Capture controls

You decide when recording runs

You are always in control of what Overshow captures. When you pause, the app stops screen capture and audio recording for Overshow’s indexing pipeline. Nothing new enters the local index while paused. there is no background “light” capture mode that contradicts the paused state.

When you resume, capture continues according to your monitor, audio, exclusion, and category settings.

How to pause and resume

You can pause or resume from:

• Keyboard shortcut. Use the shortcut configured in Settings (see Keyboard shortcuts for the current default).
• System tray. Use the menu on the tray icon on Windows or the menu bar extra on macOS.
• Dock. MacOS users can pause or resume from dock controls where provided.

Pick whichever fits the moment: a quick shortcut during a sensitive call, or the tray when you are already working near the menu bar.

Seeing paused state

On macOS, the dock badge reflects whether capture is paused, so you can confirm at a glance before continuing a conversation or sharing a screen.

Excluding applications

Beyond global pause, you can exclude specific applications from capture in Settings so their windows never contribute to the index. That is useful for apps you never want recorded even when capture is otherwise on.

Settings changes and relaunch

Changes to monitors, audio devices, or ignored windows typically require an app relaunch to apply consistently across the capture stack. If something still appears after a change, restart Overshow once before assuming a fault.