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DesktopRecord
Searchable screen memory
Your Mac never forgets. DesktopRecord quietly captures your screen and makes every word you've seen instantly searchable — all 100% on-device.
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DesktopRecord is the searchable memory for your Mac.
It quietly captures periodic snapshots of your screen throughout the day, runs on-device OCR on every frame, and indexes the text so you can instantly find anything you've ever looked at — an error message from last Tuesday, a Slack link you scrolled past, a number on a slide. If you saw it on screen, you can find it again.
Everything runs locally. Nothing is ever uploaded.
— FIND ANYTHING YOU'VE SEEN —
Full-text search across every screenshot, powered by Apple's Vision OCR and a fast local index. Search by the words that were on screen, filter by day, and jump straight to the exact moment.
— REPLAY YOUR DAY —
Scrub through an interactive timeline of your activity. See what you were working on at any minute, with the app and window title for context.
— UNDERSTAND YOUR HABITS —
Built-in analytics show how your time splits across apps with daily breakdowns and weekly trends — so you can see where the hours actually go.
— PRIVATE BY DESIGN —
• 100% on-device. No servers, no accounts, no telemetry.
• Exclude any app (password managers, banking, messaging).
• Blur sensitive regions before captures are saved.
• Auto-pause capture during screen sharing (Zoom, Teams, etc.).
• Require Touch ID or your password to open the app.
• Configurable retention automatically deletes old captures.
• Delete everything instantly, anytime.
— LIGHTWEIGHT —
DesktopRecord saves compact JPEG snapshots, not video, and runs OCR at low priority — so it stays out of your way and easy on your disk and battery.
— FREE TO START —
The core experience is free forever: continuous capture, timeline playback, daily analytics, privacy controls, and 3-day retention.
Upgrade to Pro once (no subscription) to unlock:
• OCR-powered full-text search
• Weekly trend analytics
• Extended retention (up to 90 days, or unlimited)
Requires macOS 14.0 or later. Works on Apple Silicon and Intel.
Initial release.
• Continuous on-device screen capture with configurable intervals
• OCR-powered full-text search across every screenshot (Pro)
• Interactive timeline to replay your day
• Daily and weekly app-usage analytics
• Privacy controls: app exclusions, blur regions, auto-pause on screen sharing, Touch ID lock
• Configurable data retention with automatic cleanup
• Menu bar quick access
https://github.com/<owner>/DesktopRecord
https://<your-landing-domain>/privacy
(The policy page lives in landing/src/app/privacy/page.tsx and exports to /privacy.)
In App Store Connect, under App Privacy, select "Data Not Collected." DesktopRecord collects no data and transmits nothing off-device. The only network entitlement is for StoreKit receipt validation, which Apple handles.
- Primary: Productivity
- Secondary: Utilities
## DesktopRecord v1.0.0
Searchable screen memory for your Mac — 100% on-device.
### Install
1. Download `DesktopRecord.dmg` below.
2. Open it and drag DesktopRecord to Applications.
3. Launch it and grant Screen Recording permission when prompted, then relaunch.
> Note: until the build is notarized with a Developer ID, macOS Gatekeeper may
> warn on first launch. Right-click the app → Open, or run the notarized build.
### Highlights
- Continuous capture + on-device OCR
- Full-text search across everything you've seen (Pro)
- Timeline replay and app analytics
- Privacy-first: exclusions, blur regions, auto-pause, Touch ID lock