{"id":112,"date":"2026-01-26T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craqly.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2026-07-22T16:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:11:10","slug":"desktop-vs-web-vs-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craqly.com\/blog\/desktop-vs-web-vs-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Desktop, web or mobile: the architecture decides whether an AI assistant can stay hidden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a question people ask when they&#8217;re choosing an AI assistant for live calls, and it sounds like a preference question: do I want the desktop app, the web version, or something on my phone? It isn&#8217;t a preference question. For anything that has to stay off a screen share, the architecture decides the outcome before you&#8217;ve opened the app, and two of those three options can&#8217;t do it at all.<\/p>\n<p>I want to lay out why, because the reason is a specific operating system call rather than a design philosophy.<\/p>\n<h2>What a screen share actually transmits<\/h2>\n<p>When you share your screen in Zoom, Google Meet or Teams, the app asks the operating system for a capture stream and gets back frames. It doesn&#8217;t read your disk. It doesn&#8217;t enumerate your processes. It receives pixels that the OS compositor has assembled, and whatever the compositor puts in those frames is what the other person sees.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves one interesting question: can a window ask the compositor to leave it out?<\/p>\n<p>On Windows, yes. <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/win32\/api\/winuser\/nf-winuser-setwindowdisplayaffinity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><code>SetWindowDisplayAffinity<\/code><\/a> with the <code>WDA_EXCLUDEFROMCAPTURE<\/code> flag tells the system to draw a window on the physical display but omit it from capture streams. On macOS the equivalent is <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/appkit\/nswindow\/sharingtype\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><code>NSWindow.sharingType<\/code><\/a> set to none, which <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/screencapturekit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ScreenCaptureKit<\/a> honors. Electron apps reach both through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronjs.org\/docs\/latest\/api\/browser-window\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><code>setContentProtection(true)<\/code><\/a>, which is the call Craqly&#8217;s main process makes when it creates the assistant window.<\/p>\n<p>Both of those APIs are only available to native windows. That&#8217;s the whole story, and everything below follows from it.<\/p>\n<h2>Why a browser tab can&#8217;t be hidden<\/h2>\n<p>A web app isn&#8217;t a window in the sense the operating system means. It&#8217;s content inside Chrome&#8217;s window, and Chrome is the thing being captured. There&#8217;s no permission to request, no setting to toggle, no paid tier that unlocks it. A browser-based assistant can only stay out of sight by living in a window you didn&#8217;t share, which works right up to the moment someone asks you to share your whole screen.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome extensions have the same ceiling for the same reason. They render inside the browser&#8217;s window, so they inherit whatever that window&#8217;s capture status is.<\/p>\n<p>This catches people out most often on Google Meet, because Meet itself runs in a tab. If your assistant is also in Chrome, the assistant and the meeting are living in the same surface you&#8217;ve been asked to present.<\/p>\n<h2>Where a phone actually fits<\/h2>\n<p>A second device sidesteps the capture problem entirely, since nothing on your phone is in your laptop&#8217;s frame buffer. That part is genuinely true, and it&#8217;s why people reach for it.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble is that it moves the problem from the screen to the camera. In a video interview you&#8217;re framed head and shoulders, and looking down at a phone produces exactly the pattern interviewers learn to notice: a pause, a downward glance, then an answer more fluent than the thinking that preceded it. You&#8217;ve defeated the software detection and walked into the human one.<\/p>\n<h2>The three options, honestly<\/h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Approach<\/th>\n<th>Can request capture exclusion<\/th>\n<th>Real weakness<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Native desktop app<\/td>\n<td>Yes, on a supported OS version<\/td>\n<td>Install required; breaks after some OS updates<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Web app or browser extension<\/td>\n<td>No, architecturally<\/td>\n<td>Visible whenever you share the full screen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Second device (phone or tablet)<\/td>\n<td>Not applicable<\/td>\n<td>Eye movement is the giveaway<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>What Craqly does, and what it doesn&#8217;t<\/h2>\n<p>Craqly is a native desktop application for macOS and Windows. There&#8217;s no web version and no mobile app, and that&#8217;s a deliberate consequence of the above rather than a roadmap gap. A browser build could not do the one thing the product exists to do.<\/p>\n<p>It captures system audio through the OS loopback path, so it hears the other side of the call without joining the meeting. Nothing appears in the participant list, because nothing connected. Stealth is on every plan including the free Starter tier, which gives 20 credits a month, where one credit is one minute of live session.<\/p>\n<p>The honest limits are worth stating too. Capture exclusion is a request to the operating system, not a permanent property of the software. Apple has tightened screen recording permissions across several recent macOS releases, and each change has broken window exclusion for some applications until they shipped an update. Windows behavior before Windows 11 is uneven. Anyone promising permanent invisibility is selling something.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why I&#8217;d test rather than trust. Start a solo meeting, join again from your phone or start a local recording, open the assistant, share your <em>entire<\/em> screen because that&#8217;s the harder case, and look at what the second device sees. It takes about six minutes and it tells you more about your specific machine than any product page can, this one included.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cq-cta\">\n<p><strong>Test the architecture claim yourself.<\/strong> The free Starter plan includes 20 credits a month with stealth enabled, which is enough to run the solo-call test above before an interview depends on it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/craqly.com\/download\" class=\"btn\">Download Craqly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n<p class=\"faq-q\">Does Craqly have a web app or a mobile app?<\/p>\n<p class=\"faq-a\">No. Craqly is a native desktop application for macOS and Windows only. Screen-share invisibility requires an operating system call that browser tabs and mobile apps cannot make, so a web or mobile build could not offer the product&#8217;s core feature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"faq-q\">Can a Chrome extension stay hidden during a screen share?<\/p>\n<p class=\"faq-a\">Not if you share your whole screen. Extensions render inside the browser window, and only native OS windows can request exclusion from a capture stream via SetWindowDisplayAffinity on Windows or NSWindow sharingType on macOS. An extension can only avoid being seen by living in a window you did not share.<\/p>\n<p class=\"faq-q\">Is using a phone as a second device safer?<\/p>\n<p class=\"faq-a\">It avoids the screen capture problem, since your phone is not in your laptop&#8217;s frame buffer. But it introduces a visual one. 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