Privacy policy.

Last updated: March 2026

The short version.

Your data never leaves your Mac. We don't collect it, we don't store it, we don't sell it. There is no cloud, no account, no analytics. Everything Screengrep captures stays on your machine. We couldn't access your data even if we wanted to.

What Screengrep captures

When active, Screengrep captures:

  • Screenshots of all connected displays (once per second)
  • System audio and microphone audio (transcribed locally)
  • macOS notifications from all apps
  • Clipboard changes (copy events)
  • Active browser URLs
  • Calendar events from the system calendar
  • File open/save activity

All of this data is processed and stored locally on your Mac. None of it is transmitted to any server, cloud service, or third party.

Where your data is stored

All captured data is stored in a local database on your Mac, inside the Screengrep application support directory:

~/Library/Application Support/Screengrep/

This directory is only accessible to your macOS user account. Screengrep does not sync this data to iCloud, and it is not included in iCloud backups by default.

What we collect

Nothing. Specifically:

We do not collect
  • ✕ Screenshots or screen content
  • ✕ Audio recordings or transcripts
  • ✕ Notification content
  • ✕ Clipboard data
  • ✕ Browsing history or URLs
  • ✕ Usage analytics or telemetry
  • ✕ Personal information of any kind
We do use
  • ✓ App Store purchase verification (via Apple)
  • ✓ Crash reports (only if you opt in via macOS)

AI processing

All AI features — including text extraction (OCR), audio transcription, summarization, tagging, and natural language search — run entirely on your Mac using Apple Intelligence and the Apple Neural Engine.

No data is sent to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or any other AI provider. No data is sent to Apple's servers for processing. The AI models run locally on your hardware.

MCP Server

The MCP server (Pro feature) runs on localhost only. It is not accessible from the network. Only applications running on your Mac can connect to it.

When you connect an AI assistant (like Claude or Cursor) via MCP, the AI assistant may send your data to its own servers as part of its normal operation. This is governed by that tool's privacy policy, not ours. Screengrep simply provides the local interface.

Your controls

You have full control over your data:

  • Pause recording — click the menu bar icon or use ⌘+Shift+P
  • Exclude apps — add any app to the exclusion list in Settings
  • Set retention limits — automatically delete data older than your chosen period, or cap total storage
  • Delete everything — one click in Settings permanently erases all captured data
  • Uninstall — deleting the app removes all data from your Mac

Can my employer see my data?

No. Screengrep stores everything locally on your Mac. There is no admin dashboard, no cloud sync, no remote access, and no way for anyone else — including us — to view your captures.