Find anything you've ever seen, heard, or read on your Mac.
Screengrep quietly runs in the background, capturing your screens, meetings, notifications, and clipboard. When you need to find something — a conversation from last week, a file you saw in passing, a Slack message you forgot to save — just search. It's all there. Always local, always private.
Free to start · Pro SGD 99, one-time
macOS 26 · Apple Silicon · App Store · 100% on your Mac
All your displays, captured continuously. Every word on screen is extracted and searchable.
System audio and microphone, transcribed locally in real time with 99% accuracy and speaker labels.
Notifications, clipboard history, browser URLs, calendar events, file activity. All structured, all searchable.
Apple Intelligence built in. Automatic summaries, smart tags, and natural language search. No cloud. No cost.
It works like your memory should.
Screengrep runs silently in your menu bar. You don't interact with it. You don't configure it. You just work.
Behind the scenes, it captures a snapshot of every display once per second, transcribes all audio, and collects notifications, clipboard changes, and app activity. Everything is processed locally on your Mac — your data never touches a server.
When you need to find something, hit ⌘+Shift+Space. Type what you remember. Screengrep searches across everything — screen text, meeting transcripts, notifications, clipboard history, file names — and shows you exactly when and where it happened, with a screenshot to jog your memory.
That's it. No setup, no folders, no tagging. It just remembers everything you don't.
The things you'll actually use it for.
"What did they say in that meeting?"
You were in a call with a client last Thursday. They mentioned a budget number. Or was it a deadline? You didn't write it down. With Screengrep, search "budget" and find the exact moment, with the transcript and a screenshot of what was on screen.
"I saw it somewhere but can't find it."
A colleague shared a link in Slack two weeks ago. Or was it an email? You remember seeing a chart. Search for what you remember — a name, a keyword, even just the app — and Screengrep finds it across every source.
"How much time did I spend on this project?"
You're a consultant billing by the hour, or a freelancer tracking time across clients. Screengrep knows which apps you used, which documents you opened, and how long you spent in each context. Time tracking with zero effort — no timers, no manual entry.
"Give me a summary of my day."
End of the workday. Screengrep uses Apple Intelligence to generate a summary: what you worked on, who you talked to, what decisions were made, what's still pending. Export to your notes app or just glance at it before tomorrow's standup.
"Claude, look at what I'm working on."
If you use Claude, Cursor, or other AI tools, Screengrep gives them your full screen context via MCP. Instead of copying and pasting, your AI assistant can see what you've been working on and give you help that's actually relevant.
Modules that work for you.
Screengrep captures everything in the background. Modules turn that raw data into things you can use.
Find anything instantly with a keyboard shortcut. Full-text and semantic search across all your screen text, transcripts, notifications, and clipboard. Visual timeline lets you scroll through your day like a film strip.
An AI-generated summary of your workday — what you worked on, who you met, what files you touched. Delivered at the end of the day or on your schedule. Export to Obsidian or email.
All the notifications you missed during deep work, grouped and summarized. "You had 43 notifications while focused. Here's what mattered."
Connect Screengrep to Claude, Cursor, or any AI assistant that supports MCP. Your AI can search your screen history, read meeting transcripts, and understand what you've been working on.
Automatic transcription with speaker identification and AI-generated summaries with action items. Matched to your calendar for context. Export to Obsidian, Notion, or email.
Your billable hours, tracked automatically from your actual activity. Screengrep groups your work into projects based on apps and documents. Export to CSV, PDF, or your invoicing tool.
Understand your work patterns. Deep work sessions, context switching, productivity trends. Weekly reports and AI-generated suggestions to protect your focus time.
A personal search engine for your entire digital history. Find articles, documents, and pages you saw months ago — with the screenshot, the URL, and the exact date.
Every copy-paste, with full context — what app you copied from, what was on screen, when. Search your clipboard history by content or context. Pin frequently used snippets.
Four layers of capture.
Each layer adds depth to your searchable archive.
Every connected display, captured once per second. Full resolution. Apple Vision extracts every word visible on screen — documents, web pages, chat messages, code, presentations.
System audio and microphone, transcribed continuously on your Mac. WhisperKit delivers 99% accuracy with speaker identification — you'll know who said what.
Screengrep reads directly from macOS — not just pixels. Every notification, clipboard change, browser URL, calendar event, and file activity. Structured data, perfectly accurate.
Apple Intelligence, built right in. The on-device foundation model summarizes your day, tags your captures by topic, and powers natural language search. Ask "that thing Tobias said about the budget" and find it.
Your data. Your Mac. Nobody else.
We built Screengrep with one non-negotiable principle: your data never leaves your machine.
Everything — every screenshot, every transcript, every notification — is stored locally on your Mac. There is no cloud sync, no account, no server to send your data to. The AI features run entirely on-device using Apple Intelligence. Search, transcription, and summarization all happen on your hardware.
You can exclude specific apps from capture. You can set retention limits so data is automatically deleted after the time period you choose. You can pause recording with one click — the eye in your menu bar closes, and Screengrep sleeps.
We don't have access to your data. We couldn't look at it even if we wanted to. It's yours.
One price. Forever.
- All four capture layers
- Full-text search (7-day history)
- 24-hour timeline
- Daily digest
- Notification digest
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Unlimited search history
- MCP server for AI assistants
- Meeting notes with speaker labels
- Automatic time tracking
- Focus analytics
- Knowledge base
- Clipboard history with context
- Export to Obsidian, CSV, PDF, email
brew install --cask screengrep
The Mac App Store build is sandboxed and cannot read app accessibility trees directly. For the richest text capture (terminals, IDEs, browsers), the direct or Homebrew install bundles the Accessibility Helper alongside the main app.