12 answers across capture, privacy, and pricing questions.
Your active window — and only while it is on a display you allow — plus meeting audio when a meeting is active or manually started, and local documents in folders you point it at. OCR reads text off each captured frame. Transcription runs over short rolling windows with a small overlap so words are not cut off. You must obtain consent from everyone before you record them — see Recording consent & your legal obligations.
In a local SQLCipher-encrypted SQLite database on your laptop, with full-text search and on-device semantic embeddings for semantic search. No screen images or video files are persisted: only OCR text, audio transcripts, and metadata derived at capture time. Nothing captured is sent to a shared cloud database. The security page has the full control list.
By default, no captured content leaves. What does sit in the cloud: sign-in and billing data, device registration metadata, and aggregate licence-usage counts. No telemetry and no captured content. Manual exports only move data when you explicitly run them. See local vs cloud for the side-by-side.
Yes. Pause from the tray menu, the app, or a keyboard shortcut. Resume when you are ready. You can also exclude specific windows, apps, displays, or categories (HR tools, password managers, private browsing) so they are never captured in the first place. The security page lists the default exclusions.
On Free, 7 days. On Pro, unlimited history. Storage grows roughly 500 MB per month for the database (OCR text, transcriptions, embeddings), bounded by your retention settings. See pricing and system requirements for plan and disk detail.
Yes, within a meeting. On-device speaker labelling runs locally and separates speakers per meeting. You can rename or merge those speakers within the meeting. The only voice embedding Overshow stores is your own, kept on your device, so it can tell your voice apart on calls. Overshow does not store or match other people's voices, does not recognise other people's voices across meetings, and this is not a planned feature. You can filter search results by speaker. You must obtain consent from everyone before you record them — see Recording consent & your legal obligations.
Only if you want meeting audio transcription. Screen recording is always required for capture. Microphone and accessibility permissions are optional. The installation steps walk through each permission prompt. You must obtain consent from everyone before you record them — see Recording consent & your legal obligations.
Plan for about 500 MB per month for the SQLite database, bounded by your retention settings. 20 GB free is a comfortable baseline. Retention is configurable from the settings. See system requirements for more detail.