HideMyShare is the closest competitor we have found. Same platform, same Windows version floor, same job, and — read the two homepages side by side — very nearly the same sentence describing it. If you are choosing between us, the differences are real but they are not the ones a feature grid would show you.
We make one of the two, so weigh this accordingly. Every figure below was read from their own pages on 5 September 2026. We have not tested their software and nothing here claims anything about how well it works.
What HideMyShare is
A Windows desktop app for Windows 10 version 2004 and above, hiding chosen windows from screen sharing and recording while they stay visible to you. One-time purchase, no account, no telemetry, everything local.
$59.96, shown against a struck-through $149.90 as a limited-time 60% off. That buys a lifetime licence for one computer, re-bindable if you change machines. Every download starts with a 7-day free trial of all features, with no payment details, and there is a 7-day money-back guarantee after that.
| HideMyShare | Hushglass | |
|---|---|---|
| Lifetime | $59.96 | $39 |
| Computers per licence | 1, re-bindable | 2 |
| Free tier | None | One window, no expiry |
| Trial | 7 days, all features | Free tier instead |
| Interface languages | 20, including RTL Arabic | 4: English, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese |
| IME candidate windows | Hidden automatically | Not handled |
| New windows from a protected app | Automatic, re-attaches after restart | Automatic on Pro, follows a running app |
| Windows floor | 10 v2004+ | 10 v2004+ |
Where they are genuinely ahead
This is the section that matters, so it goes first.
Twenty languages. Full interface in Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian among others, with right-to-left support for Arabic. Hushglass has four: English, German, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, since version 1.0.6. If you want the app in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Russian or Arabic, this is the one that has it.
IME protection. When you type in Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Thai, the input method shows a candidate window — a floating list of the characters you might mean. It leaks what you are typing, and it is not the window you protected. HideMyShare detects and hides those automatically. Nobody else in this category does this, us included.
Whether that decides anything depends on one thing: do you type in those scripts during a shared call? Presenting without typing, or typing in Latin script, never raises a candidate window at all. If you do type in them mid-call it is a serious gap on our side and you should buy theirs. If you do not, it is a feature you would pay $20.96 more for and never see.
That is the whole shape of this comparison, so it is worth putting the rest of the difference next to it: $39 against $59.96, two computers instead of one, and a free tier with no expiry to check it on before paying anything.
Protection re-attaches after a restart. Close a protected app and reopen it, and theirs picks it up again. Ours follows a running application, so a fresh launch is a fresh process and you protect it again — one click, but a click. A real difference, in their favour, and one we can close: the app has a feedback button marked report a problem or suggest something, and what gets asked for gets built ahead of what we would have guessed at.
They name Tencent Meeting, Feishu/Lark and DingTalk alongside Zoom, Teams and Meet. We name only what we have watched from the viewer’s side, which is a difference in what we are willing to claim rather than a known difference in what works — see the section below.
They have a trial with a defined end. Seven days, every feature, no card. Whether that beats a free tier with no expiry depends on you: a trial shows you everything and then stops, a free tier shows you one window and never does.
Where we think we are ahead
Price, and the shape of it. $39 once against $59.96 once. Also worth noticing: their $59.96 is presented as 60% off a $149.90 list price that has, as far as we can tell, never been the asking price. Ours is $39 because that is what it costs.
Two computers on one licence, against their one. If you have a work machine and a personal one, that is the difference between one purchase and two.
A free tier with no clock on it. One window, protected for as long as you like, no account and no card. Theirs is a seven-day trial and then nothing. If the private thing is a single chat window — which for most people it is — you may never need to pay us at all, and we would rather say that than sell you something you do not need.
Automatic protection of new windows, which we both have. Protect any window on Pro and every new window from that application is covered within about a second, with no rules to write. We are not behind here; the difference is the restart case above, not the feature.
Viewers see a labelled cover, not a gap. An opaque screen reading Private content protected, so the people on the call can tell something is deliberately private rather than wondering what happened. That makes Hushglass a poor tool for deceiving anyone, which we consider a feature. Not everyone will agree, and if you would rather viewers saw nothing at all, say so — it is a real preference and we have made the opposite choice on purpose.
On the meeting apps we have not tested
Their list includes three we cannot match on paper: Tencent Meeting, Feishu/Lark and DingTalk.
Here is the honest position. Hushglass does not work per application. It works at the Windows capture layer — a flag that tells Windows itself to leave a window out of anything capturing the screen — so it has no idea which meeting app is running and no code that treats one differently from another. Anything using standard Windows screen capture should therefore see the protection, including those three.
That is a reason to expect it to work. It is not evidence that it does, and our claims rules do not let us list an app we have not watched from the viewer’s side. So: the free tier costs nothing, it needs no account, and if you try it on one of those apps we would genuinely like to know what you saw. Write to hello@hushglass.com. What gets reported gets tested, and what passes gets named on the homepage.
On the language gap, plainly
We are not going to argue you out of wanting your own language. If the interface being in Chinese or Japanese matters to you, that is a fair reason to buy theirs today.
What we would say is that this particular app is a short list of the windows you already have open, identified by their own titles, and one button that says Protect. You recognise your own window titles in whatever language they are already in. It is closer to language-independent than most software, which is why we have got this far without translating it — not because we think translation does not matter. It is planned.
What we would rather you knew before paying us
- Our installer is not code-signed yet, so your browser will probably warn you about the download. We publish the SHA-256 and the exact byte count on the download page so you can check the file yourself, and the reasoning is written up here. Their FAQ answers the same question about their installer. Ours has a way around it: the same app is on the Microsoft Store, free. A Store install is signed by Microsoft, so neither your browser nor Windows warns you on the way in.
- No trial, because there is a free tier instead. If one window is all you need, do not pay us.
- Protection requires sharing your entire screen. Share the protected app as a single window and it will be visible. This is true of both products.
- Four interface languages, against their twenty.
The short version
If you type in Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Thai, or you want the interface in a language we do not have (ours are English, German, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese), buy theirs. Those are real gaps on our side and no amount of price difference closes them.
If you want two computers on one licence, a free tier with no countdown, or simply the lower price, we are $39 against $59.96 and you can find out for nothing before deciding.
Start on the free tier. If it turns out you need more than one window protected, Pro is there. If it does not, keep it.
Frequently asked questions
Does Hushglass work with Tencent Meeting, Feishu or DingTalk?
We have not tested them, so we will not list them. What we can tell you is the mechanism: Hushglass works at the Windows capture layer rather than per application, so it does not know or care which meeting app is running — anything using standard Windows screen capture should see the protection. That is a reason to expect it to work, not evidence that it does. Try it on the free tier and tell us what you see at hello@hushglass.com. What gets reported gets tested, and what passes gets named.
Is Hushglass available in Chinese, Japanese or other languages?
Not in Chinese or Japanese. Since version 1.0.6 the interface is in English, German, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, and it follows your Windows language; any other language gets the English. The whole app is a list of your open windows and a Protect button, which is close to language-independent: you recognise your own window titles, and there is one thing to click. If you need menus in Chinese, Japanese or Korean, or IME candidate-window handling, HideMyShare covers that and we do not.
Does Hushglass protect new windows automatically, or only the one I pick?
Automatically, on Pro. Protect any window and every new window from that same application is picked up within about a second — chat pop-outs, new documents, dialogs — with no rules to configure. On Free you protect one window and that is the one that is protected. The honest limit is that this follows a running application: close it and reopen it and you protect it again, because it is a new process.
Why is Hushglass cheaper, and should that worry me?
We are newer, we have fewer customers and we have not localised. Price is a poor signal of trustworthiness in either direction, so judge on things you can check instead: whether a product tells you what it cannot do, whether it publishes a checksum you can verify against the file you downloaded, and whether it explains its mechanism rather than calling it magic. We try to do all three, and our download page says plainly that the installer is not signed, and offers a Microsoft-signed Store build for anyone who would rather not deal with that.