screenpipe review
A searchable work-session memory layer with capture, transcription, and AI workflows.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
screenpipe is a desktop application for continuously capturing screen activity, app text, microphone audio, system audio, and meeting content. It is aimed at individual users, consultants, developers, and teams that need searchable work history for AI-assisted recall and automation. Audio is transcribed locally, captured information is indexed for search, and selected context can be shared with AI tools. The product supports macOS, Windows, Linux, and an API, with MP4 export for meetings containing synchronized screen and audio.
Pricing follows a freemium structure. The Free plan costs $0 per month and supports capture on one device, recent-work search across apps and conversations, and selected context sharing with AI tools. Basic is $250/year, displayed as approximately $21/month billed annually, adding full searchable history across apps, meetings, and audio, MCP context for AI tools, and unlimited scheduled workflows installed by the user. Business is $500/seat/year, displayed as approximately $42/seat/month billed annually, adding cross-device work-context sync, recurring workflows grounded in captured context, and a team workspace with managed seats. Enterprise adds managed deployment plus SSO, MDM, retention, device controls, and custom storage and deployment controls.
Its standout strength is the combination of continuous capture, local AI transcription, OCR fallback, speaker identification, searchable history, summaries, action-item extraction, and scheduled workflows. App, window, and URL exclusions, along with local redaction, provide controls for narrowing what is captured. Integrations include Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, Cline, Continue, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Ollama, Obsidian, Notion, Google Calendar, Slack, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams. Choose screenpipe when searchable work-session memory and AI context matter more than producing conventional recordings. Choose another tool if shareable screen recording is the primary requirement.
screenpipe pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Continuous screen, audio, and meeting capture with OCR and local transcription
- Searchable history with summaries, action items, speaker identification, and diarization
- Local API and MCP support with integrations for major AI and work tools
- Where it doesn't
- Continuous desktop capture is less suited to conventional shareable screen recording
- Business features require a paid seat-based plan
- The product is not open source
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