Rewisp – An ambient screen memory for macOS that never writes images to disk

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Rewisp — an ambient memory for your Mac

Watch it work

Four things it does,<br>while you do nothing.

No screenshots below — these are live, running in your browser. The real app does the same on your Mac.

Autofill

Full name

Vault ✓

Email

Vault ✓

Address

Vault ✓

Password<br>•••••••• — never filled<br>skipped

Fills any form from your Vault

⌘⇧Space on a signup page. Reads every field, fills from your saved details. Never passwords or cards — and never submits.

Smart routing

◍Apple on-devicetries first

✦Geminifree · fast

✳Claudedeepest

Always the best answer available

Free on-device model answers first. If it comes up thin, Rewisp quietly escalates to Gemini, then Claude — you just see the good answer.

9 PM digest

SummaryShipped the v0.7 panel animation , tuned the on-device prompt, one Calc III quiz.

UnfinishedChapter 4 problem set — opened, not submitted.

LearnedYou prefer Gemini for daily questions. Approve?

One quiet summary a day

At 9 PM: what happened, what's still open, what it learned about you. Every fact waits for your approval before it's kept.

Where the day went

Xcode3h 10m

Chrome2h 05m

Canvas1h 08m

YouTube41m

Time, honestly

Minutes per app, computed locally from what you actually looked at. No timers to start, nothing sent anywhere.

The real thing

Not a mockup.

Actual screenshots — the whole thing runs today.

Hit ⌘⇧Space, ask anything. Answered on-device in seconds, in plain English — synthesized from everything you saw.

A real app behind it. Pick your engine chain, schedule the digest, manage the Vault. No API key, ever.

Private by construction

It remembers everything.<br>It shares nothing.

Most "memory" apps record your screen to the cloud. Rewisp was built the opposite way — the pixels are gone before anything is saved.

✓Screenshots never touch disk. Text is extracted in memory; the image is discarded instantly.

✓Everything stays local. One SQLite file in your home folder, readable only by you.

✓Answers can stay on-device. Run questions on Apple's built-in or a local model — nothing leaves the Mac. Prefer Claude or Gemini for sharper answers? Only the prompt is sent, only when you ask.

✓Vault locked with Touch ID. Your resume, addresses, and answers sit behind a fingerprint. Credentials are refused at the door.

✓Kill list is absolute. Messages, password managers, banking, private windows: capture fully pauses.

✓Forget button. Delete the last 10 minutes with one click. Everything expires after 6 months.

How it works

Three quiet steps.

It notices

Smart triggers — switching apps, opening a page, settling after a scroll — catch a wisp of the moment. No constant recording.

It reads

Apple's Vision framework turns each wisp into text on-device. The screenshot is never saved — only what it said.

It answers

Hit ⌘⇧Space and ask in plain English. Full-text search finds the moment; a model writes the answer with source and time.

Chrome<br>Canvas<br>Xcode<br>YouTube

1,240 wisps

Everything else

Small app. Long memory.

Fills forms for you<br>Reads every field on a signup or checkout page, pulls your details from the Vault, fills them in. Never passwords or cards, and never submits — you review and send.

Six engines, one chain<br>Apple on-device, a bundled local model, Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT. Set an order — it falls through to the next whenever one comes up short.

Nightly digest<br>At 9 PM, one summary of your day: what happened, what's unfinished, what it learned about you — every fact needs your approval.

Touch ID Vault<br>Drop in your resume, addresses, standard answers. Locked behind your fingerprint, treated as trusted truth, filled back to you instantly.

Runs a local model<br>On first launch it checks your Mac and offers a local model that fits — unlimited, offline, private. Or skip it and stay fully on-device.

Time, honestly<br>See where the day actually went — minutes per app, computed locally from what you looked at. No timers, no upload.

Memory you control<br>A plain markdown file of what it knows. Approve, edit, or delete any line. It never confirms anything on its own.

Native, everywhere<br>SwiftUI menu bar app, global hotkeys, a Spotlight-style panel that fades in and grows with the answer. No Electron.

Stays fresh<br>Updates arrive through GitHub Releases — the app checks daily and offers them with one click.

Stop trying to remember.<br>Start asking.

Download Rewisp<br>View source

Free and open source · MIT · ⌘⇧Space to summon

never vault device memory from model

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