There's no Microsoft Recall for Mac. Mnema is the Mac equivalent.

// the short answer

Is there a Microsoft Recall for Mac?

No. Recall is a Windows 11 feature exclusive to Copilot+ PCs — it needs an NPU-equipped machine, where it periodically snapshots your screen and makes those snapshots searchable. Apple ships nothing equivalent on macOS: no built-in screen history, no "scroll back through your day." If you want that on a Mac, it has to come from a third-party app.

// the equivalent

What Mnema does on your Mac.

Mnema covers Recall's promise — and goes further, because it also hears what Recall only sees.

• [capture]

  Continuous capture

  Mnema records your screen, audio, and activity into a private personal record — the same always-on snapshot idea Recall promises, running natively on macOS.

• [search]

  Search everything you've seen

  Text is read from your screen on-device (OCR) and audio is transcribed locally, so you can search anything that ever crossed your screen or your meetings.

• [timeline]

  Scrub the timeline

  Rewind through your own history like a video — jump to the exact moment you half-remember and see it again.

• [ask]

  Ask AI about your history

  Ask questions in plain language and get answers grounded in your own record. Local AI agents can get read-only, brokered access too.

// privacy

Private by construction, not by patch.

Recall drew heavy criticism at its 2024 launch for storing screen snapshots insecurely. Microsoft delayed it and reworked the design — it's now opt-in, gated behind Windows Hello, and encrypted. Fair enough; the concerns were addressed after the fact.

Mnema starts from the other end. Capture, text extraction, transcription, and search all run on your Mac — no account, no servers, no telemetry, no Mnema cloud to send anything to. Your record is encrypted at rest, secrets like passwords and keys are auto-redacted from searchable text, and you hold every control: keep history forever or auto-delete after 7, 14, or 30 days, exclude any app from recording, and wipe recent capture in one click.

// side by side

Recall, Mnema, and the open-source options.

Competitor details are kept deliberately general — check each project for current specifics.

// questions

Common questions.

Does Apple have a Recall feature?

No. macOS ships nothing equivalent to Windows Recall. Spotlight searches your files, but nothing built into macOS records what was on your screen or lets you search it later. Mnema is a third-party Mac app that fills exactly that gap.

Is Mnema private?

Yes. Capture, text extraction, transcription, and search all run on your Mac — no account, no servers, no telemetry, and no Mnema cloud to send anything to. Your record is encrypted at rest, secrets like passwords and keys are auto-redacted, you choose how long history is kept, and you can exclude apps or delete recent capture in one click.

Does Mnema work on Intel Macs?

Not today. Mnema currently ships builds for Apple Silicon Macs only — there is no Intel build.