screenpipe

Screenpipe is an open-source AI tool that captures and indexes everything on your screen, enabling powerful local search and retrieval across your entire digital workspace. It continuously records your screen activity and uses on-device processing to make that data searchable and actionable, without sending information to external servers. The tool is designed for professionals who need to recall information from past work sessions, understand their own productivity patterns, or extract data from applications that lack native export capabilities. Rather than manually searching through folders or browser history, users can simply ask Screenpipe to find that email screenshot from three weeks ago or locate the exact moment they discussed a project detail in a meeting recording. The platform appeals to researchers managing large amounts of multimedia content, developers debugging complex workflows, and knowledge workers who struggle with digital organization. Compared to traditional search tools like Windows Search or macOS Spotlight, Screenpipe offers AI-powered semantic understanding of screen content, not just filename matching. It differs from cloud-based solutions like Microsoft Copilot for Windows by keeping all data local and under user control, though this means it requires more local compute resources and won't sync across devices. Privacy-conscious organizations and individuals building custom AI applications benefit most from its open-source nature and lack of data collection.