AI That Remembers Everything on Your Screen Free
AI memory for your screen — captures everything locally and makes it searchable and actionable.
Most productivity tools help you create content, but nothing helps you remember what you already saw, typed, or heard. Rewind AI does this for macOS but costs $25 per month and keeps your data in their cloud. Microsoft Recall sparked controversy when announced as a Windows 11 feature that uploads screen data to Microsoft infrastructure.
Screenpipe takes a different approach: it records your screen and audio continuously, stores everything locally on your device, and uses OCR and Whisper transcription to make the entire archive searchable through natural language queries. Ask it what you were doing at 2pm last Tuesday, which website you visited while researching a topic, or what someone said in a meeting — and it finds the answer from your own encrypted local data.
The real power comes through its plugin system, called Pipes. These are short automation scripts — written in JavaScript or defined in markdown — that run on a schedule and act on your captured data. You can build a Pipe that summarizes your daily activity, extracts key decisions from meeting transcriptions, or pushes action items to Notion or Slack automatically.
Screenpipe exposes an MCP server endpoint, making it natively compatible with Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any AI assistant that supports the Model Context Protocol. It also works with Ollama for fully local LLM inference — zero data leaving your machine. The entire stack is written in Rust for minimal CPU and memory overhead, with a TypeScript and JavaScript SDK for building custom integrations. MIT licensed and actively developed with over 18,000 GitHub stars.