A local-first AI desktop assistant for macOS that captures, indexes, and recalls everything you do — completely privately. No cloud. No subscription. Try free for 7 days.
Powerful AI features that run entirely on your machine. No data leaving your device. No compromises.
Continuously captures text from your active windows using Apple Vision OCR — no cloud processing. Configurable capture modes, clipboard monitoring, and per-app exclusions for banking and passwords.
Ask questions about anything you've seen on your Mac in plain English. Semantic search with vector embeddings finds meaning, not just keywords. Full-text search delivers instant results.
Auto-detects Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, FaceTime, and more. Records mic + system audio, transcribes locally via Apple Speech or WhisperKit, and generates AI summaries.
Create and organize notes with AI summarization. Automatic daily journal generated from your activity plus morning briefings to recap yesterday and start your day.
Visual timeline of everything captured, organized by day and hour. Filter by app, time range, or search term. Delete recent history instantly for privacy — last 5, 15, 30, or 60 minutes.
Use Ollama for 100% offline local AI, or bring your own API key for Claude or OpenAI. Smart model profiling adjusts quality and speed based on model size. Your choice, always.
Set it up once, then forget about it. dArkiv runs quietly in the background so you can focus on your work.
Install dArkiv, grant screen access, and you're done. It lives in your menu bar and stays out of your way.
dArkiv remembers your screen at smart intervals, extracts text via OCR, and builds a searchable memory with vector embeddings — all stored locally in SQLite.
Hit ⌘⇧O to open dArkiv and ask anything in natural language. It searches your history, gives AI-powered answers, and even writes your daily journal.
Other screen recall tools send your data to the cloud. dArkiv does the opposite. Everything — screen captures, OCR text, vector embeddings, chat history — is encrypted with AES-256-GCM and stored locally on your machine. No accounts, no sign-ups, no telemetry, no analytics. Your data is yours alone.
Zero servers. Zero data collection. Your data stays on your device — not because we can't build a cloud, but because we believe your digital memory is nobody's business but yours.
See how dArkiv compares to cloud-based alternatives.
No subscriptions, no recurring fees. Pay once and own it.
Full access to every feature. No limits, no tiers, no upsells.
No credit card required for trial
Take back control of your screen history. Local-first, private by design, and yours forever for $19.
macOS 13 Ventura or later · Apple Silicon & Intel