Last updated: October 2026
The short version: EasyGrab collects nothing and sends nothing anywhere. A screen recorder sees a lot — your screen, your voice, maybe your face and your keyboard — so the rest of this page says exactly what it does with each.
None. There are no accounts, no sign-in, no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising and no third-party code. I have no way to see your recordings or anything else you do in the app.
EasyGrab contains no networking code, and its App Sandbox doesn't give it permission to use the network in the first place. Recording, zooming, trimming and exporting all happen on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded, and nothing phones home.
EasyGrab captures what you pick — a whole display or a window you choose in macOS's own picker, or the area you drag out — together with your Mac's sound, and only from the moment you start recording until you stop. Choosing in macOS's picker is itself your say-so; a dragged area needs macOS's Screen Recording permission, which you grant in System Settings.
While it records, it also notes where the pointer is and when you click, so the zoom and the pointer effects can follow it afterwards. That needs no extra permission.
Double-tapping Shift to zoom needs none either. EasyGrab checks whether Shift or another modifier key is down, and whether any key went down at that moment, never which one, so it can tell a double-tap from Shift used for capitals or a shortcut. It keeps nothing but "zoomed in" or "not" for each moment of the recording.
macOS asks before EasyGrab can use the microphone. It records your voice alongside the screen, into the recording on your Mac, and nowhere else. The microphone is optional: choose Microphone › Off in the menu and EasyGrab records the screen and your Mac's sound without it.
The webcam is off until you turn it on. When it's on, the camera runs only while you record — for the picture-in-picture and for the live preview that shows where it will sit in the video. The webcam footage is saved as its own file next to the screen recording, so you can change its shape, corner and size in review.
Showing your shortcuts on screen is off by default. EasyGrab asks for Input Monitoring only when you turn it on, or when you click Allow next to it in the welcome window, and it listens to the keyboard only from the moment you start recording until you stop.
In "Shortcuts only" mode — the default — it keeps only shortcuts (keys pressed with ⌘, ⌃ or ⌥) and keys like Esc, the arrows and the F-keys. Plain typing is dropped the moment it's pressed and never stored. If you switch to "All keys", what you type is kept so it can appear in the video, so use that mode only for takes where you'd show the typing anyway.
In either mode, nothing is kept while a password field has focus: macOS marks those fields as secure, and EasyGrab throws away every key pressed while that's on. One catch: Terminal's password prompts (sudo, ssh) are only marked that way when Terminal ▸ Secure Keyboard Entry is on, so in "All keys" mode the app warns you about exactly that before you switch. The keys are saved as a small file in the recording's folder and used only to draw the chips in the video. You can turn Input Monitoring off at any time in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Input Monitoring.
Every take goes into its own folder inside EasyGrab's own folder on your Mac. Open Recordings Folder in the menu shows it. A take's folder holds the screen recording, the webcam recording if you used one, the pointer notes and, if keystroke display was on, the key file. Delete a take's folder and it's gone; EasyGrab keeps no other copy. (Exports you saved, and your own backups, are yours to delete separately.)
Exports go wherever you choose in the save panel. The app also remembers your settings between launches — frame rate, which mic and camera, the webcam look, the last area you recorded and so on — in its own preferences on your Mac.
This button opens YouTube Studio's upload page in your web browser and shows the exported file in Finder. That's all it does. EasyGrab doesn't sign in to YouTube or upload anything; you drag the file in yourself, and from there it's between you and YouTube, under Google's privacy policy.
EasyGrab is sold through the Mac App Store, and Apple handles the purchase. I don't receive your payment details, your name or your email address.
Questions about this policy? Email director@easyliving.film. It goes to the person who built the app, not a support queue.
Send Feedback… in EasyGrab's menu opens a new email to that address in your own mail app, with the app's version and your macOS version filled in. Nothing is sent unless you press Send, and you can edit or delete anything in it first.