A memory that belongs to you.
Earlyn is a macOS app made by an independent developer that gives you a private, searchable memory of your screen and meetings; earlyn.app is its only website.
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What Earlyn is
A menu bar app for macOS 14 and later on Apple Silicon. It remembers what you see and hear on your Mac, lets you search and rewind it, transcribes meetings, and answers questions about your own history, all on the Mac. Meetings are free after a 7-day trial; screen memory is a Pro plan, monthly or yearly.
What Earlyn is not
- Not a cloud service: there is no Earlyn server that stores or processes your memory.
- Not affiliated with Rewind, Limitless, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, OpenAI or Anthropic. Their names appear on this site only to describe compatibility or alternatives.
- Not a monitoring tool for employers. It is made for one person to remember their own work.
How we write this site
- Every number comes from a measurement we made or a source we link, with the date. The research pages show the method.
- We do not publish reviews, logos or customer counts we cannot show.
- Facts about other products come from their makers or from news reports, linked and dated.
Contact
Questions, support and privacy requests: hello@earlyn.app.
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- Privacy and securityPrivacy and securityEarlyn keeps everything it records on your Mac: the database is encrypted with SQLCipher, screen pictures are sealed with AES-GCM, the keys stay in your keychain, and the app makes no network request unless you start one.
- Changelog
- Research · September 2026How much disk screen memory takesAt Earlyn's default 2,560-pixel capture, a busy hour of screen memory takes about 9 MB, which is around 160 stored moments at roughly 52 KB of picture and 4.5 KB of text each, and a still screen stores nothing.