You saw it. You cannot find it. A screen memory app closes that gap: it keeps a searchable record of what was on your screen and what was said in your meetings, so Tuesday afternoon is still reachable on Friday. LUCI does it on your own Mac or Windows machine, free.
A screen memory app keeps a record of what appeared on your screen and turns it into something you can search later, in plain words. LUCI is a free desktop app for Mac and Windows from Memories AI that remembers your screen and meetings on your own device and gives that memory to AI agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. Where a screen recorder hands you a video file to scrub through, a screen memory app hands you the moment you asked for. The category grew out of Rewind on the Mac and Microsoft Recall on Windows; what changed since is that the memory is now expected to be readable by the AI tools you already use.
Your whole day on the computer — meetings, email, code, everything in between. Not a folder of clips you meant to label, and not a summary that already threw away the line you needed. LUCI reads and understands what is on screen, locally, and keeps the underlying moment so you can go back to it.
Nobody remembers filenames. People remember that the chart was orange, that it was a Tuesday, that it came up right after the standup. Ask for it that way and LUCI returns the moment: the frame, the app, the timestamp, and whatever was being said at the time.
Cards, keys, and passwords are blacked out before anything is saved. Sensitive apps and windows can be left out of scope entirely. The memory is stored on your device and encrypted at rest, so the record of your work is not also a liability sitting in someone else's account.
Every word — yours and theirs — in meetings and calls, sitting next to what was on screen while it was said. That pairing is the part most screen memory tools skip, and it is usually the part that answers the question you came with.
Six tools people land on when they search for this, on the six questions that decide it. Details come from each vendor's own documentation and pricing pages; a dash means we could not source the answer.
| Tool | Platform | Screen capture | Meeting audio | Where data is processed | Works with AI agents | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LUCI | Mac & Windows | Continuous, with on-device understanding | Yours and theirs, in meetings and calls | On your device, encrypted at rest | Claude, Cursor, Codex | Free |
| Screenpipe | Mac, Windows, Linux | 24/7 capture with OCR | Yes | On-device | No | Free tier; $21/mo or $250/yr |
| Microsoft Recall | Windows 11 24H2+, Copilot+ PC only | Snapshots every few seconds | No — does not record audio | On-device, Copilot+ PC required | No | Free with a Copilot+ PC |
| Rewind AI | macOS — capture disabled Dec 19, 2025 | Screenshots every few seconds | Audio capture | On-device; some text sent to OpenAI | No | No longer available |
| OpenRecall | Mac, Windows, Linux | Screenshots with OCR and semantic search | No | On-device | — | Free, open source |
| Granola | Mac & Windows | No screen capture | Yes, bot-free | Cloud transcription, US-hosted AWS | No | Free tier; $14–$35/user/mo |
Most tools in this category stop at a search box. That was enough in 2024, when the only reader was you. It is not enough now, because the thing that most needs to know what you did this week is the agent sitting in your editor asking you to explain it again.
LUCI closes that loop through Agent Bridge. Works with Claude, Cursor, and Codex — LUCI connects itself, nothing to set up. Your agent reads what it needs, when it needs it, and the rest of the memory stays where it was. There is more on how that works in agent memory, and on the capture side in the AI screen recorder.
Each day also gets distilled into your Life folder: a plain record of what happened, written by your agent, that you can read, edit, or delete like any other file on your disk. See what LUCI is for the short version.
A screen memory app keeps a record of what appeared on your screen and turns it into something you can search later, in words rather than by scrubbing a video file. The good ones also capture what was said in your meetings, so the spoken half of the day is in the same record as the visual half.
No. A screen recorder gives you a video file. A screen memory app gives you an answer: which app, which document, which moment, with the frame attached. LUCI records underneath, but the thing you interact with is a searchable memory, not a folder of recordings.
On the machine that made it, encrypted at rest. Capture and on-device understanding both run locally, so search still works with the network off. Nothing is uploaded to build an index somewhere else.
Cards, keys, and passwords are blacked out before anything is saved. You also choose which apps and windows are in scope, so anything you would rather LUCI never sees can be excluded up front.
Rewind stopped capturing on December 19, 2025 after Meta acquired its parent company, and the Mac app is no longer sold or developed. LUCI is the closest working replacement for the two things people actually used Rewind for: a searchable record of the screen, and recall of what was said on calls. It runs on Mac and Windows.
Yes. Works with Claude, Cursor, and Codex — LUCI connects itself, nothing to set up. Your agent answers from what you actually worked on instead of asking you to paste it back in. What the agent retrieves becomes part of that conversation, so you decide which agents you connect.
A searchable memory of your screen and your meetings, on your own machine.
Free on Mac and Windows. Encrypted at rest.