Screenpipe alternatives

Local-first 24/7 screen and audio recorder that indexes what you see/hear and exposes it as context/memory to AI agents (MCP, API); open-source Rewind/Recall alternative. Y Combinator S26 Full Screenpipe record →

  1. 1 AgentOps Memory observability & monitoring

    same storage (relational) · same retrieval (exact-match) · same memory unit (episode)

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 5.8k released 2025-08-29 MIT (SDK) Compare with Screenpipe →

  2. 2 Granola Voice-first / wearable AI memory

    same storage (file) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (episode)

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Screenpipe →

  3. 3 LangSmith Memory observability & monitoring

    same storage (relational) · same retrieval (exact-match) · same memory unit (episode)

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ released 2026-10-16 Compare with Screenpipe →

  4. 4 Plaud NotePin Voice-first / wearable AI memory

    same storage (file) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (episode)

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Screenpipe →

  5. 5 MemWal (now Walrus Memory) Dedicated memory layers ⚠ renamed — now Walrus Memory

    same retrieval (exact-match) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (episode)

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed — MCP ? ★ 117 Apache-2.0 Compare with Screenpipe →

  6. 6 Khanmigo Vertical / domain-specific AI memory

    same storage (relational) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (episode)

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ? Compare with Screenpipe →

  7. 7 SchoolAI Vertical / domain-specific AI memory

    same storage (relational) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (episode)

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed — MCP ? Compare with Screenpipe →

  8. 8 Langfuse Memory observability & monitoring ⚠ acquired — acquired by ClickHouse

    same storage (relational) · same retrieval (exact-match) · same memory unit (episode)

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 36k MIT (core; ee/ directories under separate… Compare with Screenpipe →

Ranked by shared memory design (storage, retrieval, conflict handling, memory unit), same section and shared must-haves (open source, self-hosting, MCP), with adoption as a tie-breaker. ✓ confirmed · — no · ? not in the catalog yet. Want picks for your own requirements? Use the chooser. Checking a whole project? Check your stack.