Talview vs Honorlock - AI Proctoring Compared on Mac

Talview and Honorlock are both AI-driven proctoring platforms, but they live in different worlds: Talview owns the IT-certification and enterprise-hiring market, while Honorlock dominates US higher education. Their tech stacks share the same browser-extension approach, with small but real differences in what they monitor.

Talview's core stack is a Secure Browser (Chromium fork) plus an AI module that scores eye gaze, multi-face, and audio events. Honorlock layers on top of vanilla Chrome with a "search-and-destroy" ML pass that scans for unauthorized resources by reverse-image-searching exam screenshots against a database of known cheat sites. Both capture screens through Chrome's tab-capture path, both call macOS' ScreenCaptureKit under the hood, both filter out flagged windows. The difference for an overlay user is the search-and-destroy step in Honorlock - but it scans pixels Honorlock receives, and Honorlock receives no pixels of the overlay region.

It searches captured frames. The overlay is missing from those frames thanks to the privacy flag, so the search has nothing to compare.

Pricing and integrations. Honorlock plugs into Canvas/Blackboard out of the box; Talview requires more enterprise wiring.

It blocks browser-level shortcuts. The overlay uses a global Carbon hotkey (Ctrl-Cmd-L) registered below the application layer, so it survives.