Productivity
CoverMyCamera
Last updated 2026-07-13 · benchmark checked 2026-08-09 · unchanged since 2026-08-06 — deterministic & reproducible
One-click software privacy cover for your Mac's built-in camera and microphone.
Is CoverMyCamera production-ready?
Legit.Show scores CoverMyCamera 98 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on CoverMyCamera (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Security; its weakest is Standards. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 98/100
- Accessibility — 96/100
- Security — 100/100
- Privacy — 100/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 92/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 201 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.
Who it's for
Mac users · Privacy-conscious professionals · MacBook owners
Pricing
$12.99 one-time purchase, no subscriptions or recurring fees
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