Effect.In a live coding interview the candidate answers every question fluently. The shared screen shows nothing but their editor. Nothing looks wrong.
Method.An AI assistant sits in a window the screen share can't see, summoned by a hotkey the interview never receives. UnGhosted reads the tells the trick leaves behind and shows them to the interviewer as plain signals, never a verdict.
Both apps ship together, free while UnGhosted is in early access.
AI didn't just learn to write. It learned to sit in the room. Each trick below hides from the interviewer's eyes, and each one still leaves a trace on the candidate's machine. UnGhosted reads the trace and writes it down in plain language.
Effect.The interviewer watches the shared screen. It shows the editor and nothing else.
Method.The assistant's window sets one Windows display-affinity flag, WDA_EXCLUDEFROMCAPTURE, and is left out of every screen share and recording.
The tell.The desktop app checks every window for that flag and names the one that's hiding. The browser version can't see it, so use the desktop app when you can.
Effect.The candidate pauses for a moment, then answers perfectly.
Method.A global hotkey, often Ctrl+Enter, summons the answer. The operating system hands the key to the tool, so the interview window never receives it.
The tell.The half of the keystroke that leaks through: a Ctrl with no partner, an Enter released that was never pressed. Any combo pressed over and over with no visible effect is flagged too.
Effect.A complete function appears in the editor in one go.
Method.The answer is pasted from another window, or typed in by a script faster than hands can move.
The tell.Every paste is logged with its length and time. A burst of keystrokes under 30 milliseconds apart reads as injected input.
Effect.Steady, confident answers, with the eyes held just off the screen.
Method.The candidate reads from a phone, a second monitor, or someone off camera.
The tell.On-device gaze and head-pose tracking, line-by-line reading patterns, and the sound of typing when no key is pressed in the interview.
This is what the interviewer reads during the call: what happened, and when. No score decides for them. The log below is an illustrative session, not a real candidate.
Three tells in eleven seconds at 23:41 deserve a question, not a conclusion. The log says what happened; the interviewer decides what it means.
The room your candidate sits in
A locked-down kiosk window: full screen, no window switching, no exit shortcuts except the one your proctor controls. The candidate joins, and the interview is the only thing on screen.
The browser version needs a full-screen share in Chrome, Edge or Firefox and can't see windows hidden from capture.
Your live control room
The risk score, a timestamped event log, the processes running on the candidate's machine, and the video call itself, side by side, so you stay in the conversation instead of hunting for a second screen.
Runs as a Windows app or straight in the browser.
Yes — UnGhosted is purpose-built anti-cheat software for live technical interviews. Instead of relying on the interviewer noticing something by eye, it directly checks for the mechanisms AI-assisted cheating tools actually use, like a display-affinity flag that hides a window from every screen share.
Three things: behavioral signal (tab switches, window blur, clipboard pastes, keystroke cadence, hotkeys swallowed by hidden tools), hidden-window detection (some tools set a Windows display-affinity flag to disappear from any screen share — UnGhosted checks for that flag directly), and camera-based presence tracking (gaze, head pose, and blink-based attention).
No — UnGhosted isn't a plugin for an existing video tool. The candidate and interviewer apps include their own built-in video call, so the interview itself runs inside UnGhosted rather than alongside it.
No. UnGhosted surfaces the underlying signal — a tab switch, a hidden window, a gaze deviation — in plain language, and the interviewer decides what it means. Signals, not verdicts.
The Windows desktop apps are available now, with macOS and Linux coming soon. Both apps also run in the browser (Chrome, Edge or Firefox) with no install.
Both apps ship together and are free to use while UnGhosted is in early access.
Request access above, or go straight to the download page if you're ready to install both apps now.
Request access to try UnGhosted on your next technical interview. Both apps ship together, free while we're in early access.