Ghost Notes lets you write notes that remain visible to you but invisible in screen shares and recordings.
Interview talking points:
Ghost Notes uses window capture protection built right into your operating system. Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, QuickTime, and OBS all skip the note automatically, since your OS excludes it for them.
Powerful features to keep your notes private, accessible, and out of the way.
Your notes stay visible locally while being excluded from Zoom, Meet, Teams, OBS, QuickTime, and any other capture.
Notes float above all other windows, including fullscreen apps, so your talking points are always in view.
Tap the ghost button and clicks pass straight through to whatever's underneath.
Change color, opacity, and text size in one click. Drag to move, drag edges to resize.
Closing a note doesn't delete it. Search, reopen, rename, and delete from one place.
Notes are stored on your device only. No account. No cloud. No telemetry.
Closing a note simply hides it, nothing gets deleted. Every note lives in the Notes Manager until you decide to remove it, and you can search, reopen, rename, or delete any of them from one place.
Ghost Notes stores everything locally. No server. No account. No analytics. The app never reads or transmits your note contents.
Open source · MIT licensedDesigned to stay out of your way. Every action you need, bound to a global shortcut.
Everything you need to know about Ghost Notes.
Yes. Ghost Notes is completely free and open source under the MIT license. No account, no subscription, no telemetry.
macOS (Intel & Apple Silicon, one universal build) and Windows 10/11. Screen capture exclusion uses each OS's native content protection API. Windows needs build 19041 (May 2020 Update) or newer, and the app will let you know on launch if yours is older.
Yes. Content protection works at the OS compositor level, so any application capturing the screen skips Ghost Notes windows regardless of how it captures.
No. Notes are saved on your computer only. No server, no sync service, no analytics. The app works fully offline.
No. Download, install, and use. No sign-in of any kind.
Yes. Ghost Notes runs and saves your notes fully offline, no internet connection needed.
Download the installer (.dmg for macOS, .exe for Windows) and run it. No terminal, no build step, no dependencies.
Download and install the latest release from GitHub Releases. Your notes are stored separately and are not affected by updates.
Free, open source, and local-first. No account required.