What it captures
Screens, audio, documents, and windows. How much, and how to limit it.
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Screens (every monitor you record), meeting audio when a meeting is active or manually started, and local documents in folders you point it at. OCR reads text off every captured frame. Transcription runs in fixed 20-30 second windows with a short overlap tail.
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.
v1.0 is macOS 26 (Tahoe) on Apple Silicon only. See system requirements for details.
Overshow records all displays simultaneously and tracks which monitor each capture came from. You can pick which monitors to record and exclude a specific one. The installation steps cover how to choose monitors on first run.
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.
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.
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.
One active device per user. Signing in on a second laptop revokes the first one automatically. This keeps capture and billing linked to a single machine. See the security page for the identity model.
Unlimited searchable history. Everything else (capture, OCR, transcription, search, chat, meetings) is already included on Free with a 7-day window. See pricing for the full breakdown.
Free already gives every feature for 7 days. When you want unlimited history, move to Pro; there is no separate trial to start or end. You can join the beta to get in early, or go straight to pricing.
SSO (Google, Microsoft Entra ID), a dedicated account manager, SLA-backed support, and a 3-month paid pilot scoped to up to 25 users. Enterprise pricing is custom and sized to the organisation. Submit an enterprise enquiry to talk.
The Trust Centre lists the artefacts: data flow, encryption, sub-processors (Neon, Stripe, Vercel), identity model, capture controls, and operational health. The security page covers the specifics. We walk security teams through each of them for enterprise pilots.