Share your screen. Keep your notes.
Your note windows stay out of screenshots, recordings, and shared screens. You see your notes, the call does not, and it is on by default.
$9.99 onceOn by defaultmacOS 14 or laterApple silicon and Intel
You see your notes. The call does not.
Your screen on the left, what the call receives on the right. Nothing to switch on before you share.
On by default for the notes, the Shelf, Settings and the capture pill. Switch it off in Settings › Privacy. The menu bar icon is the one thing macOS always shows.
How the mechanism worksWhere it earns its keep.
Three times the note matters more than what’s on screen.
Client calls
Keep the talk track, the price you’ll accept, and the names you must not forget floating over the deck. The call sees only the deck.
Recording tutorials
Your script sits beside the thing you are demonstrating, and stays out of the recording.
Working in public
Present to a full room or stream your screen. The note with the sensitive detail stays yours.
For eyes at your own desk,
lock it.
Screen-share privacy hides notes from the call. For someone at your own Mac, lock a note instead. Two audiences, two layers, working together.
- Touch ID or your passwordUnlock a note with your fingerprint, or your Mac’s login password.
- Encrypted, title readableIts text and images are encrypted while the title stays readable, so you can still find it.
- Never seen by a connected toolA coding tool connected over MCP never sees a locked note at all.
- Locks again on its ownAfter a few minutes, or when you press ⌥⇧H, lock the screen or sleep the Mac.
Click Unlock.
Asked, answered.
What people ask before a call that matters.
HushNotes sets the system window-sharing property that macOS gives every app, and screen-capture software reads it, so it holds across the software that records or shares your screen the standard way. It is Apple’s mechanism rather than ours, so treat it as a strong privacy measure and not a guarantee, and check it against your own setup before a call that matters.
Yes, including macOS screenshots. Turn it off in Settings › Privacy when you want to screenshot your own notes.
Locking seals a note behind Touch ID on your own Mac. Screen-share privacy hides every note from other people’s view of your screen. Different audiences; they work together.
No. It’s on by default for the notes, the Shelf, Settings and the capture pill. The one exception is the menu bar icon, which macOS always shows, and which never shows note content.
macOS 14 or later, like the rest of HushNotes. No extra permission is needed.