Privacy.
Your screen stays between your Macs.
No account, no tracking, no cookies. Here is what the apps and this site handle.
The apps
Encore and Encore Receiver talk directly to each other over your own network or cable, always encrypted. The picture is never sent to us or anyone else.
To update, each app downloads a small public file from this website and, when there is a new version, the app from GitHub. No system profile is sent.
Hey Mac
Listening is off until you turn it on. The wake word and your question are recognised on the iMac itself; only the text of the question leaves it, sent to the AI service whose key you added.
Paying
Checkout runs on Stripe, under Stripe's privacy policy. After paying you get a licence key. No account is created.
This website
No cookies and no cookie banner. We count visits anonymously, as daily totals per page, referring site and country; to tell visitors apart for one day we keep a one-way hash of your IP address and browser for at most two days, and we never store the IP address itself. Downloads come from GitHub Releases, under GitHub's privacy statement.
The old waitlist
Before launch we kept a waitlist with confirmed email addresses, stored with Supabase. We use it only for one launch email and then delete it, or earlier when you ask.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you can ask what we store, have it corrected or deleted, and object to its use. Write to us through the Encore page on GitHub and we act within 30 days. Controller: the Encore project, Ghent, Belgium.
Problem reports
If you report a problem, we store what you send: your description, any screenshot or log, the app version, your Mac and iMac model and, if you give it, your e-mail address. We store a one-way hash of your IP address to stop abuse. Reports are only used to fix Encore, and you can ask us to delete yours.