Ofradr markets itself on “STEALTH · INVISIBLE · PRIVACY”. Before you install it, read what its own licence agreement says it does.
Everything quoted below is from Ofradr’s own published End User Licence Agreement and pricing page, checked on 29 July 2026. Article numbers are theirs. Read their terms yourself — do not take our word for it.
It records what you type and where you click. Article 1.1 describes “low-level operating system hooks (WH_KEYBOARD_LL, WH_MOUSE_LL) to intercept and analyze high-frequency human-interface device signal vectors”.
It sends your screen to their servers, and you cannot turn that off. Article 1.2 describes “asynchronous serialization and encrypted transmission of visual display buffers (Screen Snapshots/Frame Data)”, and states this “cannot be disabled without ceasing use of the Software”.
They acknowledge what can end up in that data. Article 3.1: “credentials, banking identifiers, government ID numbers, or private correspondence—may be incidentally retained”.
They take ownership of it. Article 8.1 grants them a “perpetual, exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish… distribute, and sell said interaction data”. Article 8.2 covers using it for “pre-training, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning (RLHF)” of AI models.
And they reserve the right to sell it on. Article 8.3: the right to “sell, lease, or license bulk aggregation of such Telemetry and Data Sets to third-party entities, including but not limited to AI research laboratories, technology conglomerates, and data brokers”.
They also expect your antivirus to object. Article 5.1 anticipates the software will “trigger heuristic ‘False Positive’ flags in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) or Anti-Virus solutions”.
In July 2026 Ofradr’s developer launched a separate AI service, BrokenGPT, and offered Ofradr’s top Ultra tier free to anyone who connects a BrokenGPT API key. Taking that offer routes your screen captures and questions through that service, which describes itself as “a private mixture of open-source models” and states that “No gateway keyword filter blocks prompts.”
Its privacy policy, as published, is an unfinished template. It still contains the instructions to whoever was meant to complete it: “This draft describes the application’s intended data flow. Replace company identity, contacts, subprocessors, jurisdictions, and retention periods before launch.” It names no company, no jurisdiction, and no retention period, and elsewhere reads “Define retention for deleted chats, backups, usage ledgers, fraud evidence, and legal holds.” Checked 29 July 2026 — read it yourself before connecting anything to it.
Your key, your account, direct to the provider. GhostNote does not resell AI access. You connect your own Anthropic, OpenAI or Google key and your questions go to that provider under your own account — not through us.
Or nothing leaves your machine at all. With Ollama, GhostNote runs a local model on your own hardware. No key, no network request, no server of ours involved.
We do not capture keystrokes or mouse input. There is no input-hooking anywhere in GhostNote. It reads what is on screen only when you press the screenshot or Inspect hotkey, and it goes to your chosen AI provider.
We claim no rights over anything you do. Our privacy policy is deliberately unglamorous: we hold your account, and your API keys if you choose to sync them — and it says plainly that those are stored without additional encryption at rest, protected by row-level security. You can leave cloud sync off entirely and keep your key on your own machine.
Ordinary install. GhostNote for macOS is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens like any other app — no security warning, no exclusion to add, nothing to switch off. Uninstalling is dragging it to the Trash. Ofradr’s published install is a single command that, by its own description, “Adds Windows Defender exclusion”, and its FAQ tells users to disable their browser’s Safe Browsing to get the download through. Its own Article 5.1 anticipates the antivirus objection.
Updates are verified before they are installed. GhostNote checks each update against a published checksum and confirms it carries our Developer ID signature before replacing anything. An update we did not sign is refused outright.
Ofradr meters its paid tiers by time. Pro $30/mo is 90 minutes of Browser Mode and 100 chat messages per session; Elite $60/mo is 3 hours with unlimited messages; only Ultra at $120/mo removes the limits. The free Community tier is 15-minute sessions with 3 messages.
Ghost Pro is $11.99/mo with no minute cap and no message cap, or $250 once as Ghost Lifetime. The free tier is 15 minutes every month with every feature working.
| GhostNote | Ofradr | |
|---|---|---|
| Screen data sent to the vendor | No | Yes — cannot be disabled (Art. 1.2) |
| Keyboard / mouse input hooks | No | Yes (Art. 1.1) |
| Vendor may sell your data | No | Reserved right, incl. data brokers (Art. 8.3) |
| Can run with zero network access | Yes, via Ollama | Local models offered |
| Unlimited usage | $11.99/mo | $120/mo |
| One-time option | $250 lifetime | — |
| macOS | Yes | Windows only |
| Signed & notarized by Apple | Yes | Install adds a Defender exclusion |
| Updates verified before install | Checksum + our signature | — |
| Models named publicly | All 47 | Not enumerated |
| Autonomous task agent | No | Yes |
A comparison that only flatters us is worth nothing, so:
If those matter more to you than the licence terms above, they are a real product and you should evaluate them on their merits.
Decide what you are paying with. Ofradr costs money and, by its own licence, a continuous feed of your screen and input that it may sell on. GhostNote costs $11.99 and asks you to plug in your own AI key — or none at all, if you run it offline.
Free plan, no card required. 15 minutes every month with everything working — enough to decide for yourself.