Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Recall Memory – Your Personal Local Time Machine for Mac
Recall Memory is a free Sandboxed Mac App which let's you scroll through time and allows you to "Recall" what you were doing earlier. Recall works by capturing the active window every second and only saves screenshots with significant changes. Making it easy to scroll through what you were doing earlier. All data is processed and always stored locally.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Recall Memory – Your Personal Local Time Machine for Mac 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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Atlas Recall▲291A searchable photographic memory for your digital life
2016 · atlas.co · its alternatives →
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Memory by Timely▲502An intelligent timeline of everything you did in a day.
2017 · timely.com · 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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Active Recall▲1,078Chat with everything you’ve read, heard, watched, or noted
2024 · recall.it · its alternatives →
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Your memories, in every LLM you use.
2025 · mcp.supermemory.ai · its alternatives →
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Flot Memory▲578Your personal knowledge base to remember everything
2024 · flot.ai · its alternatives →
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Transcribe and share clips from your Zoom calls for free
2021 · its alternatives →
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2012 · memstash.co · 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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MemoryBubble▲85Pop Bubbles To clean your Mac's memory
Jan 2026 · memorybubble.app · its alternatives →
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The local Artificial memory for your device.
2024 · recallmemory.io · its alternatives →
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Memory Timer▲56Memory Timer helps you remind of important dates or events.
2020 · play.google.com · 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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Stop wasting tokens and re-explaining your project every session. Recall gives Claude Code durable memory — entirely offline. - raiyanyahya/recall
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MCP server that lets your AI assistant remember everything about your home. - impactjo/home-memory
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I'm José, and I built Recall to solve a problem that was driving me crazy. The Problem: I use Claude for coding daily, but every conversation starts from scratch. I'd explain my architecture, coding standards, past decisions... then hit the context limit and lose everything. Next session? Start over. The Solution: Recall is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that gives Claude persistent memory using Redis + semantic search. Think of it as long-term memory that survives context limits and session restarts. How it works: - Claude stores important context as "memories" during…
2025 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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