screen-recording-apps.md

App	OSS?	Supported OS	Recording Mode	Core Features	Language
OpenAdapt	✅	macOS, Windows	Intermittent	Workflow automation, remote AI	Python
Rewind	❌	macOS, Windows (soon)	Continuous - includes audio	Perfect recall (remote AI)	Swift
Perfect Memory1	❌	Windows	Intermittent2	Perfect recall (local AI)3	-
ScreenDiary4	✅	Linux	Intermittent	Perfect recall (no AI)	Python
EssentialApp5	✅	macOS	Continuous - last 5m	Coding assistant6, Perfect recall (remote AI)7	Swift
RetroClip8	❌	macOS	Continuous - last 5m	Instant replay videos9	-
ScreenMemory10	❌	macOS	Intermittent	Perfect recall (no AI)11	-
Impel12	❌	macOS	?	Productivity assistant13	-
rem14	✅	macOS	Intermittent - (2s)	Perfect recall (no AI)15	Swift

• Continous = typically means direct recording from the frame buffer
• Intermittent = typically means periodic recording i.e. screen shots at regular intervals

Notes

Footnotes

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39460445 ↩

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39460635 ↩

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39460731 ↩

4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39463016 ↩

5. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39460507 ↩

6. Coding assistant ↩

7. Perfect recall (remote AI) ↩

8. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16223929 ↩

9. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/retroclip/id1332064978?ls=1&mt=12 ↩

10. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39462856 ↩

11. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39462821 ↩

12. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39460534 ↩

13. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39460607 ↩

14. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38787892 ↩

15. https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem?tab=readme-ov-file#features ↩