Shhh is a native macOS video player with privacy mode enabled by default. Open any file β nothing about it is recorded, anywhere. Powered by the mpv engine.
Available on macOS 11 or later.
Privacy mode is enabled the moment Shhh launches for the first time. No playback history. No resume positions. No recent-documents list. No thumbnail cache. No telemetry. Nothing on disk, nothing in UserDefaults, nothing leaked through plugins. Toggle it off via β§βP if you want the classic player behavior back; toggle it on whenever you need silence.
Every feature that touches your watch history is short-circuited when privacy mode is on
Enabled at first launch. One menu item (β§βP) toggles it; a checkmark always tells you the current state.
The history database is never written to. Nothing to clean up later β there's nothing there.
Shhh makes no analytics calls, no crash reports, no update pings to third-party servers.
Built on the mpv engine β handles virtually every video and audio format you'll ever throw at it.
Hardware-accelerated decoding, Retina rendering, native macOS keyboard and trackpad gestures.
No cloud. No accounts. Your files never leave your Mac. mpv's watch-later files are disabled in privacy mode.
Three guarantees, enforced in code
Privacy mode is on by default. The welcome window shows no "last played" card and no recents list.
Opening a file writes nothing to history, recent items, watch-later, or thumbnail cache.
Quitting Shhh leaves no breadcrumbs behind. mpv's save-position-on-quit is forced off.
Get Shhh from the Mac App Store and stop wondering what your video player remembers about you.
Download on the App Store