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CLUSTER ACTIVITY-LOCAL-DESKTOP · 14 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-08-12

Mac activity timeline apps

This cluster consists of macOS desktop apps that record on-screen activity, audio, or app usage into a private, locally stored timeline, often using AI to classify or answer questions about past work. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from: there are no pre-index entries, so it either predates the index or its members are undated. Traction is led by openhistory (105 stars), followed by afterray (27 stars) and desklore (4 stars).

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2026: 5SEP 2026: 5OCT 2026: 4
AUG 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 11 unlabelled

Operator · 9 hobby · 2 indie · 3 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 14 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01openhistory108★1 moliveindieDesktop application that records and indexes a private, searchable timeline of work activity for personal reference and local AI agents.
  2. 02afterray29★1 moliveMac app that records screen, audio, and app activity into a local searchable timeline for recalling past work.
  3. 03desklore4★1 molivehobbyPersonal activity tracker for macOS that records computer usage history locally with semantic event logs.
  4. 04SessionSifu2★1 molivehand-codedhobbyDesktop application that restores application sessions and provides a private local recall timeline with OCR capability across multiple operating systems.
  5. 05recapsy1★22 days—indieDesktop app that automatically records on-screen activity on a Mac and answers questions about past work from local memory.
  6. 06yakitori0★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyNative macOS app that tracks writing sessions and statistics across applications without recording the content of the writing.
  7. 07ALO0★6 days—macOS app that records a user's digital activity into a local, searchable memory archive for private personal recall.
  8. 08Zeitspur0★10 dayslivehobbyLocal Windows app that records screen activity with OCR into an encrypted searchable timeline and answers questions about past activity.
  9. 09constant-watch0★16 dayslivehobbyDesktop app that continuously records screen activity, extracts text from what was shown, and builds a local daily journal for finding past context.
  10. 10TimeLens0★5 days—hobbyDesktop app that continuously records screen activity and enables offline full-text search through past screen captures.
  11. 11phase-log0★9 days—hobbymacOS app that logs personal growth by areas, phases, and days, storing all data locally.
  12. 12Memento2★1 mo—hobbymacOS app that periodically screenshots the desktop, uses AI to classify current activity, and builds a local searchable timeline of daily activity.
  13. 13computer-history0★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyDesktop app that records computer activity on macOS and lets users search, ask questions, and recall past work from a local history.
  14. 14braincache-os0★28 days—Privacy-first activity recorder for macOS that watches work, creates effort metrics from logs, and turns them into reusable agent skills.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.