Scroll back through time
Press ⌥⌘T from anywhere and your past fills the screen. Scroll, drag, or use the arrow keys to move through minutes, hours, or months. Press space to hear what was said at that moment.
Rewind your computer.
OpenRewind remembers everything you’ve seen and heard on your screen. Search any word, or scroll back to any moment. It runs entirely on your own machine, costs nothing, and the code is yours to read.
$0, forever. No account, no subscription, no cloud.
Recording
launch the beta on Thursday after the review
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$0Free to download and use, with no paid tier
100%Local. Nothing leaves your computer
MITOpen source. Read, fork, and change it
2 sA new snapshot whenever your screen changes
What it does
A memory for everything
on your screen.
You read hundreds of pages, chats, and docs a day, and hear hours of calls. OpenRewind keeps all of it, so the thing you half remember is always one search away.
Search what you saw
Text is read straight from each app’s accessibility tree, with on-device OCR as a backup, then indexed for instant full-text search.
Search what you heard
Your mic and your computer’s audio are transcribed by Whisper on your own machine. Meetings and videos show up in the same search as screen text.
Private by default
Pick the apps it should never see, like password managers, banking and private browsing. They’re blurred in every screenshot and their text is never saved.
You decide what stays
Keep recordings for a day, a year, or until you delete them. Wipe the last 15 minutes, today, or everything in one click.
Plain files you own
Your history is SQLite and JPEGs in one folder. Back it up, move it, or open it with any tool you like.
Free and open source
Your memory shouldn’t come with a subscription, or an off switch.
Screen memory apps have been sold, shut down, and switched off before, taking people’s history with them. OpenRewind is built so that can’t happen. The code is public under the MIT license, the data lives in plain files on your disk, and there’s nothing to pay for.
$0
Every feature. Every platform. Forever.
- No account or sign-up
- No subscription or paid tier
- No cloud, no tracking, no ads
- MIT license: use, fork, change, share
- Built in the open, with every line on GitHub
How it works
Three quiet steps,
all on your machine.
01
Capture
Every 2 seconds OpenRewind takes a snapshot, and throws it away if nothing changed. Mic and system audio are saved in 30-second chunks, and silence is dropped.
02
Understand
Text is pulled from the focused window, falling back to on-device OCR. Audio is transcribed by local Whisper. No server ever sees it.
03
Remember
Everything lands in a full-text index on your disk. Search it from the timeline or the menu bar.
The timeline
Made for your keyboard.
Fly through your day without touching the mouse.
- ⌥⌘T
- Open the timeline from anywhere
- ←→
- Step through moments
- ⇧←
- Jump a minute
- ↑↓
- Jump ten minutes
- space
- Play the audio from that moment
- +−
- Zoom the timeline
- N
- Jump back to now
Download
Free for everyone.
Pick your computer.
Windows
Windows 10 and 11. Lives in your system tray. Same timeline, same search.
Download for Windows Windows on ARMBuild from source
Clone the repo and build it yourself in a minute.
swift build -c releaseDownloads are hosted on GitHub Releases. Every build is free and built automatically from the public source code.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Is OpenRewind really free?
Yes. There’s no trial, no paid plan, and no account. It’s open source under the MIT license, so you can use it, share it, and change it however you like.
Does any of my data leave my computer?
No. Screenshots, audio, transcripts, and the search index all stay in one folder on your disk. Speech is turned into text on your own computer, and the built-in search page can only be opened from your own computer.
How much disk space does it use?
Frames that didn’t change are skipped and silent audio is dropped, which keeps it small. You can also have older recordings deleted automatically after a day, week, month, or year.
What won’t it record?
Password fields, the lock screen and the screen saver are never recorded. The first time you open OpenRewind it asks which apps and websites to block, with password managers, money apps, private browsing windows and bank websites already ticked. Blocked apps and sites are blurred wherever they are on screen and their text is never saved, and you can change the list anytime in Settings → Blocked Apps & Sites. You can also pause screen or audio recording from the menu.
Is this the old Rewind app?
No. OpenRewind is new, independent code inspired by the idea of rewinding your screen. It isn’t made by or connected to Rewind AI, Limitless, or Meta.
Can I contribute?
Please do. Issues, ideas, and pull requests are all welcome on GitHub.
Never lose a thought again.
Free, open source, and private. Start remembering in under a minute.