What is rem?
An open source approach to locally record and enable searching everything you view on your Mac.
Verified product facts
- Type
- Mac utilityEditorially reviewed
- Platform
- macOS
- Pricing
- Open sourceDeveloper-stated
- Open source
- Yes
- Relationship to Nuanyue
- Third-party product — not published by NuanyueEditorially reviewed
- Licence
- MIT
- Current version
- 0.1.14Developer-stated
- Official website
- github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem
Last updated . Facts marked developer-stated come from the developer and are not independently confirmed; editorially reviewed marks a Nuanyue judgement.
Key features
What rem does at a glance.
[x] Automatically take a screenshot every 2 seconds, recognizing all text, using an efficient approach in terms of space and energy
[x] Go back
In time (full-screen scrubber of everything you've viewed)
[x] Copy text
From back in time
[x] Search everything you've viewed
With keyword search (and filter by application)
[x] Easily grab recent context
For use with LLMs
[x] Intel build (please help test!)
Overview
An open source approach to locally record and enable searching everything you view on your Mac.
rem runs on macOS and is listed on Nuanyue in the utilities category.
Links
Sources
Facts on this page are checked against the sources below. Last updated .
- rem — official websiteGrade B
- rem — source repositoryGrade D



