Mnema
Private, searchable memory for your Mac. Mnema continuously records your screen, microphone, and system audio, turns it into a searchable, scrubbable, AI-queryable record of what you did — and keeps every byte on your device.
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What it does
- Continuous capture — screen, microphone, and system audio recorded quietly in the background, segmented and indexed as you work.
- Recall — full-text and semantic search over everything you've seen (OCR) and heard (transcription), plus a scrubbable timeline of your day.
- Ask AI — chat with your own history, or summon Quick Recall from anywhere like Spotlight. Works with cloud providers (Anthropic, OpenAI) or fully local models (Ollama, Llamafile) — your choice.
- Speaker analysis — on-device diarization tells you who said what in meetings.
- Agent access — a brokered
mnema CLI lets AI agents (Claude Code, MCP clients) search your activity with your permission. See mnema.day/agents.
Private by design
- Everything is stored in an SQLCipher-encrypted database on your Mac. Nothing leaves your device unless you explicitly opt in (e.g. a cloud AI provider or Deepgram transcription, each behind its own consent gate — with local alternatives for both).
- Privacy exclusion list: apps you exclude are filtered out of both screen capture and system audio.
- API keys and secrets live in an encrypted vault backed by the macOS keychain, never in config files.
- Retention windows let you cap how long raw recordings are kept; delete-recent removes everything from a time range.
Requirements
- macOS on Apple Silicon (system-audio capture requires macOS 15+).
- Screen Recording, Microphone, and (optionally) System Audio permissions.
Tech
Tauri 2 + Svelte 5 frontend, Rust backend. Capture runs on native macOS frameworks (ScreenCaptureKit, AVFoundation, Core Audio process taps); OCR via Apple Vision; transcription via Apple Speech, local Whisper/Parakeet, or Deepgram; on-device embeddings via candle on the Apple GPU. Platform support details: SUPPORTS.md.
apps/desktop Tauri + Svelte desktop app
apps/web mnema.day marketing site
crates/ capture, storage, AI runtime, and processing crates
docs/adr architecture decision records
Building from source
See CONTRIBUTING.md for prerequisites and build steps.
License
AGPL-3.0. Mnema is open source; the packaged app is sold with a one-time purchase license at mnema.day.
