11 answers across capture, privacy, and pricing questions.
In a local SQLCipher-encrypted SQLite database on your laptop, with FTS5 for full-text search and EmbeddingGemma 300M vectors 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: account and billing data, and device registration metadata. That is it. Optional MCP integrations and manual exports only move data when you explicitly enable 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, monitors, 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.
There is a built-in MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that exposes a small approved tool surface to AI clients you approve. Most tools are retrieval-only; commitment and meeting-classification tools can update local metadata. Clients we have tested include Claude Desktop, Cursor, Jan, LM Studio, and Ollama. The desktop app has to be running, and each connection requires explicit consent. See local vs cloud for the safety posture.
Yes, within a meeting. FluidAudio Sortformer fastV2_1 runs on-device and produces 4-speaker streaming diarisation per meeting. You can rename or merge those speakers and link them to profiles. Reviewed profile links seed local enrolments; once the speaker recall suggestions flag is enabled after calibration, close voice matches from later meetings can be suggested for confirmation when embeddings are available. Fully automatic cross-meeting voice recognition remains a roadmap item. You can filter search results by speaker.
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.
Quit the app and drag it from Applications. The local data directory (SQLite database at `~/Library/Application Support/Overshow/db_<user_id>.sqlite` and logs) sits under your macOS user profile and can be deleted manually. If you remove that support directory before reinstalling, Overshow treats the next launch as a fresh install, clears stale account Keychain entries, and asks you to sign in again.