Most screen recorders upload your footage to the cloud to process it. Girato doesn't. It's local-first by design: the recording, the cinematic auto-zoom, the backdrops, the captions and the final export all happen on your machine. That's not a setting you turn on, it's how the product works.
What never leaves your device
- Your screen recording — captured, edited and rendered locally. We never receive it.
- Your microphone & webcam — recorded and mixed locally.
- Your captions — transcribed by an on-device speech model. Your audio is never uploaded.
- Your exports — the finished MP4/WebM/GIF is written straight to your disk (or download in the browser).
- Your projects & settings — stored locally on your machine / in your own browser.
What we do hold — and why
To sell you a licence and support you, we hold a small amount of account data: your email address, your plan and expiry, the Stripe identifiers that connect a payment to a licence, and an anonymous per-device ID so a licence can activate on up to three of your devices. That's it. No recordings, no audio, no exports, ever.
This data is stored with our hosting provider (Netlify) and our email provider (Resend); payments run through Stripe, so we never see your card details. Full detail, retention and your rights are in the Privacy Policy.
Private by default
- No advertising pixels or analytics trackers on this site.
- We never sell your data.
- The desktop app works offline; the internet is only needed to activate your licence and to download the optional captions model once.
- Full data-subject rights (access, deletion, export) under UK GDPR / GDPR — just email us.
Reporting a vulnerability
Found a security issue? We appreciate responsible disclosure. Email hello@girato.app with the details and we'll respond promptly.
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