What KeptInFlow watches

Last updated: July 25, 2026

KeptInFlow does a lot, and some of it involves reading your screen, your microphone, or your clipboard. Software that can do those things should say exactly when it does them, so here is the whole list: every feature that reads anything, what it reads, whether it leaves this PC, and whether it is switched on the day you install.

Every row can be turned off in Settings. Nothing here is required for the rest of the app to work.

Meetings and audio

Feature	What it reads	Leaves your PC	On install
Meeting recording	Your microphone and the audio your speakers are playing, while a recording is running and not before	No, if you use the on-device transcription models	You start it
Auto-record	Which application is currently using your microphone, so it can offer to record a call. Not the audio itself	No	Off
Transcription and speaker labels	The recording you just made	No, with the free downloaded models. Cloud transcription is a choice you make per engine	Runs after a recording
Speaker names	The participant names your meeting app is showing on screen (Zoom, Teams, Google Meet), while a recording is running, so the transcript can say who spoke instead of "Speaker 2". Names only. Your voice is never turned into a voiceprint	No, unless you ask the AI to work out the remaining names	Runs while you record
Meeting summary and Ask	The transcript of the meeting you opened	Only when you click it, and then to the AI provider whose key you added	You click it
Dictation	Your microphone while you hold the dictation key	No audio, with the on-device model. The cleanup pass, on by default, sends the finished text to your AI provider; switch cleanup off and nothing leaves	Key-triggered

Screen and capture

Feature	What it reads	Leaves your PC	On install
Snip and OCR	The region you drag, at the moment you drag it	No. Text extraction runs on this machine	You trigger it
Capture Library	The snips you chose to keep, indexed so you can search them by their words	No	Stores what you snip
Screen Memory	A periodic screenshot of your active monitor, read on-device so you can search and scrub back through your day	No, unless you ask a question about it	Off
Screen recording	The region or window you picked, while recording	No	You start it
Guides (step recording)	A screenshot at each click, while a guide recording is running	No	You start it
Mouse gesture snip	Mouse buttons, to catch the drag gesture that starts a snip	No	Off

Typing and clipboard

Feature	What it reads	Leaves your PC	On install
Clipboard history	Everything you copy, anywhere, checked a few times a second so it can be kept as a short local history you cycle back through. Copies that password managers mark as sensitive are skipped	No	On
Clean paste	The clipboard, at the moment you press the paste shortcut	No. It is plain text tidying, with no AI and no network	On
Text expansion	The short abbreviation you type, matched against your own list	No, for an ordinary snippet. A snippet you marked as an AI one holds a prompt, so typing it does call your provider	On
Inline AI, edit by meaning, rewrite	The text you typed between the markers, or the text you selected	Yes, when you fire the trigger, to your AI provider	Trigger-only
AutoCorrect	The word you just finished typing, checked against a list of about 2,800 common misspellings that ships inside the app	No. There is no AI and no network in this one at all	Off
Fix my last sentence	The sentence you just typed, or the text you selected	Yes, when you press the shortcut, to your AI provider	Key-triggered

The helpers that appear on their own

Three features show a small offer without being asked. They are the only parts of KeptInFlow that speak first, so they get their own section.

Feature	What it reads	Leaves your PC	On install
Verification code catcher	The clipboard when you focus a code box. If there is no code there, the text of your other open windows through the Windows accessibility interface (which is how it finds a code in a window your browser is covering), plus on-device readings of your monitors, about every four seconds until it finds something, for the first twenty seconds only. Nothing is read until you click into a code field, and it all stops within about ninety seconds	No	On
Smart paste offer	The labels of the fields in the form you just opened, through the Windows accessibility interface. It offers to fill them; it cannot fill anything on its own	Only if you accept the offer	On
Fetch	The label of the single field you clicked into, so it can offer something you were just looking at. What it offers comes from your clipboard history and, if Screen Memory is on, its recent frames. It opens no other window	No	On

Things KeptInFlow does not do

No account. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to sign in to.
No analytics, no usage tracking, no ad tracking, no profile of you anywhere.
No keylogging. KeptInFlow does use a Windows keyboard hook, because that is how a global shortcut works, but it is watching for its own shortcuts. What you type is not recorded or stored.
Your API keys stay in the Windows credential store and are read only by the app's native code. They are never sent to us.
Nothing you capture, record, or type is sold, shared, or used to train anything.

The one exception

If you use the free starter AI actions or the optional AI Included plan, those particular requests pass through a relay we run, because they use our API key rather than yours. Detected personal details are masked on that path whatever your settings say, and we do not store the content of those requests. Add your own key and the relay leaves the picture entirely. The privacy policy covers this in full.

Found something missing?

If a feature reads something and it is not on this page, that is a bug in the page and worth telling us about. Email johnwhitworth@gmail.com.