{"slug": "rewisp-an-ambient-screen-memory-for-macos-that-never-writes-images-to-disk", "title": "Rewisp – An ambient screen memory for macOS that never writes images to disk", "summary": "Rewisp, a new macOS app, captures screen content as text-only memories without saving screenshots to disk, using on-device processing and optional AI models like Gemini and Claude to answer questions about past screen activity. The app, available for macOS 15+ on Apple Silicon, emphasizes privacy by never writing images or sending data to the cloud.", "body_md": "Every glimpse of your screen becomes a **wisp** — text only, kept on this Mac. Ask anything later and Rewisp revisits them for you. Like Spotlight — for your past.\n\nmacOS 15+ · Apple Silicon · summon anywhere with `⌘⇧Space`\n\nNo screenshots below — these are live, running in your browser. The real app does the same on your Mac.\n\n⌘⇧Space on a signup page. Reads every field, fills from your saved details. Never passwords or cards — and never submits.\n\nFree on-device model answers first. If it comes up thin, Rewisp quietly escalates to Gemini, then Claude — you just see the good answer.\n\nAt 9 PM: what happened, what's still open, what it learned about you. Every fact waits for your approval before it's kept.\n\nMinutes per app, computed locally from what you actually looked at. No timers to start, nothing sent anywhere.\n\nActual screenshots — the whole thing runs today.\n\n**Hit ⌘⇧Space, ask anything.** Answered on-device in seconds, in plain English — synthesized from everything you saw.\n\n**A real app behind it.** Pick your engine chain, schedule the digest, manage the Vault. No API key, ever.\n\nMost \"memory\" apps record your screen to the cloud. Rewisp was built the opposite way — the pixels are gone before anything is saved.\n\nSmart triggers — switching apps, opening a page, settling after a scroll — catch a **wisp** of the moment. No constant recording.\n\nApple's Vision framework turns each wisp into text on-device. The screenshot is never saved — only what it said.\n\nHit ⌘⇧Space and ask in plain English. Full-text search finds the moment; a model writes the answer with source and time.\n\nReads 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.\n\nApple on-device, a bundled local model, Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT. Set an order — it falls through to the next whenever one comes up short.\n\nAt 9 PM, one summary of your day: what happened, what's unfinished, what it learned about you — every fact needs your approval.\n\nDrop in your resume, addresses, standard answers. Locked behind your fingerprint, treated as trusted truth, filled back to you instantly.\n\nOn first launch it checks your Mac and offers a local model that fits — unlimited, offline, private. Or skip it and stay fully on-device.\n\nSee where the day actually went — minutes per app, computed locally from what you looked at. No timers, no upload.\n\nA plain markdown file of what it knows. Approve, edit, or delete any line. It never confirms anything on its own.\n\nSwiftUI menu bar app, global hotkeys, a Spotlight-style panel that fades in and grows with the answer. No Electron.\n\nUpdates arrive through GitHub Releases — the app checks daily and offers them with one click.\n\nFree and open source · MIT · `⌘⇧Space` to summon", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rewisp-an-ambient-screen-memory-for-macos-that-never-writes-images-to-disk", "canonical_source": "https://yashmitb.github.io/Rewisp/", "published_at": "2026-07-13 06:12:21+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-13 07:05:43.309208+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-products", "artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Rewisp", "Apple", "Gemini", "Claude", "ChatGPT", "GitHub"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rewisp-an-ambient-screen-memory-for-macos-that-never-writes-images-to-disk", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rewisp-an-ambient-screen-memory-for-macos-that-never-writes-images-to-disk.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rewisp-an-ambient-screen-memory-for-macos-that-never-writes-images-to-disk.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rewisp-an-ambient-screen-memory-for-macos-that-never-writes-images-to-disk.jsonld"}}