Screen recording that understands content
Traditional screen recorders create video files. screenpipe creates searchable, AI-powered memory. Find any moment with natural language.
Quick answer
AI-powered screen recording that makes everything searchable. screenpipe records your screen 24/7 and lets you find anything with natural language search.
See it in action
Screen recordings are useless
Recording your screen doesn't help if you can't find anything.
Hours of video with no way to search
Scrubbing through footage to find one moment
No text search - just visual scanning
Large files that fill up your drive
Recordings are write-only - never reviewed
Searchable screen recording
screenpipe records your screen, extracts text via accessibility APIs (OCR fallback), transcribes audio, and indexes everything. Search in natural language, find any moment instantly.
Text extraction
Every word on screen is extracted and indexed. Search for any text you've seen.
Audio transcription
All audio is transcribed automatically. Search meetings, videos, voice notes.
Natural language search
Ask 'that API documentation I read yesterday' - not exact keyword matching.
AI-powered answers
Don't just find moments - ask questions and get answers from your recordings.
How it works
Record everything
screenpipe captures your screen and audio continuously with minimal resource usage.
Automatic indexing
Accessibility APIs extract text from apps (OCR as fallback), speech-to-text transcribes audio, everything gets indexed.
Search and find
Natural language search across all recordings. Jump directly to any moment.
Key benefits
Frequently asked questions
Regular screen recorders create video files. screenpipe creates a searchable database. Every screen change is captured and text is extracted, every audio clip is transcribed. You can find any moment with text search or natural language queries.
About 20GB per month with default settings. screenpipe uses efficient compression and you can configure retention periods based on your storage availability.
Yes. If you watched a YouTube video or any video content, screenpipe captures the frames and extracts text. You can search for text that appeared in videos.
No. screenpipe uses hardware-accelerated encoding and typically uses less than 1% CPU. It's designed to run 24/7 without impacting your work.