Questions about Hintglass

Yes. Next question. Interviews reward whoever memorised the most answers, and now that’s you.

It transcribes both sides of your video interview on your Mac, and when you hold right ⌥ (Right Option) while the interviewer finishes a question, a short answer appears in a panel just below your notch. Two more shortcuts answer with code for the window in front of you, or with one sourced sentence from a web search.

No. Hintglass is invisible on screen share and in screenshots. They see your screen, never your answers.

From your own profile, through the AI provider you connect: what you have done comes only from your profile, search answers also use the web, and code answers read your screen. Hintglass never claims experience your profile doesn’t hold, so every story comes from your own resume and holds up when the follow-up digs deeper.

Yes. Hintglass works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and any meeting app on your Mac: pick the one your interview runs in under Settings → Meeting app, and for Google Meet, pick the browser it runs in.

That depends on where you and the interviewer are: laws on recording and transcribing conversations differ, and some require everyone’s consent. Hintglass transcribes the call on your Mac and saves no audio, and following those laws is up to you, as the Terms say.

No. Both sides of the call are transcribed on your Mac. When you ask, the conversation’s transcript so far, from both sides, and your profile go to your AI provider; ⌥⌘C (Option-Command-C) adds a screenshot of the window in front of you, and ⌥⌘F (Option-Command-F) sends the interviewer’s words to the search service you chose. On Anthropic, Ollama Cloud and Ollama on your Mac, Hintglass also sends a warm-up in the background, even if you never ask: your profile, and on Ollama the conversation’s transcript so far, within a session’s first minute and then once or twice a minute, so the next answer starts faster.

Never your audio: both sides of the call are transcribed on your Mac. When you ask, the conversation’s transcript so far, from both sides, and your profile go to your AI provider; ⌥⌘C adds a screenshot of the window in front of you, and ⌥⌘F sends the interviewer’s words to the search service you chose, and up to three of its results to your provider. On Anthropic, Ollama Cloud and Ollama on your Mac, Hintglass also sends a warm-up in the background, even if you never ask: your profile, and on Ollama the conversation’s transcript so far, within a session’s first minute and then once or twice a minute, so the next answer starts faster. Generating a profile sends your resume’s and the job posting’s text to your provider once. We receive none of it; the Privacy policy lists the little we do receive.

In your login Keychain, on your Mac. Hintglass sends each key only to its own host, and we never receive it.

Only if you turn on Save transcript in Settings → Saved sessions, which is off by default. It then writes each answered question and its answer, with the screenshots and search sources they used, to a folder on your Mac, and Delete all saved sessions… removes them. Audio is never saved.

Tested on Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter and Ollama Cloud. Built to support them all. You bring your own key and pay the provider for what you use. Settings → Connection also has Ollama on your Mac, Mistral, DeepSeek, Groq and xAI built in, and Other for any host; Test connection checks each with your key.

A Mac with macOS 27 on Apple silicon: Apple’s list of Macs that can run macOS 27 starts with the 2020 M1 models. You also need an API key for the AI provider you choose, unless you run Ollama on your Mac, and the speech model for your interview language, which Hintglass installs from Settings.

No. With a notch, the panel hangs just below it, right under the camera; without one, it sits just below the menu bar, at the top centre of your main display.

Each language Apple’s on-device speech recognition has a model for on your Mac: Settings → Interview language lists them, and both sides of the call are transcribed in the one you choose.

Use them. With headphones, your microphone hears only you, so Hintglass always knows which words are yours and which are the interviewer’s.

Hintglass is launching soon: at launch, you download it from this site. Join the waitlist for one email the day it lands.

At launch, it costs USD 50 per month, plus tax where it applies, as one plan. You also pay your AI provider for what you use.

At launch, yes: one session of 20 minutes, the first that runs without a licence, with nothing to pay and no account to create.

Yes: at launch, you cancel with Manage subscription in Settings → Licence, and Hintglass keeps working until the end of the month you have paid for.

At launch, customers in the EU and the UK get a full refund if they ask within 14 days of their first payment. Elsewhere, payments and part periods aren’t refunded, except where the law requires a refund.