PrivacyStage: Screen Privacy

Present without oversharing

Only for Mac

$9.99

Mac

Your screen is a camera now. Hide any window, your desktop icons and every notification from your audience — live, mid-meeting. One purchase, no subscription. Share your screen without sharing everything on it. PrivacyStage turns your Mac's screen into a camera you control. Instead of broadcasting your entire desktop and hoping nothing embarrassing appears, you decide — live — exactly what your audience sees. Pick PrivacyStage as your camera in Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or any app that takes a webcam, and your screen appears as video. Then hide whatever you want, while you're still talking. WHAT YOUR AUDIENCE STOPS SEEING • Any window you choose — tick it and it vanishes from the broadcast instantly. Untick it and it's back. No pausing, no restarting, no awkward "one second, let me close something". • Finder, and your desktop with it — that folder called "taxes_FINAL_v3" stays your business, and so does every file name in an open Finder window. Your own Mac is untouched; nothing is moved or renamed. • Every notification banner — private messages, email previews, calendar alerts. You still receive them normally. Your audience simply never sees them. THE PANIC HOTKEY Press ⌃⌥⌘H from anywhere — even when PrivacyStage isn't the active app — and the hide list is in front of you. Something appeared that shouldn't have? One shortcut, and you're in control again. Fully customisable. AI PRIVACY MASK PrivacyStage scans your screen with Apple's Vision framework and finds text you probably didn't mean to show: email addresses, credit card numbers, phone numbers, social security numbers. It highlights them so you can blur them before anyone reads them. The scan runs entirely on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded, ever. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO PRESENT FOR A LIVING • Sales engineers running live demos • Teachers and course creators recording lessons • Consultants sharing work while other clients' files sit one window away • Developers showing code with API keys in the next tab • Anyone who has ever felt that jolt of "wait, was that visible?" PRIVACY, ACTUALLY Every pixel is processed on your Mac. No screen data is transmitted, stored or analysed anywhere else. There is no analytics SDK and no account to create. The app makes no network requests at all. AVAILABLE IN FIVE LANGUAGES English, Arabic (with full right-to-left support), Simplified Chinese, Spanish and French. HOW IT WORKS — THE IMPORTANT PART PrivacyStage works by presenting itself as a camera. Your audience sees your filtered screen because they are watching the PrivacyStage camera feed. This means you select PrivacyStage as your camera in your meeting app — you do not use that app's "Share Screen" button. macOS does not allow any app to filter another app's screen share, so no app can do that. PrivacyStage gives you a feed you fully control instead. First launch walks you through enabling Screen Recording and installing the camera extension. It takes about a minute. ONE PURCHASE. EVERYTHING INCLUDED. • Virtual camera broadcast • Hide any window, live • Finder Shield — hide Finder and your desktop from your broadcast • Notification Shield — hide notification banners from your broadcast • One-click Presentation Mode • Panic hotkey • AI-powered OCR privacy mask • Free updates No subscription. No renewals. No in-app purchases. Buy it once and it is yours, on every Mac signed in to your Apple ID. Requires macOS 14.6 or later.

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The developer, Ahmad Eltokhy, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

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    Information

    Seller
    Ahmad Eltokhy
    Size
    2.1 MB
    Category
    Productivity
    Compatibility
    Requires macOS 14.6 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 14.6 or later.
    Languages
    English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    © aieltokhy
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    • Supports

    • Family Sharing

      Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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