# PrivacyToggle **Kill your microphone and camera with one click or one shortcut, from the Windows tray.**   [](https://github.com/azahinhasan/Privacy-Toggle/releases/latest) [](LICENSE) | | Live | Off | None found | Shortcut(Default) | |---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| | 🎙️ **Microphone** | | | | `Ctrl+Alt+M` | | 📷 **Camera** | | | | `Ctrl+Alt+V` |

Features

• System-wide mic mute. No app (Zoom, Discord, Teams, browsers, OBS…) gets any audio while muted.
• Real camera off. Disables the webcam in Windows, like Device Manager does. Apps lose the picture at once and can't reopen it. If a program won't let go, PrivacyToggle tells you which one and asks before closing it.
• Toggle or push-to-talk for the mic, with global shortcuts that work even in fullscreen apps.
• Enforce off. Re-mutes a mic or re-disables a camera that something else turns back on, including headset buttons and newly plugged-in devices.
• Per-device control. Target all mics/cameras, or only the ones you pick.
• Activity monitor. See which apps are using the camera or microphone right now, and a timeline (1 hour to 7 days) of every app that used them. Time while a device is muted or off isn't counted. History stays on your PC in %AppData%\PrivacyToggle\usage.json.
• Alerts, per device. Windows notifications and on-screen MIC OFF / CAM OFF badges (clicks pass through them), set separately for the mic and the camera, each badge in its own screen corner.
• Light and dark themes, or follow Windows. Click sounds can be turned off.
• In-app updates. Settings → About checks GitHub for a new release, then downloads, verifies and installs it.

Install

Download PrivacyToggle-Setup-<version>.exe from the latest release and run it. Settings opens when setup finishes.

[!NOTE]
Camera control needs the small PrivacyToggle Helper service, which the installer sets up (one admin prompt). The tray app itself never runs as admin; mic control works without the service.

Usage

• Left-click a tray icon to switch it. Right-click for both controls, Settings, Start with Windows and Exit.
• Settings pages:
• Overview: both devices at a glance.
• Activity: live use and history.
• Microphone / Camera: mode, devices, start state, tray icon and alerts for each device.
• Shortcuts: change the global hotkeys.
• General: startup, appearance and sound.
• About: version and updates.
• Changes save instantly to %AppData%\PrivacyToggle\settings.json.
• Launching the app again opens Settings of the running copy. PrivacyToggle.exe --exit closes it.

🛠️ Build

Requires the .NET 8 SDK.

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File build.ps1   # release build + installer
dotnet run --project src/PrivacyToggle               # dev run

• publish\PrivacyToggle.exe: self-contained single file, no .NET install needed.
• installer\Output\PrivacyToggle-Setup-<version>.exe: built if Inno Setup 6 is installed. Installs the helper service, offers Start with Windows, and the uninstaller turns cameras back on and removes everything.
• The version comes from <Version> in src\PrivacyToggle\PrivacyToggle.csproj; build.ps1 passes it to the installer.
• Icons (tray, app and the images in docs\) are generated by tools\make-icons.ps1.

License

MIT © azahinhasan