What is GooglEyes?
GooglEyes is a small macOS utility that lives quietly in your menu bar. It displays two animated googly eyes that track your mouse pointer across the screen and react to simple interactions. It’s designed to add a bit of personality to your Mac without getting in the way of your work.
What’s new in version 1.3
- Clean your Mac mode – temporarily locks keyboard and mouse input so you can safely wipe your keyboard, Touch Bar/Function row, and trackpad without random key presses.
- Eye Roll gesture – hold down a pair of keys (configurable in Settings – defaults to the two ⌘ Command keys) for a couple of seconds to trigger a playful eye roll animation.
- Tweaks and refinements – smoother animations, improved behaviour when hovering over the eyes, and under-the-hood code improvements.
Key features
- Real-time eye tracking – the pupils smoothly follow your cursor as it moves.
- Hover behaviour – when the pointer rests over the eyes, they glance towards each other and move up and down as you move the mouse.
- Click-to-blink – choose whether the left or right eye blinks when you click.
- Eye Roll gesture – assign a key pair (default: both ⌘ Command keys) and hold them to make the eyes roll dramatically.
- Clean your Mac mode – from the menu, activate a special cleaning overlay that temporarily blocks keyboard and mouse actions so you can clean your Mac without accidental input.
- Menu bar native – no Dock icon and no visible window unless you open Settings or About.
- Launch at login – keep GooglEyes running automatically whenever you sign in.
- Adjustable eye size – scale the eyes to suit different displays or menu bar setups.
- Low overhead – written in Swift and designed to use minimal CPU and memory.
How it works
Once installed and started, GooglEyes adds an icon to your macOS menu bar. Clicking the icon opens a small menu with the following options:
- About GooglEyes – view app information and credits.
- Settings… – open the preferences window (eye size, blink settings, eye roll gesture keys, launch at login, etc.).
- Clean your Mac – show a centered cleaning panel and temporarily block keyboard/mouse input so you can safely clean your Mac.
- Quit – exit the application.
The eyes themselves are drawn directly into the menu bar using SwiftUI. Mouse movement and clicks are detected to drive the eye tracking, blink, and eye roll animations. Clean your Mac mode uses a temporary overlay and keyboard handling to prevent accidental input while you clean, and then exits cleanly when you perform the configured key gesture to unlock. All behaviour runs locally on your Mac and does not depend on any external services.
Support & Frequently Asked Questions
- Temporarily block key presses and clicks during Clean your Mac mode.
GooglEyes Privacy Policy
Last updated: 8 December 2025
This privacy policy describes how GooglEyes for macOS handles your data. In short: GooglEyes does not collect, store, or transmit any personal information.
1. Data collection
GooglEyes does not collect any personally identifiable information. The app does not include analytics, tracking frameworks, crash reporting services, advertising SDKs, or any form of remote logging.
2. Local settings
GooglEyes stores a small amount of configuration data locally on your device, such as:
- Whether the app should launch at login
- Your preferred eye size
- Which eye should blink when clicking
- Your chosen key combination for the eye roll gesture
These preferences are stored using the standard macOS UserDefaults system and remain
on your Mac. They are not synchronised to external servers by the app. If you use iCloud device
backups or other system-level backup tools, those backups are managed entirely by Apple or your
backup provider.
3. Network access
GooglEyes does not make outgoing network requests and does not require internet access in order to function. Any network activity you observe while using GooglEyes will be related to normal macOS system services, App Store updates, or other applications.
4. Mouse, keyboard and accessibility access
To animate the eyes in response to your cursor and to support Clean your Mac mode, GooglEyes needs to observe certain mouse and keyboard events. On macOS this requires permission under:
System Settings > Privacy & Security > Accessibility
This access is used solely to:
- Read cursor position so the pupils can follow your mouse.
- Temporarily block key presses and clicks while Clean your Mac mode is active, preventing accidental input.
- Detect the configured key combinations (e.g. both ⌥ Option keys or the eye roll gesture keys) to exit cleaning mode or trigger animations.
GooglEyes does not log keystrokes for later inspection, does not record what you type into other apps, and does not share any of this information outside your device.
5. App Store purchases and receipts
If you download GooglEyes from the Mac App Store, any purchase records or receipts are handled directly by Apple. Moonpunk does not receive any personal billing information. Apple may process data in accordance with its own privacy policy, which you can review on Apple’s website.
6. Third-party services
GooglEyes does not integrate with third-party services, advertising networks, social logins, or analytics tools.
7. Children’s privacy
GooglEyes is a general-purpose utility and does not target children specifically. Because the app does not collect personal data, there is no special handling of children’s information.
8. Changes to this policy
If the behaviour of GooglEyes changes in a future version in a way that affects privacy, this policy will be updated and a new “Last updated” date will be shown above. For significant changes, they will also be noted in the app’s release notes.
9. Contact
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or how GooglEyes works, please contact:
Moonpunk
Email: support@moonpunk.com