RewindOS – Searchable screen history for Linux local

1. rewindos

   1 1 51 9.7 Rust

   A private, open-source alternative to Windows Recall — for Linux. Captures your screen, OCRs it, and makes everything you've seen instantly searchable. 100% local, no cloud.

   

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3. activitywatch

   2 121 18,883 9.0 Python

   The best free and open-source automated time tracker. Cross-platform, extensible, privacy-focused.

   

   Hi HN. RewindOS captures your screen every few seconds, OCRs it, and makes everything you've ever seen instantly searchable — all 100% local. No cloud, no account, no telemetry. MIT-licensed, and built specifically for Linux/Wayland.

   I started out using [ActivityWatch](https://activitywatch.net/), which is great at what it does — but it tracks how much time you spend in each app, not what you actually saw. It could tell me I spent 40 minutes in Firefox; it couldn't help me find the doc I had open, the error message I skimmed past, or the paragraph I read three days ago. I wanted actual recall — searchable content, not time buckets — and nothing on Linux did that. (Closest references are Windows Recall and the late Rewind.ai, but both were closed-source and never came to Linux.)

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4. screenpipe

   3 18 21,556 10.0 Rust

   YC (S26) | Open Computer History | Record your screen continuously locally and provide context to your agents (Claude, Codex, Openclaw, Hermes, Runner...)

   

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