Local, privacy-first Microsoft Recall alternative runs on Gemma 4
ScreenMind is a tool that continuously records your screen activity so you can later search it or ask questions about it in a chat, built with privacy as the top priority. Instead of sending data to the cloud, it runs Gemma 4 — one of the few models that handles vision, audio, and reasoning together — locally on the machine, so data never leaves the device.
It tracks how much time you spend on each app throughout the day, lets you search screenshots by any text that appeared on screen, and answers questions like "what did Alex text me on Discord" or "did I get an email from Microsoft" by searching past screen history. can be written in plain English for non-coders or in Python for developers, such as sending a full daily activity report to Slack via .
A single hotkey lets you save a voice memo along with a screenshot, and the tool automatically detects meetings to transcribe and summarize them. The hardest technical challenge was keeping the tool running continuously in the background, since the chat feature requires running a that keeps consuming significant compute resources.
Key points
- Runs Gemma 4 locally so screen data never leaves the device
- Tracks app usage time, searches screenshots by on-screen text, and answers questions about past screen history
- can be written in plain English or Python, including sending daily reports to Slack via
- Hotkey-triggered voice memos plus automatic meeting detection with and summary
- Keeping the running continuously in the background was the main technical challenge due to heavy compute usage