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24 alternatives to OpenRecall FOSS alternative to Microsoft's new Recall feature

OpenRecall is a fully open-source, privacy-first alternative to proprietary solutions like Microsoft's Windows Recall. With OpenRecall, you can easily access your digital history, enhancing your memory and productivity without compromising your privacy. - openrecall/openrecall

OpenRecall is an open-source alternative to Microsoft's Recall feature that automatically captures and stores screenshots of user activity. Built for privacy-conscious users who want a locally-controlled version of… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. OpenRecall FOSS alternative to Microsoft's new Recall feature launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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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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    ScreenREC▲289

    Free online screen recorder | no download required

    Dec 2025 · screen-rec.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    A searchable photographic memory for your digital life

    2016 · atlas.co · its alternatives →

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    Recall▲177

    Open-source alternative to Google Photos 📸

    2018 · recall.photos · its alternatives →

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    Summarize, connect and organize ALL your online content

    2023 · recall.it · its alternatives →

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    Screenity▲878

    The most powerful screen recorder for Chrome

    2020 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I've been working on this project for the last 5 months, inspired by Screen Studio but runs 100% in the browser. Here is a demo of the editor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7-etsFZgPI One of the big challenges of using the browser is getDisplayMedia, the API for recording screens, doesn't provide mouse coordinates for security reasons. Mouse coordinates are important for auto-focus animations. So I trained a YOLOv11 model to detect mouse cursors and I run inference in real time while you record. Also, I created my own Remotion-style renderer because I started with…

    2025 · screenrecorder.me · its alternatives →

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    🔥 🔥 🔥 The Open Source Retool Alternative. Contribute to openblocks-dev/openblocks development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    hi author here, Screenmind is privacy first Microsoft recall alternative . It runs on gemma 4 which is one of the fewer models supporting vision audio and reasoning all 3, so your data never leaves you machine. With screenmind you can keep a track of your timeline , how much time you spent on what..search any screenshot with any text on it.. and the coolest thing, you can chat with your screen history, like what did alex texted me on discord or did i received any mail from Microsoft, if it was on your screen , you can prompt it in the cha. and also you can make automations on top of it, like…

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Fast access to real-time meeting data without bots

    2024 · docs.recall.ai · its alternatives →

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    I've been working on Recall for a while now, it had some initial traction in the beginning which has since died down now. I am facing the inevitable question of whether to continue with the project. I just put out a new release and it would be helpful to get advice from the community on what they think of the idea and my implementation.

    2022 · recall-app.com · its alternatives →

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    Rewisp▲172

    See it once. Ask forever.

    Jul 2026 · yashmitb.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Embeddable session replay infrastructure on rrweb, the open source standard. Unbranded SDK, ingest on your domain, replay through your API. Free tier included.

    2018 · rrweb.io · its alternatives →

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    Document Scanner that protects your privacy. Contribute to ethereal-developers/OpenScan development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Got into a rabbit hole today. POC works using 'npx efficient-recorder'. Is this useful to anyone?

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Cap is the free, open source screen recorder for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Record, edit, take screenshots, and share videos with a link.

    2024 · cap.so · its alternatives →

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    Open source solution for long term memory for LLMs

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    🔥🔥🔥 Open source Reverse ETL - alternative to hightouch and census. - GitHub - Multiwoven/multiwoven: 🔥🔥🔥 Open source Reverse ETL - alternative to hightouch and census.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Transcribe and share clips from your Zoom calls for free

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, Nir, Gal and Tomer here. We’re open-sourcing a set of extensions we’ve built on top of OpenTelemetry that provide visibility into LLM applications - whether it be prompts, vector DBs and more. Here’s the repo: https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry. There’s already a decent number of tools for LLM observability, some open-source and some not. But what we found was missing for all of them is that they were closed-protocol by design, vendor-locking you to use their observability platform or their proprietary framework for running your LLMs. It’s still early in the…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Undo/Redo Any Video on Any Site

    2025 · videorecall.pages.dev · its alternatives →

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    If you've built any web-based app in the last 15 years, you probably used something like Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, etc. to monitor and trace your app, right? Why should it be different when the app you're building happens to be using LLMs? So today we're open-sourcing OpenLLMetry-JS. It's an open protocol and SDK, based on OpenTelemetry, that provides traces and metrics for LLM JS/TS applications and can be connected to any of the 15+ tools that already support OpenTelemetry. Here's the repo: https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry-js A few months ago we launched…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Recalll▲108

    Search and discover information across services.

    2015 · unpod.ai · its alternatives →

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