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Searchable screen history for Linux - fully private & local
RewindOS captures your screen, OCRs it, and makes everything you've ever seen instantly searchable — all 100% on your machine. No cloud, no account, no telemetry. Open-source (MIT), built for Linux/Wayland. Full-text + optional semantic search, a timelapse rewind view, and an Ask-AI mode that answers from your own history with citations.
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I built RewindOS because I wanted "what was that thing I saw last Tuesday?" to be answerable — on Linux, without sending my screen to anyone's cloud.
I'd been using ActivityWatch, but it tracks *time per app*, not *what you actually saw*, so it couldn't help with recall. Everything here runs locally: capture (Wayland portal + PipeWire), OCR (Tesseract), search (SQLite FTS5), and optional AI via local Ollama. And its fully open source and MIT Licensed :)
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“Searchable screen history for Linux - fully private & local”
GitHub was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #160 on the daily leaderboard. RewindOS captures your screen, OCRs it, and makes everything you've ever seen instantly searchable — all 100% on your machine. No cloud, no account, no telemetry. Open-source (MIT), built for Linux/Wayland. Full-text + optional semantic search, a timelapse rewind view, and an Ask-AI mode that answers from your own history with citations.
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