Privacy
The short version: your recordings, screenshots, audio and project files are never uploaded. Here is the detail.
What stays on your device
Recording, editing, blurring, tracking, exporting, GIF making, converting and text extraction all happen in your browser. Files you load or create are held in your browser's memory until you download them or close the tab.
What loads from the internet
| What | From | Why |
|---|---|---|
| This website's pages, styles, fonts and scripts | Our host (Vercel) | To show the site. After your first visit they are saved on your device so the site works offline. |
| Web analytics | Vercel Web Analytics | Counts page views and a few button clicks (for example Start recording, export and scroll depth) so we can see what is useful. It never receives your files or what you record. |
| OCR engine | jsDelivr, only when you use Extract text | Downloads the open source Tesseract.js library and its language data the first time. After that it is saved on your device. |
| Badges in the footer of the home page and a badge script | code.market, Twelve Tools, Launch Llama, DANG | Directory badges. Those sites can see that a page was loaded, like any image or script on the web. |
What we store in your browser
- ss-theme: your light or dark choice.
- ss-visits: a counter, shown in the footer, of how many times you opened the site on this device. It never leaves your browser.
- A cache of the site's files, so it works offline.
Microphone, camera and screen
Your browser asks before the page can use your screen, camera or microphone. Nothing is captured until you press Start recording and allow it. Live captions use your browser's built in speech recognition. Depending on your browser, that feature may send audio to the browser maker's speech service, so turn captions off if that matters to you.
Questions
You can check this yourself. Open your browser developer tools, look at the Network tab while you use any tool, and you will see that your files are never sent anywhere.