MAXCAP / PRIVACY
Privacy Policy
In short: your captures stay on your Mac. MaxCap has no account, no analytics and no crash upload; we receive none of your captures, text or usage data.
What we collect
Nothing. MaxCap contains no analytics, advertising or telemetry code, licence keys are verified offline and no device identifier exists. This website uses no analytics scripts or cookies either.
Every network request MaxCap makes
| Request | When | What is sent |
|---|---|---|
maxcap.cc/updates/stable.json |
When you press Check now in Settings › Updates, or once a day if you turn automatic checks on (off by default) | A plain HTTPS request with no identifiers or capture data |
maxcap.cc/updates/MaxCap_<version>.app.tar.gz |
Only after you choose to download an update | A plain HTTPS request |
Like any website, our host (Cloudflare) briefly processes the requesting IP address in its server logs for delivery and abuse prevention.
Data kept on your Mac
- Capture images and thumbnails; the app, window title, display and time of each capture.
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For browser captures, the site and page title (stored as
scheme://host/pathonly, without query parameters); you can turn this off and clear it in Settings › Privacy. - On-device text recognition (Apple Vision) results, the search index and your notes.
- Image fingerprints and content hashes for similar captures, computed on your Mac.
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Your licence key and trial dates; the trial start is also kept in the Keychain
(
cc.maxcap.trial) so deleting the library does not restart the trial. - Settings, sessions, the Shelf, share history and local logs.
New captures are deleted after 24 hours unless you pin or archive them. Deleting a capture deletes its text, notes and page information. Quit MaxCap and delete its data folder to remove everything.
Sensitive apps
Password managers and similar apps are excluded by default: MaxCap refuses to capture while they are in front, and hides their windows from region and screen captures. You can change the list in Settings › Privacy.
macOS permissions
Screen Recording is used to capture. Accessibility (optional) is used for automatic scrolling captures and reading browser addresses.
Future features
Any new network feature (for example cloud sharing, sending to Eagle or issue trackers) will be off by default, need you to turn it on, and be listed on this page first.