AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to MeMex
A private, searchable memory for your Mac
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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An open source approach to locally record everything you view on your Apple Silicon computer. Note: Relies on Apple Silicon, and configured to only produce Apple Silicon builds. I think the idea of recording everything you see has the potential to change how we interact with our computers, and believe it should be open source. Also, from a privacy / security perspective, this is like... pretty scary stuff, and I want the code open so we know for certain that nothing is leaving your laptop. Even logging to Sentry has the potential to leak private info.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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After 18 months of tinkering and iterating, we want to show you our Memex: An open-source browser extension to effortlessly organise your web-research. We'd love to know what you think :) Check it out at https://worldbrain.io/hn Memex features: - Instantly find websites you visited with the fuzzy memories you have about them, instead of bookmarking everything or keeping dozens of open tabs. Search for every word of every website you’ve seen, and filter by time, domain, custom tags or bookmarks. - Add your thoughts to websites via comments & annotations, directly in the browser…
2018 · its alternatives →
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Ultramemory▲84Private AI memory for your Mac with no cloud or account
Jun 2026 · mac-ultramemory.com · its alternatives →
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Memex 1.0▲143Search, Annotate and Organize what you've read online.
2019 · memex.garden · its alternatives →
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2025 · gitea.bubbletea.dev · its alternatives →
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ScreenSorts▲124Search every screenshot, text, and detail privately
Feb 2026 · screensorts.app · its alternatives →
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OpenMemory MCP▲379Sync memory across AI's so they pick up where you left off.
2025 · mem0.ai · its alternatives →
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MemFlow▲113The time machine of your memory, never take notes again
2023 · memflow.ai · its alternatives →
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Memno▲104We built Memno. We like to think of Memno as an AI chief of staff. Every photo, document, and voice note you share becomes searchable memory. Ask "What did we decide about Q4?" and it pulls from all your sources. Can also make calls and send texts on your behalf (with approval!) Each user gets their own isolated environment with dedicated vector database, metadata storage, and object storage instances. Some highlights: - Complete data isolation per user (no shared databases), encrypted at rest - Sub-50ms vector search - Document processing pipeline for OCR/transcription/object…
2025 · memno.ai · its alternatives →
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Memdex▲276Turn every AI conversation into reusable local memory
May 2026 · memdex.ai · its alternatives →
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Atlas Recall▲291A searchable photographic memory for your digital life
2016 · atlas.co · its alternatives →
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Memex 2▲152Bookmarking for power users. History search & annotations
2020 · jo777.it.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We're Taranjeet and Deshraj, the founders of Mem0 (https://mem0.ai). Mem0 adds a stateful memory layer to AI applications, allowing them to remember user interactions, preferences, and context over time. This enables AI apps to deliver increasingly personalized and intelligent experiences that evolve with every interaction. There’s a demo video at https://youtu.be/VtRuBCTZL1o and a playground to try out at https://app.mem0.ai/playground. You'll need to sign up to use the playground – this helps ensure responses are more tailored to you by…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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mectrics▲268Your Mac's vitals in the menu bar. Free and open source.
Jul 2026 · mectrics.app · its alternatives →
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Earlyn▲84Searchable memory of your screen and meetings, on your Mac
20d ago · earlyn.app · its alternatives →
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It's a macOS menu bar app that reads the text of your focused window every few seconds through the Accessibility API. No screenshots, no video, or OCR. It writes plain markdown, one file per day, into a folder you choose. Point Claude Code (or anything with file access) at the folder and ask "what did I work on Tuesday?" or have it build memory about your projects. The folder contains an AGENTS.md explaining the format to the model. Thought it might be useful for someone so chucked it up on GitHub
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, TL;DR Memex is a cross-platform desktop app for vibe coding. Think ChatGPT + Claude Code rolled into one. Why we built it: We love chat tools like Perplexity and ChatGPT. We also love coding agents, like in Cursor and Windsurf. We don’t like that web-based app builders are opinionated about tech stack and we can’t run them locally. So, we built Memex to be a chat tool + coding agent that supports any tech stack. What it can do today: Claude Code-like coding. Agentic web search / research. Pre-built templates (e.g. fullstack, iOS, python + modal, etc). Inline data analysis + viz.…
2025 · memex.tech · its alternatives →
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