your password as usual.
• Works on the built-in display or an external display, with optional haptic feedback.

Your face

• Guided enrolment in the notch; recapture or start over any time from Settings → Your Face.
• Enrol more than one person: everyone who shares the Mac's login can unlock it with their own face. You can also enrol yourself again with glasses or in different lighting to improve recognition.
• Recognition runs entirely on the Mac, using an on-device face model on the Apple Neural Engine. Your face never leaves your Mac.

Liveness protection

• One slider with three levels:
  • Minimal (fastest): checks only that it's your face.
  • Medium (the default): also rejects a printed photo or a photo on a phone screen.
  • Max (slowest): also waits for a sign of a real face, like a blink or a slight head turn.
• No level reliably rejects a video of you, and a camera can't match Face ID or Touch ID. Mac ID is a convenience, not a security upgrade.

Your password

• Stored AES-256-encrypted on your Mac. The key that decrypts it is released only by Touch ID or your Mac password, and it is never sent anywhere.
• The session locks every time Mac ID launches. You unlock it once with Touch ID, and can set it to lock itself again automatically (Auto lock session).
• Change or remove the stored password from Settings → Password.

Attention

• Require eye contact: only unlocks while your eyes are open and you're looking at the Mac, meaning the camera or the screen. It adds no noticeable time.

Animation and preview

• Unlock animation: Original, Minimal, or none at all (turn off Show animation and it just unlocks).
• Optional camera preview while scanning.

Permissions

• Mac ID checks Camera and Accessibility on its own. If Accessibility gets switched off (for example after an update), the menu bar and Settings say so and one click takes you to the right switch.
• Launch at login.
• Works with more than one Mac account: set up Mac ID in each account, and each copy only unlocks its own account's lock screen.

Licence and trial

• 1-day free trial with every feature, no payment details and no account. One trial per Mac.
• When the trial ends, Mac ID stops unlocking your Mac until you add a licence key. It will not keep working unlicensed.
• $4.99 once, for one Mac. The licence never expires and has no subscription. It activates once, then works offline.
• Buy from the licence screen or at macid.net. Your key appears on the page as soon as you've paid.
• Lost your key? Use Lost your key? on the licence screen or at macid.net.

Terms of Use

• Before first use, you read and agree to the Terms of Use. If the terms change, you're asked again.
• Review them any time in Settings → About.

Updates and support

• Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens without any security warnings.
• Checks for updates every day and installs them in the app. You can also use Check for Updates in Settings → About.
• Support: support@macid.net, or the Email button in Settings → About, which includes your version details.

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Already using a version from before 1.9? Download this one from macid.net once and drag it into Applications. Your licence and settings come across automatically. macOS asks you to set up your face and password, and approve Camera and Accessibility, one more time.

Mac ID 2.3 — Face Unlock & Facial Recognition Software for Mac

Mac ID is facial recognition software for Mac: it unlocks your Mac with your face. When the lock screen appears, a small panel opens under the notch, Mac ID recognises you with the built-in camera, and types your password for you.

New in 2.3

• Require eye contact (optional, in Settings → Recognition → Attention): Mac ID only unlocks while your eyes are open and you're looking at your Mac. It won't unlock if your eyes are closed or you're looking away.
• Multiple Mac accounts: each account can run its own Mac ID with its own faces and password. The copy in an account that isn't on screen now stays completely idle, so it never uses the camera while someone else is on the Mac.

New in 2.2

• Fixes a crash right after agreeing to the Terms of Use, starting the free trial, or activating a licence key. Mac ID closed itself at that moment; it now carries straight on.

New in 2.1

• Liveness protection is now one simple slider: Minimal, Medium or Max. It replaces the separate liveness switch, mode and printed-photo settings. Your current choice carries over.
• Works at any distance: the detection distance setting is gone. Mac ID now recognises you from close up or further away.

Download: Mac-ID.dmg · macid.net · macOS 15 Sequoia or later

Face unlock

• Recognises you on the lock screen and unlocks the Mac. Typical recognition takes under a second.
• Choose what starts a scan: On wake, On lock, and/or On space (press the space bar on the lock screen).
• Retry on notch hover: move the pointer to the notch to scan again.
• Auto retry once after failure, plus adjustable match confidence and face detection duration.
• Works at any distance, from close up to arm's length, with nothing to tune.
• If it doesn't recognise you, nothing happens. The lock screen waits and you type your password as usual.
• Works on the built-in display or an external display, with optional haptic feedback.

Your face

• Guided enrolment in the notch; recapture or start over any time from Settings → Your Face.
• Enrol more than one person: everyone who shares the Mac's login can unlock it with their own face. You can also enrol yourself again with glasses or in different lighting to improve recognition.
• Recognition runs entirely on the Mac, using an on-device face model on the Apple Neural Engine. Your face never leaves your Mac.

Liveness protection

• One slider with three levels:
  • Minimal (fastest): checks only that it's your face.
  • Medium (the default): also rejects a printed photo or a photo on a phone screen.
  • Max (slowest): also waits for a sign of a real face, like a blink or a slight head turn.
• No level reliably rejects a video of you, and a camera can't match Face ID or Touch ID. Mac ID is a convenience, not a security upgrade.

Your password

• Stored AES-256-encrypted on your Mac. The key that decrypts it is released only by Touch ID or your Mac password, and it is never sent anywhere.
• The session locks every time Mac ID launches. You unlock it once with Touch ID, and can set it to lock itself again automatically (Auto lock session).
• Change or remove the stored password from Settings → Password.

Attention

• Require eye contact: only unlocks while your eyes are open and you're looking at the Mac, meaning the camera or the screen. It adds no noticeable time.

Animation and preview

• Unlock animation: Original, Minimal, or none at all (turn off Show animation and it just unlocks).
• Optional camera preview while scanning.

Permissions

• Mac ID checks Camera and Accessibility on its own. If Accessibility gets switched off (for example after an update), the menu bar and Settings say so and one click takes you to the right switch.
• Launch at login.
• Works with more than one Mac account: set up Mac ID in each account, and each copy only unlocks its own account's lock screen.

Licence and trial

• 1-day free trial with every feature, no payment details and no account. One trial per Mac.
• When the trial ends, Mac ID stops unlocking your Mac until you add a licence key. It will not keep working unlicensed.
• $4.99 once, for one Mac. The licence never expires and has no subscription. It activates once, then works offline.
• Buy from the licence screen or at macid.net. Your key appears on the page as soon as you've paid.
• Lost your key? Use Lost your key? on the licence screen or at macid.net.

Terms of Use

• Before first use, you read and agree to the Terms of Use. If the terms change, you're asked again.
• Review them any time in Settings → About.

Updates and support

• Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens without any security warnings.
• Checks for updates every day and installs them in the app. You can also use Check for Updates in Settings → About.
• Support: support@macid.net, or the Email button in Settings → About, which includes your version details.

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Already using a version from before 1.9? Download this one from macid.net once and drag it into Applications. Your licence and settings come across automatically. macOS asks you to set up your face and password, and approve Camera and Accessibility, one more time.

Mac ID 2.2 — Face Unlock & Facial Recognition Software for Mac

Mac ID is facial recognition software for Mac: it unlocks your Mac with your face. When the lock screen appears, a small panel opens under the notch, Mac ID recognises you with the built-in camera, and types your password for you.

New in 2.2

• Fixes a crash right after agreeing to the Terms of Use, starting the free trial, or activating a licence key. Mac ID closed itself at that moment; it now carries straight on.

New in 2.1

• Liveness protection is now one simple slider: Minimal, Medium or Max. It replaces the separate liveness switch, mode and printed-photo settings. Your current choice carries over.
• Works at any distance: the detection distance setting is gone. Mac ID now recognises you from close up or further away.

Download: Mac-ID.dmg · macid.net · macOS 15 Sequoia or later

Face unlock

• Recognises you on the lock screen and unlocks the Mac. Typical recognition takes under a second.
• Choose what starts a scan: On wake, On lock, and/or On space (press the space bar on the lock screen).
• Retry on notch hover: move the pointer to the notch to scan again.
• Auto retry once after failure, plus adjustable match confidence and face detection duration.
• Works at any distance, from close up to arm's length, with nothing to tune.
• If it doesn't recognise you, nothing happens. The lock screen waits and you type your password as usual.
• Works on the built-in display or an external display, with optional haptic feedback.

Your face

• Guided enrolment in the notch; recapture or start over any time from Settings → Your Face.
• Enrol more than one person: everyone who shares the Mac's login can unlock it with their own face. You can also enrol yourself again with glasses or in different lighting to improve recognition.
• Recognition runs entirely on the Mac, using an on-device face model on the Apple Neural Engine. Your face never leaves your Mac.

Liveness protection

• One slider with three levels:
  • Minimal (fastest): checks only that it's your face.
  • Medium (the default): also rejects a printed photo or a photo on a phone screen.
  • Max (slowest): also waits for a sign of a real face, like a blink or a slight head turn.
• No level reliably rejects a video of you, and a camera can't match Face ID or Touch ID. Mac ID is a convenience, not a security upgrade.

Your password

• Stored AES-256-encrypted on your Mac. The key that decrypts it is released only by Touch ID or your Mac password, and it is never sent anywhere.
• The session locks every time Mac ID launches. You unlock it once with Touch ID, and can set it to lock itself again automatically (Auto lock session).
• Change or remove the stored password from Settings → Password.

Animation and preview

• Unlock animation: Original, Minimal, or none at all (turn off Show animation and it just unlocks).
• Optional camera preview while scanning.

Permissions

• Mac ID checks Camera and Accessibility on its own. If Accessibility gets switched off (for example after an update), the menu bar and Settings say so and one click takes you to the right switch.
• Launch at login.

Licence and trial

• 1-day free trial with every feature, no payment details and no account. One trial per Mac.
• When the trial ends, Mac ID stops unlocking your Mac until you add a licence key. It will not keep working unlicensed.
• $4.99 once, for one Mac. The licence never expires and has no subscription. It activates once, then works offline.
• Buy from the licence screen or at macid.net. Your key appears on the page as soon as you've paid.
• Lost your key? Use Lost your key? on the licence screen or at macid.net.

Terms of Use

• Before first use, you read and agree to the Terms of Use. If the terms change, you're asked again.
• Review them any time in Settings → About.

Updates and support

• Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens without any security warnings.
• Checks for updates every day and installs them in the app. You can also use Check for Updates in Settings → About.
• Support: support@macid.net, or the Email button in Settings → About, which includes your version details.

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Already using a version from before 1.9? Download this one from macid.net once and drag it into Applications. Your licence and settings come across automatically. macOS asks you to set up your face and password, and approve Camera and Accessibility, one more time.

Mac ID 2.1 — Face Unlock & Facial Recognition Software for Mac

Mac ID is facial recognition software for Mac: it unlocks your Mac with your face. When the lock screen appears, a small panel opens under the notch, Mac ID recognises you with the built-in camera, and types your password for you.

New in 2.1

• Liveness protection is now one simple slider: Minimal, Medium or Max. It replaces the separate liveness switch, mode and printed-photo settings. Your current choice carries over.
• Works at any distance: the detection distance setting is gone. Mac ID now recognises you from close up or further away.

Download: Mac-ID.dmg · macid.net · macOS 15 Sequoia or later

Face unlock

• Recognises you on the lock screen and unlocks the Mac. Typical recognition takes under a second.
• Choose what starts a scan: On wake, On lock, and/or On space (press the space bar on the lock screen).
• Retry on notch hover: move the pointer to the notch to scan again.
• Auto retry once after failure, plus adjustable match confidence and face detection duration.
• Works at any distance, from close up to arm's length, with nothing to tune.
• If it doesn't recognise you, nothing happens. The lock screen waits and you type your password as usual.
• Works on the built-in display or an external display, with optional haptic feedback.

Your face

• Guided enrolment in the notch; recapture or start over any time from Settings → Your Face.
• Enrol more than one person: everyone who shares the Mac's login can unlock it with their own face. You can also enrol yourself again with glasses or in different lighting to improve recognition.
• Recognition runs entirely on the Mac, using an on-device face model on the Apple Neural Engine. Your face never leaves your Mac.

Liveness protection

• One slider with three levels:
  • Minimal (fastest): checks only that it's your face.
  • Medium (the default): also rejects a printed photo or a photo on a phone screen.
  • Max (slowest): also waits for a sign of a real face, like a blink or a slight head turn.
• No level reliably rejects a video of you, and a camera can't match Face ID or Touch ID. Mac ID is a convenience, not a security upgrade.

Your password

• Stored AES-256-encrypted on your Mac. The key that decrypts it is released only by Touch ID or your Mac password, and it is never sent anywhere.
• The session locks every time Mac ID launches. You unlock it once with Touch ID, and can set it to lock itself again automatically (Auto lock session).
• Change or remove the stored password from Settings → Password.

Animation and preview

• Unlock animation: Original, Minimal, or none at all (turn off Show animation and it just unlocks).
• Optional camera preview while scanning.

Permissions

• Mac ID checks Camera and Accessibility on its own. If Accessibility gets switched off (for example after an update), the menu bar and Settings say so and one click takes you to the right switch.
• Launch at login.

Licence and trial

• 1-day free trial with every feature, no payment details and no account. One trial per Mac.
• When the trial ends, Mac ID stops unlocking your Mac until you add a licence key. It will not keep working unlicensed.
• $4.99 once, for one Mac. The licence never expires and has no subscription. It activates once, then works offline.
• Buy from the licence screen or at macid.net. Your key appears on the page as soon as you've paid.
• Lost your key? Use Lost your key? on the licence screen or at macid.net.

Terms of Use

• Before first use, you read and agree to the Terms of Use. If the terms change, you're asked again.
• Review them any time in Settings → About.

Updates and support

• Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens without any security warnings.
• Checks for updates every day and installs them in the app. You can also use Check for Updates in Settings → About.
• Support: support@macid.net, or the Email button in Settings → About, which includes your version details.

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Already using a version from before 1.9? Download this one from macid.net once and drag it into Applications. Your licence and settings come across automatically. macOS asks you to set up your face and password, and approve Camera and Accessibility, one more time.

Mac ID 2.0 — Face Unlock & Facial Recognition Software for Mac

Mac ID is facial recognition software for Mac: it unlocks your Mac with your face. When the lock screen appears, a small panel opens under the notch, Mac ID recognises you with the built-in camera, and types your password for you.

Download: Mac-ID.dmg · macid.net · macOS 15 Sequoia or later

Face unlock

• Recognises you on the lock screen and unlocks the Mac. Typical recognition takes under a second.
• Choose what starts a scan: On wake, On lock, and/or On space (press the space bar on the lock screen).
• Retry on notch hover: move the pointer to the notch to scan again.
• Auto retry once after failure, plus adjustable match confidence, detection distance and face detection duration.
• If it doesn't recognise you, nothing happens. The lock screen waits and you type your password as usual.
• Works on the built-in display or an external display, with optional haptic feedback.

Your face

• Guided enrolment in the notch; recapture or start over any time from Settings → Your Face.
• More than one identity can be enrolled.
• Recognition runs entirely on the Mac, using an on-device face model on the Apple Neural Engine. Your face never leaves your Mac.

Liveness

• Optional liveness detection rejects a printed photo and a photo shown on a phone screen.
• It does not reliably reject a video of you, and a camera can't match Face ID or Touch ID. Mac ID is a convenience, not a security upgrade.

Your password

• Stored AES-256-encrypted on your Mac. The key that decrypts it is released only by Touch ID or your Mac password, and it is never sent anywhere.
• The session locks every time Mac ID launches. You unlock it once with Touch ID, and can set it to lock itself again automatically (Auto lock session).
• Change or remove the stored password from Settings → Password.

Animation and preview

• Unlock animation: Original, Minimal, or none at all (turn off Show animation and it just unlocks).
• Optional camera preview while scanning.

Permissions

• Mac ID checks Camera and Accessibility on its own. If Accessibility gets switched off (for example after an update), the menu bar and Settings say so and one click takes you to the right switch.
• Launch at login.

Licence and trial

• 1-day free trial with every feature, no payment details and no account. One trial per Mac.
• When the trial ends, Mac ID stops unlocking your Mac until you add a licence key. It will not keep working unlicensed.
• $4.99 once, for one Mac. The licence never expires and has no subscription. It activates once, then works offline.
• Buy from the licence screen or at macid.net. Your key appears on the page as soon as you've paid.
• Lost your key? Use Lost your key? on the licence screen or at macid.net.

Terms of Use

• Before first use, you read and agree to the Terms of Use. If the terms change, you're asked again.
• Review them any time in Settings → About.

Updates and support

• Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens without any security warnings.
• Checks for updates every day and installs them in the app. You can also use Check for Updates in Settings → About.
• Support: support@macid.net, or the Email button in Settings → About, which includes your version details.

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Already using a version from before 1.9? Download this one from macid.net once and drag it into Applications. Your licence and settings come across automatically. macOS asks you to set up your face and password, and approve Camera and Accessibility, one more time.