Your Mac remembers,
so you don’t have to.
A quiet second brain that lives in your menu bar. It watches what’s on your screen, understands what matters, and writes it down for you.
- Free during beta
- macOS 14+
- No account
- Local-first
Ask ScreenMind
A month of memory,
one question away.
Ask in plain English. ScreenMind grounds the answer in the moments it kept for you — meeting notes, code reviews, articles, messages — and cites every one.
Notes kept
7,798
lifetime on the alpha cluster
Captured today
5
\u2193 97% vs avg day
Capture velocity
0.2/hr
event-driven, idle-aware
Weeks remembered
52
on-device, encrypted
Activity
Last 26 weeks · every cell a day of quiet attention
Features
A lot of thinking.
Very little app.
ScreenMind is designed to disappear. Everything it does happens in the background, so you can stay in the work you actually care about.
Always there. Never loud.
It lives in your menu bar.
One small glyph. No dock icon. No window to manage. Quiet until you ask.
Captured 2 min ago · from Safari
Anthropic tier-4 cap = 8M tokens/min.
Saved to Today · tagged #claude
Plain English, on your timeline.
Ask the last month anything.
What did I decide about SSO on Tuesday? ScreenMind pulls the meeting, the ticket, and the DM into one paragraph.
Event-driven capture.
Wakes on window change or long-read. Sleeps otherwise. Your battery won\u2019t notice.
Bring your own AI.
Claude, GPT, or a local Ollama model. One toggle, no fallback.
Local-first by default.
Encrypted SQLite on disk. No account. No ScreenMind server.
Redaction that works.
Password fields and banking UIs are masked on-device, before anything ships.
Today view.
A glanceable summary of the last eight hours \u2014 what you read, wrote, and decided.
One keystroke away.
\u2318\u21E7Space opens the question box from any app. Answer in under a second.
Context
It understands every app you live in.
Native macOS text extraction. No plugin. No extension. No browser inspection.
- Messages
- Safari
- Calendar
- Notes
- Code
- Terminal
- Figma
- Docs
- Meet
How it works
Three quiet things,
on repeat.
ScreenMind is a small program that does a small set of things, very consistently, on your machine.
It watches, not records.
ScreenMind samples your screen a few times a minute. Not a video. Not a keylogger. Just enough to know what you’re looking at.
It decides what matters.
A small, fast model on your Mac decides whether a moment is worth keeping. Most aren’t. The ones that are, get written down.
It gives you the words back.
A weekly wiki, a searchable timeline, and a question box. Ask the last month anything, in plain English.
A peek inside
Three surfaces. One quiet brain.
The app is small on purpose. It gives you back exactly three ways to look at your own attention.
Today
Timeline
A calendar of moments worth keeping.
Ask ScreenMind
Ask
Plain English over the last month.
This week
- SSO migration12 notes
- Billing v3 scope8 notes
- Q2 hiring plan5 notes
- Onboarding churn17 notes
Wiki
Every topic you touched, summarized.
I asked it what I decided about SSO on Tuesday. It pulled the Zoom note, the Linear ticket, and the Slack DM into one paragraph. That’s when I understood what this app actually is.
J. M.
Head of product · fintech · alpha tester
2,011 on the beta.
Engineers, PMs, researchers.
Privacy
Written down for you.
Not for anyone else.
- Where your notes live
- A single encrypted SQLite file on your Mac. You can open it, back it up, or delete it in one gesture.
- What we can see
- Nothing. There is no ScreenMind server, no account, and no telemetry we can read.
- Which AI sees your screen
- Only the provider you choose — Claude, OpenAI, or a local Ollama model. One toggle. No fallbacks.
- What never gets captured
- Password fields, banking apps, 1Password, Messages, and any app you blocklist. Redacted on-device.
- What leaves the device
- Only the text of moments you keep, and only to the AI provider you pointed at.
- How you walk away
- Export the database, uninstall the app. There is no recovery because there was never anyone else holding your data.
FAQ
Frequently asked.
Is this a recording app?
No. ScreenMind doesn’t record video or audio. It samples the screen a few times per minute and extracts text. The images aren’t kept.
What does “local-first” actually mean?
Your notes live in a single SQLite file on your Mac, encrypted at rest. There is no ScreenMind server. We can’t see what you capture because there is nothing to see.
Which AI providers are supported?
Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, and any Ollama model running locally. You can also point ScreenMind at a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
Will it drain my battery?
Capture is event-driven — on window focus changes and quiet moments. On an M-series Mac in a typical workday, CPU usage is under 1% averaged.
How much does it cost?
During the private beta, ScreenMind is free. Pricing will land with 1.0 and will not require an account.
How do I get the app?
Join the beta below. We email you a signed DMG with a SHA-256 checksum, direct from us. No App Store, no account.
Private beta
Two thousand people are in.
Make it two thousand and one.
Leave your email. We send the DMG and the SHA-256 checksum. That’s all.