Is ClapAssist safe to use? The straight answer

Yes for your screen and your data. The rules are the interviewer's.

Hidden from screen share, by the operating system

On Mac, the window is marked as not shareable. On Windows, it uses the system setting that removes a window from capture. Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and other apps all share the screen through the system, so the window is not in what they send. It is not in recordings either.

ClapAssist also never joins the call. It hears the call on your own computer, so there is no bot, no extra guest and no meeting link to share.

Do not take our word for it. Use your 10 free minutes, open the screen share check, share your whole screen and click the eye button in the ClapAssist bar. You see for yourself whether it shows. Every computer is a little different, so test on the one you will use.

The honest limits

• Your eyes. If you read for a long time, it shows. Keep the window near your camera, glance, then answer in your own words.
• A phone or second camera pointed at your screen sees everything, like any other window.
• Exam and proctoring apps that look at your whole computer can see that ClapAssist is running.
• Locked-down coding test sites such as HackerRank and CoderPad watch window focus and keystrokes. ClapAssist is not built to get around them.
• In-person interviews. There is no screen to hide it on.

We warn you. We do not hide from them.

Some tools promise to hide from proctoring software. ClapAssist does the opposite. Turn on Settings → General → Exam app warning and it tells you when a known exam app is open, such as Respondus LockDown Browser, ProctorU, Examplify, Safe Exam Browser or Mercer Mettl. The banner says plainly: the exam app can see ClapAssist.

The warning is off until you turn it on. It only sees apps installed on your computer, not proctoring that runs inside a browser tab. It never hides, renames or blocks anything.

What we keep, and what we never store

• Your resume, the job description and your notes stay on your computer. They travel only inside the request that makes an answer, and are never stored on our servers.
• Interview audio is used to make the answer and is not kept on our servers.
• Recaps and past sessions are saved on your own computer, never uploaded.
• No analytics tracker runs inside the app.
• To make an answer, the question and what you share go to the AI model provider. We do not sell your data or use it to train our own models.
• Payments go through our payment providers, Razorpay and Dodo Payments. We never see your card number.
• Passwords are stored only as hashes and checked against known data breaches when you set them. Your sign-in on the laptop is encrypted by your operating system.

The full wording is in the privacy policy. To delete your account and its data, email support@clapassist.com from your account address.

Is it safe to install?

Mac: the app is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens with no warning.

Windows: our installer is not code-signed yet, so Chrome and Windows SmartScreen may warn you. That warning is about the missing signature, not about something found in the file. Click Keep, then More info → Run anyway. Only download it from clapassist.com.

On Mac, the system asks for the microphone and for screen and system audio recording. The microphone hears you, system audio hears the interviewer, and the screen lets it read the question you point it at. It uses them when you start a session or ask it something.

When you should not use it

Some companies tell you AI help is not allowed. Some say nothing. Some expect it. Read the invite, and ask if you are not sure. If the rules say no, do not use it.

Never use it on a proctored exam or a locked-down coding test. It is not built for that, and those apps can see it.

ClapAssist is built to help you say your own experience clearly when your mind goes blank. It writes from your resume, so the answer is about work you really did. You still have to know it well enough to talk about it when they ask a follow-up.