Behavioral, not signature-only.
Catches novel threats by what they do — touching the keychain, hijacking a launch agent, exfiltrating — not just by matching known hashes.
Coming 2027
Mac antivirus, done Mac-style.
Real malware protection that respects the fact your Mac isn't a Windows machine in disguise. Behavioral detection. On-device scanning. Zero phone-home. Notifications you can trust — because they're rare.
Not another Windows AV ported sideways.
Mac threats look different. Mac users expect different. macup Shield is being built to catch the real attackers on macOS (info-stealers, launch-agent persistence, malicious installers) without the false-positive theater of legacy antivirus.
On-device. No phone-home.
Scanning runs locally. Files don't leave your Mac for analysis. Threat intel updates over HTTPS; nothing telemetry-shaped in the other direction.
Quiet by default.
Notifications only when something is actually up. No weekly "you're safe!" theater. No Chromium-is-a-browser false positives.
Fits the macup chassis.
Same menubar agent, same dashboard surface, same recovery model. One account, one install, one way to read what your Mac is doing.
We'll tell you when it ships.
One email at ship. No drip campaign. No ads. Promise.