Privacy & transparency

Monitoring software is usually sold to the manager and hidden from everyone else. This page is the opposite. It is the one to send to the team you are asking to install it. What is collected and how it is stored is set out in data security.

No stealth mode

scrin.io cannot be run as spyware, because the switch was never built. Your team starts and stops tracking themselves, from an app on their own computer, and it is visible the whole time it runs.

Every screenshot is announced

A notification appears near the system tray each time a capture is taken. It is on by default. A screenshot nobody knew about is worth less as evidence, and it costs far more in trust than it can ever return.

No keylogging

Activity level records that keyboard or mouse input happened in a ten-second window. What was typed is not captured, not stored, and not available to anyone. There is no keystroke log in the product to read back.

Your team can see the rules that apply to them

The desktop app shows each person their own settings: how many screenshots an hour, whether app tracking is on, whether activity level is measured, the auto-pause delay, and any weekly limit. Nobody has to take a manager’s word for what is being collected.

And their own data

Everyone sees their own timeline, their own screenshots and their own reports, and can delete any data they submitted. The record a manager reads is the record they read.

Screenshots can be blurred

Turn blurring on for the team or for one person. Screenshots then show that work was happening and what kind of screen it was, without the content being readable. Enough for a timesheet to stand up; not enough to read someone’s messages.

Idle time is not billed as work

Tracking pauses itself when nobody is at the keyboard, and the gap is offered back as a question instead of being counted silently. The protection runs both ways: nobody is charged for someone’s lunch, and nobody is recorded working through it.

Two-factor sign-in

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is available, including passkeys and hardware security keys (FIDO2). A timeline of somebody’s working day should not be behind a single password.