Open source alternatives to Windows Recall
One project on starwire does the same job. Ranked by how much of what Windows Recall does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.
What Windows Recall does
- Searchable history of screen activitycore
- Find past content by descriptioncore
- Periodic screen snapshots
- Text and image recognition
- Timeline browsing
- Privacy filters and exclusions
- Local on-device storage
Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this
| Project | Covers | Stars | Commits, 12 weeks | Last release | Closed vs opened | Setup | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 WindrecorderRecords screen activity and makes it searchable by OCR text and image descriptions |
Replaces it100% | 4.0k+1 | None | Too few | Install like an app | GPL-2.0 | |
Covers everything on the checklist.See the evidence
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