Oculta hides from the share too, and it is built for a different job.
Oculta is a presenter’s overlay: a script under your camera, arrow keys to step through it, speaker notes imported from a deck, and screen-share hiding on its Pro tier. HushNotes hides every note window by default and keeps every note in one searchable Shelf.
Floats on topOut of screen sharesOne-key capture$9.99 once
The short answer.
If you only read one part of this page, read this.
Choose HushNotes if…
- You want notes over your work, full-screen apps included
- You want screen-share hiding on by default, not on a paid tier
- You want the same notes on more than one Mac
- You’d rather pay $9.99 once than $29.99 for Pro
Choose Oculta if…
- You need to sit a script under your camera, teleprompter style
- You need to import speaker notes from a slide deck
- You need to guide a sales call with objection templates
- You need to start on a free tier
If most of your calls are a script you read from, Oculta was built for that. Nothing here asks you to stop.
What each one
gives you.
Every line Oculta wins is here too. Each cell comes from the vendor’s own documentation.
| Capability | HushNotes | Oculta |
|---|---|---|
| Capture selected text from any app with one key | Yes, one key | Not documented, Type, paste or import a deck |
| Keeps where the text came from | Yes, The app’s name and icon | Not documented |
| Floats above other apps, full screen included | Yes, full screen too | Floats, yes, Full screen not documented |
| Hidden from screen sharing and screenshots | Yes, by default | Yes, on Pro, Free: a one-time 10-minute preview |
| Hide every note from another app, with one key | Yes, one key, ⌥⇧H, and it relocks | Not documented |
| Lock a note behind Touch ID | Yes, per note | Not documented |
| Paper per note, opacity per window | Six papers, 10–100%, The paper fades, never the ink | Not documented, Custom look on Pro, scope not documented |
| Works without an account | Yes, none exists | Yes, No registration |
| Syncs to iPhone and iPad | No, Between Macs, through iCloud | No sync, Mac only, notes stay on the Mac |
| Export your notes | No, Does not ship today | Yes, Format not documented |
| Agents can read your notes | Yes, four tools, Off by default, no delete | Not documented |
| Price | $9.99 once33% off at launch | $29.99 onceFree tier; Pro also by subscription |
Nine things it does, four it will not.
HushNotes does a few things well. Here are the limits too, so you can decide with both lists in front of you.
HushNotes does
- Keep a selection from any app, one key
- Keep the name of the app it came from
- Float over full-screen apps
- Stay out of screen shares and screenshots
- Clear the desk from wherever you are
- Lock a note behind Touch ID
- Give each note its own paper; opacity per window
- Work with no account, offline, paid once
- Answer an agent, on your machine only
HushNotes doesn’t
- Sit a script under your camera, teleprompter style
- Import speaker notes from a slide deck
- Guide a sales call with objection templates
- Start on a free tier
Oculta covers all four of the second list. Its speaker-notes import is on Pro.
One of these has a free tier.
Oculta Pro is $29.99 once, or a subscription, and its free tier has the screen-share hiding only as a one-time preview. HushNotes is $9.99 once, with the hiding on from the start.
Notes that outlast the call.
What you write or capture stays in one Shelf with local search, and can sync between your Macs if you switch it on.
Your notes are on your screen,
not in the share.
Every note window is left out of screen shares, recordings and screenshots, on by default. Oculta hides too, on its Pro tier; its free tier gets a one-time 10-minute preview.
The awkward ones,
answered.
Asked the way people ask them.
Yes, on its Pro tier. Oculta documents staying out of full-screen shares, window shares, screenshots and recordings, and its free tier gets a one-time 10-minute preview. HushNotes leaves every note window out of the share by default, on its one licence.
Yes. Its notes sit in a band under the camera so you keep eye contact, the arrow keys step through them without leaving the meeting window, and it imports the speaker notes from a PowerPoint deck. HushNotes has none of that. It is built for the notes you keep while you work, not for reading a script.
Yes, with a few notes and without the screen-share hiding, apart from that one-time preview. Pro is $29.99 once on the App Store, or a subscription. HushNotes has no free tier: it is $9.99 once.
With HushNotes, through your own iCloud, if you switch it on. It is off by default. Oculta documents keeping its notes inside its own app container on one Mac. Neither has an iPhone or iPad app.
The menu bar icon, which macOS always shows and which holds no note content, and a camera pointed at your display. Treat it as a strong privacy measure and not a guarantee.
That Oculta publishes no answer on that row. Nothing there was proven absent, only left undocumented, which is why it does not read No.