DesktopRecord
- macOS
A DVR for your desktop — continuously captures your screen with OCR-powered search and app analytics

DesktopRecord automatically screenshots your desktop throughout the day and makes everything searchable with Apple's Vision framework OCR. Browse a visual timeline of your work, search for any text that ever appeared on screen, view app usage analytics with pie charts and weekly trends, and set privacy controls to exclude specific apps or time periods. Configurable data retention keeps storage in check. All processing stays local on your Mac.
What it does
Who this is for
Knowledge workers who want to search for anything they've seen on screen.
Specs
- Platform
- macOS
- Built With
- Swift & SwiftUI
- Requires
- macOS 13+
- Telemetry
- None
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