ezRecord privacy

Recording and transcription

Screen, camera and microphone are captured only while you record, and saved where you choose (Movies by default). Transcription, captions, voice clean-up, editing and export run on your Mac with Apple's frameworks. While you record, ezRecord can hide desktop icons, notifications and other apps from the capture; it never reads their contents.

The iPhone app

The iPhone app collects no data. It records, transcribes, edits and exports on your iPhone, and keeps your projects there. It uses the camera and microphone only while you record, speech recognition on the phone for transcripts and captions, and your photo library only for videos you pick or exports you save. It talks to one thing: your own Mac running ezRecord, over your local network, once you pair them. Then it can control a recording, film as an extra camera angle, send videos and links, and pass your messages to the Mac's assistant, which answers with the model you chose there. Nothing goes to us.

Cloud services you turn on

Some features send data to a service you set up with your own API key, and only when you use them: ElevenLabs (your voice clone, re-spoken words, dubbing, voiceovers, sound effects, music, voice isolation), Sarvam (Indian-language transcripts, voices and subtitles), TypeSafe (quick judgments such as retakes, highlights and chapters, from the transcript; smart zoom also sends the screen frame before each click, and the visual review sends a few frames of your edit; both ask first), the AI model you pick for the assistant (Apple Intelligence on your Mac by default; when you ask it to look at your edit, it gets a few still frames), and the vireeel media library. What's sent is what the feature needs: for example, your microphone audio for a voice clone, or the transcript for a title. Their own privacy policies apply. Keys are kept in the Keychain, never in files or logs.

Archive footage and old records come from free public archives with no account: the Internet Archive and the Moving Image Archive. Searching sends only your search words, and the clips you choose are downloaded to your Mac. Measuring a reference video, upscaling a clip, checking an export and keeping captions off your face all run on your Mac.

Agents

ezRecord runs a server for AI agents on your Mac at 127.0.0.1, reachable only from your Mac and only with a passcode kept in the Keychain. Remote access through a tunnel is off unless you turn it on, and then needs a separate token. Finding sensitive text on screen (keys, passwords, emails) runs entirely on your Mac. Skills you add are instructions and files kept in ezRecord's folder; ezRecord never runs code from them. When an agent records a product walkthrough, it controls your Mac with its own tools and permissions, not ezRecord's; ezRecord only records the window it's asked to.

Buying and licensing

Payments are handled by Stripe; we never see your card. We keep your purchase email, plan and license key to support you. When you activate, ezRecord sends your key and a one-way hash of your Mac's hardware ID (never the ID itself) so a license can cover up to three Macs; subscriptions and lifetime keys renew themselves with the same request now and then.

Updates and this website

Once a day ezRecord checks dl.harikanth.site for an update; the request carries the app's version and nothing about you. This page counts views and downloads, with the country a download came from, to see whether people find it useful. No cookies, no ads, no third-party trackers.

Questions

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