Privacy and permissions
Permissions Frayo asks for
| Permission | Why | Required |
|---|---|---|
| Screen & System Audio Recording | To see your screen when you capture | Yes |
| Microphone | Only if you set Sound to Microphone or Both | No |
Grant Screen Recording in System Settings › Redaction & Security › Screen & System Audio Recording. Then quit and reopen Frayo. macOS requires that restart.
What stays on your Mac
- Captures are files in your captures folder (default
~/Pictures/Frayo). The text read from them, their window titles and their bug-report context stay in~/Library/Application Support/Frayo/Index, on this Mac only. They are never put in your captures folder, so no sync service sees them. - Reading text in screenshots and scanning QR codes both use macOS's Vision framework on your Mac. Nothing is sent anywhere for them.
- The index of text inside your screenshots is stored on your Mac next to each capture.
- Copy Text and Scan QR use a temporary file that is deleted right after.
- Frayo contains no code that sends your captures, text or usage anywhere.
What gets sent if you use a sync folder
If your captures folder is inside iCloud Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive, that service uploads what is in it: your captures (a capture's file name is part of it, and so is any name you gave it by renaming) and a small hidden .Frayo folder with each capture's id, which Mac took it, and its saved and bookmarked marks. That is its job, not Frayo's. Leave the save folder on your Mac if you do not want that.
Window titles
To name captures, Frayo notes the app and window title that were in front ("Safari · Pull Request #482"). A title can contain private words. It is stored on this Mac only (never synced), is searchable here, and shows only on the Mac that took the capture. Rename or delete the capture to remove it. A name you type yourself becomes the file name, so it does sync with the file.
Delete your data
- Trash a capture in the Library to remove it.
- Settings › Library controls automatic expiry.
- To remove everything, quit Frayo, delete your captures folder and
~/Library/Application Support/Frayo.
Revoke access
Turn Frayo off in the same System Settings list. It can no longer capture until you turn it on again.