Ghost Mode Explained: How Glimp Stays Invisible During Screen Share
Ghost Mode is the feature that makes Glimp different from every other interview tool. Here's what it does, what it's invisible to, and how to use it correctly.
What Is Ghost Mode?
Ghost Mode is Glimp's stealth feature. When active, the Glimp overlay — the floating window that displays your AI responses and live transcript — becomes completely invisible to screen sharing software, recording tools, and screenshots taken by other applications.
You can see it on your screen. Your interviewer cannot. It does not appear in their shared view, in any recording, or in any screen capture tool running on your machine.
What It's Invisible To
The Stealth Toggle
Ghost Mode is controlled by the Stealth toggle — visible on both the dashboard and the overlay itself. When active it shows STEALTH in green. When disabled it switches to VISIBLE in red.
Glimp is designed so that Ghost Mode is on by default every time you launch. If you try to turn it off, a confirmation modal appears warning you that the overlay will become visible to screen sharing. This intentional friction exists to prevent accidental exposure — you won't disable it without knowing exactly what you're doing.
The keyboard shortcut to toggle stealth is Ctrl+Shift+H by default, and it can be rebound in Settings → Global Shortcuts.
Moving the Overlay While in Ghost Mode
Ghost Mode doesn't restrict how you use the overlay. You can still drag it by the top bar to reposition it, or use Ctrl+Alt+Arrow keys to nudge it 30px at a time in any direction. Position it wherever feels natural — near your camera, beside your IDE, or on a secondary monitor.
A secondary monitor is particularly effective: the overlay lives entirely on your second screen, in full view for you, and completely absent from the screen share your interviewer sees.
Appearance Settings in Ghost Mode
You can adjust how the overlay looks without affecting stealth. From the overlay's settings icon:
- •Opacity — reduce from 100% to make it more transparent so it blends into your workspace
- •Background fill — control how solid the background appears, useful if you want to see through it slightly
- •Dark / Light mode — match your desktop theme
These changes only affect how the overlay looks to you. They have no effect on what screen sharing software captures — which is nothing.
Why This Changes the Game
Before Glimp, your options during a remote interview were limited to what you could memorise or discreetly glance at on a separate device. Ghost Mode removes that constraint entirely. A full AI assistant — with your resume, your context, your customised persona — sits right on your screen without anyone knowing it's there.
Whether you're walking through a system design question, handling a live coding challenge, or navigating a difficult HR round, you have a silent partner that can see and hear everything the interviewer is showing you — and respond instantly.