Ombrelle quietly dims everything except your active window no clutter, no noise, just what matters right now. Switch between Focus, Flow, or Evening. You'll only really feel what it does the day you turn it off.
I know this type of app already exists. I’ve personally used similar focus tools on macOS for a long time, especially HazeOver, and Ombrelle started from a simple idea: what would my own version of this concept look like if I built it with my taste, my workflow, and the details I care about?
So I built Ombrelle: a macOS menu bar app that keeps your active window clear while gently dimming everything else in the background.
My goal wasn’t to reinvent focus. It was to create a calmer, cleaner, more polished experience for people who want their Mac to feel less visually noisy while they work.
I spent a lot of time refining the small details: resource usage, multi-display behavior, app exclusions, presets, performance, and the overall feeling of the app once it’s running. I wanted Ombrelle to feel useful, but also unobtrusive.
For the launch, you can use the code PH30.
I’m excited to hear your feedback and build the roadmap together!
My vision: to create the most polished and unobtrusive focus utility for macOS.
I like the honesty here, very cool. Not every product needs to invent a new category. Sometimes the better idea is taking something useful and making a version that feels more considered. The multi-display behaviour and app exclusions are the details I’d want to test. Focus utilities usually sound simple until they start fighting with presentations, video calls or full-screen apps. Does Ombrelle remember different presets for different setups, such as working on a laptop versus using an external monitor?
respect for naming HazeOver directly instead of pretending this is a new category. genuinely curious what it was about HazeOver day to day that made you want your own version rather than just living with it, was it a specific friction point or more just wanting full control over the details
About Ombrelle on Product Hunt
“Modern window dimming, built for focus for macOS”
Ombrelle launched on Product Hunt on July 23rd, 2026 and earned 73 upvotes and 6 comments, placing #35 on the daily leaderboard. Ombrelle quietly dims everything except your active window no clutter, no noise, just what matters right now. Switch between Focus, Flow, or Evening. You'll only really feel what it does the day you turn it off.
Ombrelle was featured in Mac (103.6k followers), Productivity (656.7k followers), Menu Bar Apps (12.2k followers) and OpenAI Day (8 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 160.2k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Ombrelle?
Ombrelle was hunted by Lionel Guichard. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Lionel Guichard
👋 Hey everyone,
I’m Lionel, the indie maker behind Ombrelle.
I know this type of app already exists. I’ve personally used similar focus tools on macOS for a long time, especially HazeOver, and Ombrelle started from a simple idea: what would my own version of this concept look like if I built it with my taste, my workflow, and the details I care about?
So I built Ombrelle: a macOS menu bar app that keeps your active window clear while gently dimming everything else in the background.
My goal wasn’t to reinvent focus. It was to create a calmer, cleaner, more polished experience for people who want their Mac to feel less visually noisy while they work.
I spent a lot of time refining the small details: resource usage, multi-display behavior, app exclusions, presets, performance, and the overall feeling of the app once it’s running. I wanted Ombrelle to feel useful, but also unobtrusive.
For the launch, you can use the code PH30.
I’m excited to hear your feedback and build the roadmap together!
My vision: to create the most polished and unobtrusive focus utility for macOS.