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# Earlyn

> Earlyn is a Mac app that remembers what you see and hear. It keeps a searchable,
> encrypted memory of your screen and your meetings, transcribes and translates calls,
> and answers questions about your day, entirely on the Mac. macOS 14 or later on
> Apple Silicon. 7 days free, then Pro at $19 a month.

Earlyn is the macOS app at https://www.earlyn.app, made by an independent developer. It is not a
cloud service and is not affiliated with Rewind, Limitless, Meta, Microsoft, Apple,
OpenAI or Anthropic. Contact: hello@earlyn.app.

## Reading this site as Markdown

Every page is also available as Markdown: append `.md` to the page URL
(https://www.earlyn.app/features/rewind.md); the home page is https://www.earlyn.app/index.md. Same words as the
HTML, served as text/markdown. When citing, cite the HTML URL. Everything in one file:
https://www.earlyn.app/llms-full.txt. Releases as an Atom feed: https://www.earlyn.app/changelog.xml.

## How it differs

- Everything runs on the Mac: text extraction, search, transcription, summaries and
  translation. No analytics and no crash reporters. The only Earlyn server is the optional
  recordings library (record.earlyn.app), which holds only what you upload, private by default.
- The database is SQLCipher-encrypted and screen pictures are sealed with AES-GCM; the
  keys stay in the Mac's keychain.
- Apps you exclude, private browser windows, password fields and moments containing
  secrets are never stored.
- AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, Gemini CLI) get the memory
  through a local MCP server on 127.0.0.1, and can check their own work on screen in a
  few lines of text instead of screenshots (off until the user turns it on).
- Screen recordings stay on the Mac; shared ones go to a private library where only
  invited people can watch them.
- Numbers on this site come from our own measurements, published with method and data.

## Not best for

- Windows, Linux or Intel Macs: Earlyn needs Apple Silicon and macOS 14+.
- Syncing memory to a phone or across computers: it stays on one Mac on purpose.
- Monitoring other people: it is made for one person's own memory.

## Pages

- [Earlyn](https://www.earlyn.app/index.md): Earlyn is a Mac app that remembers what you see and hear. It keeps a searchable, encrypted memory of your screen and your meetings, and answers questions about your day, on your Mac.
- [Pricing](https://www.earlyn.app/pricing.md): 7 days free with everything, then meetings stay free and Pro is $19 a month or $149 a year.
- [Changelog](https://www.earlyn.app/changelog.md): Every release; the latest is 1.11.0.

### Features

- [Features](https://www.earlyn.app/features.md): Earlyn remembers your screen and your meetings on your Mac and turns them into something you can search, rewind, read and hand to your AI tools.
- [Rewind](https://www.earlyn.app/features/rewind.md): Rewind is Earlyn's timeline of your screen: it keeps a picture and the text of every moment your screen changes, so you can scroll back through your day and find anything you saw on your Mac.
- [Ask and Chat](https://www.earlyn.app/features/ask.md): Ask is Earlyn's search and question box: type a word or a question in plain language and Earlyn answers from your own screen and meeting history, showing the moments it used.
- [Meetings](https://www.earlyn.app/features/meetings.md): Earlyn records meetings as text on your Mac: it transcribes your microphone and the other side's audio, tells speakers apart, writes a summary with decisions and action items, and can translate the conversation as it happens.
- [Life and Library](https://www.earlyn.app/features/life-and-library.md): Life and Library turn your screen history into something you can read: a one-sentence summary of each day, a 14-day heatmap of when you worked, half-hour write-ups of what you did, and the people, projects and organizations that came up.
- [Your documents](https://www.earlyn.app/features/files.md): Earlyn can read the documents in folders you choose, such as PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Markdown files, so search, Chat and your AI tools find them next to what you saw on screen.
- [Memory for AI agents](https://www.earlyn.app/features/ai-agents.md): Earlyn gives AI coding agents a memory: one click registers a local MCP server in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf or Gemini CLI, so they can search what you saw and heard and ask Earlyn questions, over 127.0.0.1 only.
- [For developers](https://www.earlyn.app/features/for-developers.md): Earlyn keeps the errors you hit in a terminal, an editor or a local page together with what fixed them, and hands your coding agent the context of a project from your own recent work, so neither of you solves the same problem twice.
- [Open loops](https://www.earlyn.app/features/open-loops.md): Every meeting summary's decisions and action items land in one place: who promised what, by when, and whether it is done. Customer requests are grouped by how often they come up, and a weekly update writes itself from what really happened.
- [Screen recordings](https://www.earlyn.app/features/screen-recordings.md): Earlyn records the whole screen, one window or an area you drag, with your voice and the Mac's sound. Every recording stays on your Mac, and when you want to share one it goes to your own private library on record.earlyn.app, where only the people you invite can watch it.
- [Privacy and security](https://www.earlyn.app/features/privacy.md): Earlyn keeps everything it records on your Mac: the database is encrypted with SQLCipher, screen pictures are sealed with AES-GCM, the keys stay in your keychain, and the app makes no network request unless you start one.

### Research

- [Research](https://www.earlyn.app/research.md): These pages publish the measurements behind Earlyn's design decisions, with the method, the caveats and the data, so you can check the numbers we quote.
- [Turkish speech-to-text on a Mac](https://www.earlyn.app/research/turkish-meeting-transcription.md): On 60 Turkish clips from Google's FLEURS test set, Whisper large-v3-turbo transcribed with an 8.2% word error rate against 10.9% for Qwen3-ASR 1.7B, both running locally on an Apple M2 Mac with 8 GB of memory.
- [How much disk screen memory takes](https://www.earlyn.app/research/screen-memory-storage.md): At Earlyn's default 2,560-pixel capture, a busy hour of screen memory takes about 9 MB, which is around 160 stored moments at roughly 52 KB of picture and 4.5 KB of text each, and a still screen stores nothing.
- [Local search by meaning](https://www.earlyn.app/research/local-semantic-search.md): In Earlyn's test of 12 search-by-meaning queries in English and Turkish, EmbeddingGemma 300M and bge-m3 ranked the right document first all 12 times, Apple's NLContextualEmbedding 4 times, and a converted multilingual-e5-small model once.

### Compare

- [Compare](https://www.earlyn.app/alternatives.md): Earlyn is a private screen and meeting memory for Mac; these pages compare it with Rewind and Microsoft Recall using facts from their makers and the press, linked and dated.
- [Rewind AI alternative](https://www.earlyn.app/alternatives/rewind-ai.md): Earlyn is a Mac app that does what Rewind did, a private and searchable memory of your screen and meetings, and it keeps working on your Mac after the Rewind app stopped capturing on 19 December 2025.
- [Microsoft Recall for Mac](https://www.earlyn.app/alternatives/microsoft-recall.md): Microsoft Recall is a Windows 11 feature for Copilot+ PCs; Earlyn is the closest thing on a Mac, a screen memory that runs on Apple Silicon and keeps everything on the device.

### More

- [Glossary](https://www.earlyn.app/glossary.md): This glossary defines the terms used across Earlyn's site and app, from screen memory and OCR to MCP, speaker diarization and word error rate, in one sentence each.
- [About](https://www.earlyn.app/about.md): Earlyn is a macOS app made by an independent developer that gives you a private, searchable memory of your screen and meetings; earlyn.app is its only website.
- [Docs](https://www.earlyn.app/docs): setup, permissions, Claude Code, Codex, the local API and license keys.