Privacy
Cadre is a screen recorder that runs on your Mac. This page describes exactly what it does with your data, which is very little.
Your recordings never leave your Mac
Recordings, edits and exported videos are written to your own disk and are never uploaded anywhere. Cadre has no cloud storage, no sync and no account system for your content.
Captions are transcribed on your Mac
Caption generation runs a speech model locally on your machine. Your audio is not sent to us or to any third party for transcription.
There is no analytics or telemetry
Cadre does not collect usage analytics, does not report crashes to us, and contains no tracking or advertising code of any kind. We cannot see what you record, how often you use the app, or whether you use it at all.
When Cadre does use the network
Cadre makes outbound connections in only three situations:
- Licence activation and periodic revalidation. Your licence key and the email address on the purchase are sent to our licence service and to Lemon Squeezy, our payment provider, to confirm the subscription is active. Cadre keeps working offline between checks.
- Downloading a caption model. If you choose to generate captions, the speech model is downloaded once from Hugging Face. No audio is sent — only the model comes down.
- Checking for updates. Cadre asks GitHub whether a newer version exists.
What we hold about you
If you buy a subscription, Lemon Squeezy processes the payment as merchant of record and holds your billing details under its own privacy policy. We receive your email address and licence status so we can support you and keep your subscription working. We do not receive or store your card details.
macOS permissions
Cadre asks macOS for Screen Recording, and optionally for Microphone, Camera, Accessibility and Input Monitoring. These are used solely to capture the recording you asked for and to track the cursor and keystrokes that drive automatic zoom. Everything they produce stays in your project folder on disk.
Your rights
You can ask what data we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, and object to how it is used. Write to us and we will respond.
Contact
Questions about privacy: arthur.orts@gmail.com.