Exclusion categories
Built-in privacy categories that keep whole classes of applications out of capture, including always-on protection for password managers.
Last updated: 2 April 2026
Why categories exist
Per-app exclusions are powerful, but easy to miss if you add a new banking or health app. Exclusion categories apply rules across recognised application types so whole classes of software stay out of the capture index without naming every binary.
You are always in control of what Overshow captures: categories narrow what can be recorded while global pause stops everything.
Password managers. Always active
Password managers are always excluded. You cannot disable this category. Passwords and vault interfaces should never be captured or indexed; treating that as non-negotiable avoids accidental recording when a new password app appears or a window title changes.
Other built-in categories
You can enable or configure additional categories in Settings → Privacy:
- Banking and finance. Reduces capture from financial and banking-class applications.
- Health and medical. Reduces capture from health and medical contexts the classifier recognises.
- Adult content. Reduces capture from applications categorised as adult content.
Exact matching depends on how applications present themselves to the OS; categories are a strong default, not a substitute for pause when you need certainty.
Applying changes
After changing exclusion categories, restart Overshow so capture engines pick up the new rules consistently.
Pair categories with pause
For conversations or screen shares where no recording is appropriate regardless of app type, use pause as well as categories. Categories reduce routine risk; pause removes capture entirely for that period.
Related reading
- Capture controls. pause, resume, and per-app ignores
- Screen capture. how filtering interacts with multi-monitor capture