Install Interview Clozo on your Mac

1. 1

   Download the disk image

   Start Free Trial first — the download needs a trial. Then use the private download link on your account page or in your trial-start email (on this page, signed in, the button below becomes Download for Mac). Your Mac saves a single file — InterviewClozo.dmg — into your Downloads folder. If your browser asks whether to keep it, choose Keep.

   A .dmg is a disk image: a sealed container that holds the app, a bit like a zip file that macOS can open as a drive. It is not the app itself, which is exactly why there is a step 2.

   Start Free Trial

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   Then sign in on the app. With your free trial started, that’s the step that sends your free copy of Never Take the First Offer, our salary negotiation book.

2. 2

   Drag Interview Clozo onto Applications

   Double-click InterviewClozo.dmg. A window opens showing two things: the Interview Clozo app on the left, and a shortcut to your Applications folder on the right.

   Press and hold on the app, drag it across onto the Applications folder in that same window, and let go. A short copy progress bar appears. That is the whole installation.

   Upgrading from an older version? Drag the previous Interview.app to the Trash first. The app was renamed, so otherwise both sit in Applications side by side and you may open the wrong one.
3. 3

   Eject the disk image, then open the app from Applications

   In the Finder sidebar, click the small eject arrow next to “Interview Clozo”. Then open your Applications folder (in Finder: Go › Applications, or press ⇧⌘A) and double-click Interview Clozo there.

   Why this matters, and it really does: the copy inside the disk image lives on a temporary volume. Run that one and the app vanishes from under you the moment the image is ejected or your Mac restarts. Worse, macOS pins every privacy permission to the exact copy of the app that asked for it — so Microphone, Screen Recording and Accessibility switches you flip for the disk-image copy do not carry over to the one in Applications, and you get asked for all of them a second time. Install it properly once and you grant permissions once.

   Once the app is in Applications you can throw InterviewClozo.dmg away. Nothing depends on it.
4. 4

   Open Interview Clozo

   Double-click Interview Clozo in your Applications folder. It opens, its setup assistant appears, and you carry straight on to step 5. For almost everyone that is the entire step.

   The app is code-signed, and releases go through Apple's notarization check — the one macOS runs the first time it meets an app it has never seen before. With that ticket in place your Mac opens it without asking you anything.

   Fallback — only if macOS interrupts

   If macOS says it “could not verify” the app

   You will see this on an older download, or on a Mac that could not reach Apple to check the ticket at the moment you first opened the app. It is macOS reporting a missing verification — not a virus finding. Allow it once and macOS remembers the decision permanently.

   On macOS 15 (Sequoia), and the same on macOS 26:

   1. Double-click Interview Clozo in Applications. The “Apple could not verify…” message appears — click Done.
   2. Open System Settings ( menu → System Settings).
   3. Click Privacy & Security in the sidebar, then scroll all the way down to the Security section.
   4. You will see: “Interview Clozo” was blocked to protect your Mac. Click Open Anyway.
   5. Confirm with Touch ID or your Mac login password, then click Open in the last dialog.

   Skip steps 2 and 3 — open that page in one click. Do step 1 first (double-click the app and click Done), because macOS only shows the Open Anyway button after it has blocked the app once. Then press this:

   Open Privacy & Security for me

   Your browser may first ask whether to allow this page to open System Settings — choose Allow. Scroll to the bottom of that page and the Open Anyway button is waiting there. If the button does nothing, your browser has blocked the macOS link; follow steps 2 and 3 by hand instead.

   On macOS 14 (Sonoma) there is a shortcut: in Applications, right-click (or Control-click) Interview Clozo → Open → Open. Apple removed that bypass in macOS 15 — on Sequoia and later, right-click → Open shows the same block, so use the System Settings path above.
5. 5

   Set Zoom's screen capture mode

   One switch, set once, and Zoom keeps it for every meeting after it. Do it now rather than in the two minutes before a call — Zoom applies the change to the next meeting you join, not the one you are already in.

   1. Open Zoom. Click your profile picture in the top-right corner, then Settings (or press ⌘,).
   2. Choose Share Screen in the left-hand sidebar.
   3. Click the Advanced button at the bottom of that pane.
   4. Find Screen capture mode and set it to “Advanced capture with window filtering”.
   5. Close Settings. There is no Save button — Zoom stores the choice the moment you pick it.

   Zoom › Settings › Share Screen › Advanced › Screen capture mode › Advanced capture with window filtering

   What you should see: a dropdown of capture modes, one of which is Advanced capture with window filtering. Pick that one. If it currently reads Previous operating systems, that is the legacy path and exactly what you are moving off. Zoom keeps the choice, so the pane shows it again next time you look.

   Why it matters: this is Zoom's modern capture path, and it is the one that honours macOS window-level exclusions. On it, your cockpit is excluded from the share by macOS itself, at the window level — they share their screen, or you share yours, and the cockpit is not on it. The legacy mode predates that behaviour, which is why this switch is worth thirty seconds now instead of a surprise later.

   Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and anything in a browser tab need no setting at all. They already use the modern macOS capture path, so the exclusion applies the moment you launch the app. Zoom is the one client with a switch, and this is it.

   Zoom's own layout shifts between versions. If you do not see Advanced under Share Screen, update Zoom to the current release and look again — the setting moved into that pane in recent versions. And you are never guessing at showtime: the cockpit carries a live Protected / Unprotected chip that reports the real state of the window exclusion, confirmed by macOS, for the whole session.
6. 6

   Let the app finish setup — it takes over from here

   That is the last thing this page asks of you. Interview Clozo greets you with its own guided setup and walks you through, in order:

   • Sign in. There is no separate sign-up: your account is created from your checkout email when you Start Free Trial, and you sign in with it inside the app.
   • Start Free Trial on a plan. The Trial is three interviews of up to 50 minutes each, run on the Monthly or Yearly plan you pick, so you can feel it work in a real round before the plan starts. Monthly is $199/month; Yearly is $999 a year. Both are covered by the Better Loop Guarantee — 14 days on Monthly, 30 on Yearly.
   • Grant the macOS permissions, guided. A live checklist shows each permission's current status, has a one-tap button, and deep-links straight to the exact System Settings pane. Do them all now, once, and macOS never interrupts a live interview with a popup.
   • Add a résumé (optional, but do it). Drop in a PDF, a Word file, even a photo of your CV. Answers then cite your real projects, employers and numbers instead of inventing a career for you.
   • Take the guided walkthrough. A hands-on tour of every control you will actually use — hotkeys, panes, the panic key — ending in your first session. It runs on a one-time practice session of its own, so it does not spend one of your free interviews, and you can replay the tour any time from Settings.

   Nothing else to install. Interview Clozo hears the interviewer straight from your Mac's system audio. There is no virtual audio driver to set up, no extra icon in your Dock, and no meeting-app plugin.

Signing in

1. Open Interview Clozo from Applications.
2. In “Sign in to Interview Clozo”, type your email address in the first box. It takes an email or a username.
3. Type your password and choose Sign in. No password yet? Set one on your account page first.Set one on your account page first.
4. That’s it. With your free trial on, your book is emailed to you now.