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What It Is

screenpipe positions itself as an open-source alternative to Rewind AI. It continuously captures your computer screen and audio, then turns that content into a searchable, replayable, and queryable “personal digital memory.” Unlike Rewind/Limitless, which have moved toward cloud and hardware-based approaches, screenpipe emphasizes a local-first, open-source, self-hostable model, with support for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Core Features

Its core capabilities include screen recording, text extraction, audio transcription, meeting video and subtitle playback, timeline browsing, keyword search, and AI-powered natural-language Q&A. Users can ask what happened during a specific time period, or search by app name, browser tab, or window content. One developer-friendly aspect is support for SQL, APIs, and custom scripts to query local data directly, as well as the ability to build plugins, pipes, integrations, or custom UIs. On the AI side, the page mentions local inference powered by Ollama, with cloud models also available as an option. The Business plan includes Cloud AI and 50+ integrations, such as Notion, Slack, and Linear.

Pricing and Privacy

The open-source version is licensed under MIT, and the page says it can be used for free. Paid desktop apps and subscriptions are also available. Basic costs $21/month or $250/year and is aimed at individuals. Business costs $42/seat/month or $500/seat/year, with cross-device sync, team seats, and integrations. Enterprise costs $150/seat/month and is designed for organization-level deployments, including centralized management, local/proprietary storage, retention policies, and more. Privacy is a key selling point: data is stored locally and encrypted, is not uploaded to the cloud without explicit consent, and users can pause capture for sensitive apps, exclude private browsing, delete specific records, and enable on-device PII blurring.

Pros, Cons, and Who It’s For

The main strengths are that it is open source, local-first, cross-platform, and highly extensible. It is a good fit for developers, researchers, heavy meeting users, and teams that need to look back through work history. The limitations are also clear: continuous screen recording brings storage and performance costs. The page discloses around 20-30GB/month of storage usage, with background usage typically under 20% CPU and 1GB of memory. The quality of the Chinese interface, Chinese OCR, and transcription is not specified, and the personal plan is not especially cheap.

Access from China

The page does not disclose availability in mainland China, supported payment methods, or localization support, so china_access can only be considered unknown. If it cannot be used reliably, alternatives could include local screen-recording tools, meeting transcription tools, or a self-hosted knowledge base. However, in the combined area of “full screen memory + local AI search,” screenpipe’s open-source nature makes it relatively distinctive.