If you are the sort of engineer who checks what a binary talks to before granting it screen-recording permission, this page is written for you. ReMynd is a local AI memory for your Mac that captures what you see, makes it searchable, and lets the AI agent you already use answer questions from it.
You are also, statistically, the densest concentration of people this is built for. Per the Anthropic Economic Index, Computer and Mathematical tasks account for 23.8% of global AI usage — the largest single category of AI work.
Bring your own agent
Most AI tools want your data on their servers before they answer anything. ReMynd keeps the searchable index on your computer and lets the agent you already use read it.
With your own agent. Turn on Claude Code or Codex in Settings → AI Integrations, or choose Open Agent from the menu bar. The agent reads your history through ReMynd's bundled, read-only command and answers with its own model, so what it reads goes to Anthropic or OpenAI under your own account. Screen frames are on by default for agents, and one switch turns them off.
Search plans queries with ReMynd's AI. Search matches your history in a local index. When a query reads like a question, ReMynd sends only its words, any filters you picked, the date and your time zone to its own AI to plan the search, through OpenRouter providers with zero data retention. Your history and results are never in that request.
Your own endpoint, for extensions. Settings → AI Integrations → Your Own AI Keys → Add Custom API takes the scheme, host, port and path of a server you run, plus a key if it needs one. It has to implement the OpenAI Responses API. Extension prompt steps can use it; search and the other built in AI features do not.
What it is actually useful for
Retracing a debugging session. Three days later, you need the stack trace, the config value you tried, and the GitHub issue that turned out to be the answer. All of it was on screen; none of it was saved. Search for it, or ask your agent.
Finding which doc or tab answered the question. Not "search my notes" — you never took notes. The API doc with the rate-limit table, the Slack thread where someone explained the deploy order, the pricing page you compared six weeks ago.
Code review context. What did this module look like before the refactor, what did the author say about it in the call, what was the ticket actually asking for. Three sources, one timeline.
Reconstructing your own week. Standups, retros, and the honest version of where the time went, without manual logging.
The architecture, in one screen
Capture. The recorder runs as a separate process from the UI. It records every window you have not excluded, reads text only from the focused window, and skips frames when nothing has changed.
OCR. Apple's Vision framework, on the Neural Engine, on your machine. This is the step people assume must be a server call; on a Mac it is not.
Index. Local SQLite. Full-text search for exact matches — an API key, an error string, a hostname. A query that reads like a question gets a planning step from ReMynd's AI, which sees only the query.
Inference. There is no chat inside the app. Answers come from the agent you connect, with its own model. Your own OpenAI Responses API endpoint serves extension prompt steps.
Storage. Your disk. Optional cloud sync encrypts recordings on your Mac with a password you set before upload, to ReMynd's storage on a paid plan or to your own S3 bucket. The claim we are willing to make in public is the narrow, checkable one: ReMynd keeps the searchable index on your computer, and cloud sync is opt-in.
Agent access. Your agent reads history over a read-only database connection. It also carries its own tools, including a shell, which is how it acts rather than only answers — the same power as a terminal, and worth treating that way.
The part most pages leave out
Any real Mac app makes network calls. ReMynd signs you in and reports crashes, like everything else you have installed. That is not your memory, and you should hear it from us rather than find it in Little Snitch.
What we will not tell you is that nothing ever leaves your machine. That claim is false the moment you count authentication, and an app that makes it either has not thought carefully about the boundary or is hoping you will not check.
If the architecture is what you care about, the longer version is in private AI on your Mac. If you are comparing against the source-available option, ReMynd vs Screenpipe is deliberately generous to Screenpipe.