No accounts
Nothing to sign into. No email. No login. The app launches and works.
Privacy manifesto
We can't see your screen. Neither can anyone else.
ScreenMan is local-only by construction. Here's exactly what that means — and how to verify it on your own machine in under a minute.
Verify on your own Mac
Don't trust us. Trust your firewall.
Run ScreenMan. Open Activity Monitor → Network. Watch the bytes-out counter on the ScreenMan process. It doesn't move. Or use Little Snitch / nettop — same answer, more granular.
$ nettop -p ScreenMan -P -L 1 # bytes_in bytes_out state protocol # 0 0 Established tcp4 # # (zero outgoing bytes during a recording session)
We also grep the source tree on every build for any network or analytics SDK. That's our internal check — your firewall is the proof you can run yourself.
What ScreenMan never does.
No analytics
No telemetry SDKs. No event tracking. No "anonymised usage stats" toggle to forget about.
No crash reporting
No Sentry, no Bugsnag. If the app crashes, macOS logs it locally — same as TextEdit.
No cloud
Recordings stay in ~/Movies. Screenshots in ~/Pictures. They leave your Mac only when you choose.
What stays where on your Mac.
Every piece of ScreenMan data lives in a known local path. Nothing is uploaded, backed up, or synced unless you do it yourself.
Recordings
Or your chosen folder
~/Movies/ScreenMan/Screenshots
~/Pictures/ScreenMan/History database
Local SQLite, auto-prunes after 30 days
userData/history.dbOCR processing
On-device, no upload
macOS Vision frameworkSettings + licence
Local key/value store
userData/settings
macOS permissions we ask for.
ScreenMan only requests a permission when a feature actively needs it. If you don't use the keystroke HUD, we never ask for Accessibility.
Screen Recording
RequiredmacOS gates all screen capture behind this permission. Without it, ScreenMan cannot work at all.
Microphone
OptionalOnly requested when you enable mic capture. Skip it if you only need system audio.
Camera
OptionalOnly requested when you enable the webcam bubble overlay.
Accessibility
OptionalOnly requested when you enable the keystroke HUD overlay.
One small caveat
The app collects nothing. The website has one form.
If you submit your email to the launch-updates form in the footer, we store that address solely to send you a one-time announcement when ScreenMan launches. That's the only data this website collects, and it never touches the app or your Mac. We don't run a marketing list — there's a single launch email and that's it. We don't run analytics, fingerprinting, or any other tracking on the site.
The manifesto above ("we don't know how many people use ScreenMan") is about the app itself — and remains literally true.
Our commitment going forward
If anything ever goes online, it'll be opt-in.
Update checks, optional cloud uploads, sync — none of these exist yet, and if any ever do, they'll be opt-in, off by default, and disclosed in this document and the changelog before they ship.
Privacy is the default. Not a setting.
No toggles to forget. No analytics SDKs. Nothing to disable.