Encrypted at rest on your laptop
The local database is encrypted with key material derived from your platform keychain. There is no cloud replica to lose.
Private by architecture, not by promise.
A privacy policy is a promise. An architecture is a fact. Overshow is built so your work memory cannot leave your device without your explicit, revocable consent.
Where your data lives, and does not
Processed on-device
Speech-to-text, OCR, and semantic search all run locally. Captured frames, audio, documents, and queries do not need an external model.
Transit only when you opt in
Routine traffic covers account, billing, and device registration. Explicit exports and integrations stay under your control.
What Overshow never does.
No cloud copy of your memory
There is no server-side knowledge base. A breach of our servers would not expose the private memory stored on your Mac.
No retained screen recordings
Screen frames are read for text and context, then discarded. Overshow keeps the understanding, not the pixels.
No training on your data
Your memory is not a training corpus. Models are trained elsewhere and shipped to your device.
No silent sharing, ever
There is no content telemetry on what you capture, search, or ask. Sharing happens only through an action you take.
Control is a panel, not a paragraph.
Pause capture from the menu bar, the app, or a shortcut. Ignore lists and exclusion categories keep sensitive surfaces out entirely, and no admin or cloud process can override them on your behalf.
Capture
Pause all captureOne action
Password managersAlways excluded
Private browsing and remote desktopsBuilt-in rules
Banking, health, and custom patternsOptional blocks
What Overshow's servers see
Sign-in and billingRoutine
Device registration metadataRoutine
Aggregate licence stateRoutine
Your captures, searches, and questionsNever
Your data, on your terms, including deletion.
Retention is configurable. Exports happen only when you run them. Delete the local database and the work memory is gone because there is no server-side copy to chase.
- Retention configurable from Settings
- Exports are manual and user initiated
- Delete the local database with one explicit action
Settings, data
RetentionYour choice
DatabaseEncrypted locally
ExportManual only
Delete everythingOne action
Questions people ask before installing
The safest place for your work memory is your own machine.
Review the Trust Centre or start with Overshow and inspect the local model yourself.