Fade scans your calendar, monitors meeting participants, and detects local recording apps — three layers of protection that catch AI bots before, during, and after your meetings. Object with one click.
Fade catches AI bots at every stage — from the calendar invite to the live call to the stealth recorder running in the background.
Know before you join.
Fade scans your calendar for AI bot attendee emails — the ones services like Otter, Fireflies, and Gong sneak into meeting invites. Get alerted before you even open the call.
Real-time protection.
Reads Zoom, Teams, and Meet participant lists via the Accessibility API. Detects bots that have joined your live call — even if they joined silently.
Nothing hides.
Finds stealth recorders like Granola and Cluely running on your Mac. These apps capture audio locally without joining your meeting — invisible to other participants.
Detects active "Recording", "AI Companion", "Copilot", and "Gemini" indicators across Zoom, Teams, and Meet.
One click to assert your legal rights. Fade copies a non-consent statement and logs everything with timestamps for legal proof.
I do not consent to AI recording or transcription of this conversation pursuant to California Penal Code Section 632.
Every detection and objection is logged with precise timestamps, bot names, and detection sources. Exportable for legal proceedings.
Your objection is recorded the moment it happens. Date, time, meeting context, and which bots were present — all preserved.
Establishes documented non-consent under two-party consent laws. Critical for attorneys, executives, and compliance teams.
Fade runs silently in your menu bar. Minimal configuration, maximum protection.
Download the DMG. Drag to Applications. Done in 30 seconds. No account, no sign-up, no email.
Calendar access to scan for bots. Accessibility to read participant lists. Both optional but recommended for full protection.
Sits silently in your menu bar. Scans calendar events, monitors meeting participants, and checks running processes — all locally.
The moment a bot is detected, you get notified. One click copies your non-consent statement and logs the evidence. Done.
Calendar bots, meeting participants, recording indicators, and local processes — Fade knows them all.
AI services that add bot email addresses to your calendar invites before the meeting starts.
Bots that join your Zoom, Teams, or Meet calls as participants. Detected in real-time via participant list monitoring.
Active recording and AI assistant indicators surfaced by Zoom, Teams, and Meet during live calls.
Stealth apps that capture system audio directly on your Mac. No bot visible in the meeting — completely invisible to others.
Fade was designed from day one to be the privacy tool that doesn't require you to trust it.
Everything happens on your Mac. Calendar data, participant lists, process scans — nothing ever touches a server. Fully air-gappable.
Fade makes zero outbound connections. No analytics, no telemetry, no update pings. Verify it yourself with Little Snitch or Wireshark.
Your calendar is scanned on-device. Calendar event content is processed in memory only. Detection logs are stored locally on your device for your records.
No email, no sign-up, no login. Download, install, run. Your identity is irrelevant to Fade — by design.
Fade never touches your microphone. It detects bots through signatures and UI inspection, not audio analysis.
We encourage security professionals to inspect Fade's behavior. You'll find exactly zero network connections and zero data exfiltration.
Protect attorney-client privilege. Know immediately if an AI bot is transcribing a confidential client call. Log your objection for the record.
Maintain audit trails and ensure recording consent policies are followed. Export timestamped evidence logs for governance.
Board discussions, M&A conversations, strategy sessions — ensure sensitive topics stay in the room. Get warned before you even join.
Anyone who believes meeting participants deserve to know when AI is listening and recording. Take back informed consent.
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No. Never. Fade is a detector, not a recorder. It never accesses your microphone, never captures audio, never records screen content. It reads calendar data, participant lists, and process names — that's it. It exists to protect your privacy, not compromise it.
Calendar access allows Fade to scan upcoming meeting invites for bot attendee emails. Accessibility access lets Fade read Zoom/Teams/Meet participant lists to detect bots in real-time. Both are optional — local process detection works with zero permissions.
Fade detects bots that join your meetings, wherever they come from. If someone on the call has Otter or Fireflies running and it adds a bot to the meeting, Fade sees it in the participant list. For local recorders on other people's machines (like Granola running on a coworker's Mac), no tool can detect that — and we're honest about it.
Your calendar data never leaves your device. Fade reads events locally through macOS Calendar APIs, checks attendee emails against its bot database, and discards the data. Nothing is stored beyond what you see in the app. Nothing is ever transmitted.
Yes. Local process detection works with zero permissions — it reads the same process list visible in Activity Monitor. Granting Calendar and Accessibility permissions unlocks the calendar scanning and meeting participant layers, but they're optional. You choose how much protection you want.
Yes, all three. Fade monitors participant lists across Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet. Calendar scanning works with any calendar that syncs to macOS Calendar (Google, Outlook, iCloud). Process detection works regardless of which meeting platform you use.
When Fade detects a bot, you can click "Object" to copy a legal non-consent statement to your clipboard (ready to paste into the meeting chat). Simultaneously, Fade logs the objection with the exact timestamp, which bots were detected, and the detection source. This creates a documented evidence trail for legal proceedings under two-party consent laws.
Fade requires macOS 13 (Ventura) or later. It's a universal binary that runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
Three layers of detection. One-click objection. Zero compromises on privacy.
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