Per-Application Stream Privacy Manager for Windows
Hide private applications (Discord, WhatsApp, Spotify, Chrome, Banking, IDEs) from your live streams, screen shares, and recordings with a single toggle while keeping them 100% visible on your monitor.
| Traditional Screen Sharing | With StreamShield 🛡️ |
|---|---|
| ❌ Sharing your entire screen accidentally leaks private DMs, Discord servers, Spotify playlists, credentials, and browsing tabs. | ✅ Toggle any app in StreamShield. It vanishes into transparent or black space on stream while remaining completely visible to you. |
| ❌ Sharing individual windows prevents you from multitasking or showing other apps seamlessly. | ✅ Share your entire display with zero fear of accidental leakages. |
| ❌ Bulky OBS plugins require complex setup and affect broadcast performance. | ✅ 100% Standalone & Driverless. Works natively across Discord, OBS Studio, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, NVIDIA ShadowPlay, and GeForce Experience. |
- 🎮 Smart Capture Compatibility Engine:
- Invisible / Transparent Mode (
WDA_EXCLUDEFROMCAPTURE): Best for OBS Studio, Discord Screen Share, Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet. Windows completely disappear from the stream; viewers see whatever is behind the window. - Black Screen Mask Mode (
WDA_MONITOR): Best for NVIDIA ShadowPlay, GeForce Experience, and NVIDIA App. Renders private windows as solid black rectangles, completely eliminating "A protected app is preventing screen recording" DRM recording pauses. - Real-Time Capture Tool Detection: Automatically detects running capture software (NVIDIA, OBS, Discord) and suggests the optimal shield mode.
- Invisible / Transparent Mode (
- ⚡ Hardware Multiplane Overlay (MPO) Optimization: Prevents hardware GPU overlay plane leakage so that hardware-accelerated desktop captures and instant replays cleanly respect window privacy masks.
- 🔒 Zero-Latency Hardware Exclusion: Leverages the Windows Desktop Window Manager (
DWM) compositing pipeline natively. - 🚀 100% Standalone & Portable: Single ~3.1 MB executable. No installation required, zero background drivers, zero bloat.
- ⚙️ Comprehensive Settings Subsystem: Windows Startup autostart, minimize to tray, customizable scan polling intervals (2s to 10s), process PID badges, and batch confirmation dialogs.
- 🎨 3 Curated Theme Presets:
- 🌌 Cyberpunk Glow: Electric cyan & hot pink neon with ambient backdrop glows.
- 💬 Discord Dark: Discord-native dark palette with Emerald active accents.
- ☀️ Clean White: Crisp, high-contrast modern slate & indigo light theme.
- 🔄 Autonomous Background Watchdog: Automatically detects and re-shields private applications when they restart or open new secondary windows.
- ⚡ Anti-Sleep & Tray Throttling Protection: Native Windows power management prevents background thread suspension when docked to the system tray.
- 🔍 Live Process Search & Filtering: Instant search across running processes, window titles, and PIDs.
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ StreamShield GUI │
│ (React 18 + TypeScript + Vite) │
└──────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┘
│ Tauri IPC Invocation
┌──────────────────────────▼──────────────────────────────┐
│ Rust Core Engine │
│ • Enumerates visible windows & extracts native icons │
│ • Remote ASLR DLL Injector (shield_dll.dll) │
│ • Capture environment detection & MPO optimizer │
│ • Background watchdog & Power state controller │
└──────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┘
│ Injects into Target Process
┌──────────────────────────▼──────────────────────────────┐
│ Windows DWM Compositor │
│ SetWindowDisplayAffinity(AffinityMode) │
└──────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┘
┌─────────────┴─────────────┐
│ │
[Your Physical Monitor] [Capture Buffer / Stream Feed]
100% VISIBLE & LIVE 100% EXCLUDED / MASKED
- StreamShield identifies the 64-bit target process and dynamically injects
shield_dll.dllvia remote thread execution with full 64-bit ASLR address resolution. - The injected hook executes
SetWindowDisplayAffinity(hwnd, AffinityMode)directly inside the target window's process context. - It immediately invalidates the DWM visual surface cache (
SWP_FRAMECHANGED&RedrawWindow), forcing the Windows compositor to exclude or mask the window from all capture streams while keeping it live on your display.
Download streamshield.exe from the Latest Releases page.
- No installation needed - simply double-click and run!
Download StreamShield_0.2.0_x64-setup.exe for a standard Windows installation with Desktop and Start Menu shortcuts, or StreamShield_0.2.0_x64_en-US.msi for enterprise deployment.
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit, Version 2004 / Build 19041 or newer) or Windows 11 (All versions).
- Architecture:
x86_64(64-bit). - Permissions: Administrator privileges (StreamShield automatically requests standard UAC elevation on startup to interact with elevated target processes).
# 1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/raghavatgit/StreamShield.git
cd StreamShield
# 2. Install frontend dependencies
cd tauri-app
npm install
# 3. Build standalone production binary
npx tauri buildThe optimized production binaries and installers will be generated at:
target/release/streamshield.exe
target/release/bundle/nsis/StreamShield_0.2.0_x64-setup.exe
target/release/bundle/msi/StreamShield_0.2.0_x64_en-US.msi
Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome! Feel free to check the issues page.
- Fork the Project
- Create your Feature Branch (
git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature) - Commit your Changes (
git commit -m 'feat: add some amazing feature') - Push to the Branch (
git push origin feature/AmazingFeature) - Open a Pull Request
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.
Built with ❤️ by Raghav Goyal for streamers, developers, and privacy enthusiasts.