Stealth mode — invisible on screen-share

Stealth mode is the desktop app's headline feature: the AI overlay window is excluded from screen-share, screen recording, and OS-level screenshots. Your interviewer sees nothing on their end even if you share your screen with them; the AI panel only exists on your local display.

Available on the Pro+ plan (monthly or yearly) and Lifetime. Not available on Free or the standard Pro plan.

How it works

We use OS-level "private window" APIs:

• Windows: SetWindowDisplayAffinity with WDA_EXCLUDEFROMCAPTURE. The Windows display compositor renders the window normally to your monitor but skips it when any capture API requests pixels.
• macOS: NSWindowSharingType = NSWindowSharingNone on every overlay window. macOS's capture system returns black for those windows.

This is not a hack on top of the screen-share app — it's the same primitive Zoom, OBS, and Apple use internally for sensitive UI like password managers and biometric prompts. It works on every platform that respects the OS capture API:

• ✅ Zoom (host + participant share)
• ✅ Google Meet
• ✅ Microsoft Teams
• ✅ Webex
• ✅ Discord screen-share
• ✅ macOS QuickTime recording
• ✅ Windows Game Bar / Xbox capture
• ✅ OBS Studio (display capture)

Verifying stealth mode is on

The desktop topbar shows a green eye-off badge when stealth is active. If you don't see it:

1. Check Settings (gear icon) → Stealth Mode toggle — it's on by default for Pro+ but can be manually disabled
2. Confirm your plan: Profile → Billing should show Pro+ Monthly, Pro+ Yearly, or Lifetime
3. If stealth is on but you can still see the overlay in a test screen-share — open a Zoom test meeting (zoom.us/test) and share your screen to yourself in another tab. The overlay should disappear in the shared video while staying visible on your actual monitor.

What stealth mode does NOT hide

Be honest with yourself about the threat model:

• Your eye movement. If you stare at the corner of your screen reading AI answers, an attentive interviewer will notice. Practice glancing, not reading aloud.
• Audio. The AI doesn't speak — but if you're using text-to-speech for accessibility, that audio is captured by your meeting's mic. Stealth covers visual capture only.
• Camera angle clues. A laptop camera reflects your screen in glasses, glossy walls, or your own glasses. Most interviewers don't notice; the paranoid ones might.
• Physical capture. A second device pointed at your screen (phone, camera) records everything regardless of OS APIs. Don't interview in front of a recording phone.

Other features gated on Pro+

Bundled with stealth mode:

• Always-pro AI model — Claude Opus or Sonnet, never auto-downgraded under load
• 2 concurrent sessions — run a coaching review while a live interview is happening
• Resume AI scoring with full rubric breakdown
• Unlimited interview minutes — no monthly cap

Upgrading

Visit /pricing and pick Pro+ Monthly or Pro+ Yearly. Yearly is $79/mo billed annually — about 20% cheaper per month than monthly. Lifetime is currently paused; the legacy Lifetime plan is grandfathered.

Common questions

Q: Can the interviewer see the AI overlay? A: No — not via Zoom/Meet/Teams screen-share, not via QuickTime/OBS, not via any standard capture API. The OS compositor literally skips our window when serving pixels to capture apps. Your monitor shows it; their stream doesn't.

Q: How do I know stealth is ON for me? A: Two ways — (1) green "eye-off" badge in the desktop topbar, (2) /profile → Plan section shows "Pro+" or "Lifetime". Free / Hour Pack / standard Pro do NOT have stealth.

Q: I'm on the standard Pro plan — why don't I have stealth? A: Stealth is Pro+ only. Upgrade at /pricing → Pro+ Monthly ($99) or Pro+ Yearly ($79/mo). Standard Pro is unlimited AI but visible overlay.

Q: Stealth doesn't work in OBS / it's recording the overlay. A: Make sure OBS is using Display Capture (not Window Capture). Window Capture targets a specific window by handle and bypasses the capture-exclude flag. Display Capture goes through the OS compositor and honors stealth.

Q: Does stealth hide me from my company's monitoring software? A: It hides from anything using standard OS capture APIs — which is 99% of monitoring tools. Kernel-level keyloggers, screen-recording drivers, and EDR agents at ring 0 might bypass it. If you're worried, don't interview on a work laptop.

Q: Can I turn stealth OFF? A: Yes — desktop Settings (gear) → Stealth Mode toggle. Off = overlay shows in shared stream. Useful if you're demo'ing the product or want to share your screen showing the AI.

Q: Will macOS Sequoia / Windows 11 24H2 / [new OS version] break stealth? A: Both APIs are first-party (Apple + Microsoft) and stable. Major OS updates don't break them. We test against each new release; if a bug appears, we ship a patch fast.

Q: Why doesn't Free or standard Pro get stealth? A: Stealth is our top differentiator vs Cluely ($149/mo for stealth alone). Bundling it into Free would commoditize the value. Pro+ at $79/mo (yearly) is dramatically cheaper than Cluely while including unlimited AI + always-Opus.

I'm getting flagged anyway

A small number of corporate environments run secondary screen-recording agents at the OS-driver level that bypass the public capture APIs. These are rare (a few enterprise EDR tools), but if your interviewer's company runs one, the overlay may show. We're investigating a kernel-level driver for fully bulletproof invisibility — no shipped solution yet.

If you suspect this is happening, Contact us with the company name (we maintain a "known to detect" list internally) and we'll refund your last charge.

Video walkthrough

Coming soon — we'll record a side-by-side capture showing the overlay visible on the candidate's monitor and invisible in the shared stream.