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Your screen stays yours.

Last updated October 19, 2026

Screenmu records your screen, camera and microphone only when you ask it to, and everything it records stays on your Mac.

What leaves your Mac

Your recordings, and the edits you make to them, never do. Screenmu has no accounts, analytics, tracking or ads, and it never uploads anything.

Update checks

The one thing Screenmu fetches from the internet is news of an update. The second time you open it, it asks whether to check automatically; if you say yes, it checks screenmu.online about once a day. You can change that, or check by hand, in Settings › General.

A check is one ordinary web request for a short list of releases. As with any download, the server sees your IP address and which version of Screenmu you have; nothing that identifies you, your Mac or your recordings is sent. Updates download from GitHub, which hosts Screenmu’s releases, and Screenmu verifies each one’s signature before installing it.

What Screenmu uses, and why

• Screen Recording, to capture the display, window or area you choose.
• Microphone, to record your voice, when you turn the microphone on.
• Camera, to add your webcam to a recording, when you turn the camera on.
• Accessibility (optional), only for “Follow typing”: zooms follow the text cursor while you type. Screenmu reads where the text cursor is on screen, never what you type.

macOS asks you for each of these, and you can turn any of them off in System Settings at any time.

Where your recordings are kept

Recordings are saved in the folder you choose in Settings (Recordings in your Documents folder unless you change it). Alongside each video, Screenmu keeps a small file with where your pointer moved and clicked, which it uses to make zooms and draw the cursor. If that folder syncs to a cloud service, such as iCloud Drive, that service handles the files under its own policy. Deleting a recording in Finder removes it completely.

This website

This site has no analytics or tracking. It loads its fonts from Google Fonts, so your browser contacts Google’s servers when you visit, and the download itself is served by GitHub.

Changes

If Screenmu ever adds features that send anything off your Mac, this page will say what is sent and why before those features ship, and you will be able to choose whether to use them.