Your screen stays on your Mac.

LivePin is designed to display the window, file, website or camera you choose without collecting its contents.

Screen content

LivePin uses Apple’s ScreenCaptureKit to display a window you explicitly select. Captured frames pass through temporary memory only for immediate local display.

LivePin does not record your screen or take screenshots.
LivePin does not save, upload, transmit or analyse captured frames.
LivePin does not perform OCR or extract text from a captured window.
LivePin does not capture system audio or microphone audio.

Closing a pin stops its capture stream and releases its rendering resources. LivePin never resumes screen capture automatically after launch.

LivePin Pro sources

Pro can also display a website or direct video address, a file you select, or a camera you select. Website requests go directly to the website you entered through a non-persistent browser session. Files remain on your Mac. Camera video and optional background effects are processed on-device and are never recorded or transmitted by LivePin.

Purchases and licence activation

LivePin Pro checkout is processed by Stripe Managed Payments. Stripe acts as merchant of record for the transaction and processes payment, tax, fraud prevention and receipt information under Stripe’s privacy policy.

After payment, LivePin’s licensing service creates your licence key and an optional recovery file containing the same purchase email and key. When you activate or validate Pro, the app sends only your licence key, purchase email address, a random installation identifier and licence status request to that service. The service stores a one-way hash of the key rather than the key itself. This is used to verify the purchase and apply the three-Mac activation limit. Screen contents, files, URLs, camera video, window names and usage activity are never included.

Local preferences

LivePin stores presentation preferences on your Mac, including opacity, pin size, shortcut, crop and layouts. A Pro layout may contain a URL or a secure bookmark to a file you explicitly selected. It never contains captured frames, file contents, cookies, passwords, forms, OCR text or camera data.

Website

livepinapp.com does not use advertising, analytics or tracking cookies. Our hosting and licensing providers may process ordinary security and request logs needed to deliver those services. Downloading Free does not require an account.

Your choices

You can stop an active capture by closing a pin or quitting LivePin. macOS permissions can be changed in System Settings. A Pro licence can be deactivated from the app or by contacting support.

Contact

For privacy or licence questions, email tim@rycroft.co.