Omi

People who want a genuinely open source Littlebird-class personal AI memory tool: Omi captures your screen and your conversations, transcribes in real time, and gives you an AI chat that recalls everything you've seen and heard. Pre-built desktop apps ship for macOS and Windows from GitHub Releases on a near-daily cadence (four releases in the 48 hours before this review), and a free hosted web app is available at app.omi.me with no install at all. Built by BasedHardware, a VC-backed team led by founder Nik Shevchenko that raised a $2M seed from Tim Draper, not a solo weekend project, and the only Littlebird-class candidate in this review that is both under active development and genuinely combines screen capture, audio capture, and an AI recall layer today.

You're on iOS or Android hoping for full screen-plus-audio parity with the desktop app: per a competitor comparison page (not independently confirmed against Omi's own docs, flagged as a claim rather than a verified fact), Omi's mobile apps currently record and upload audio only, with no on-phone screen capture, so screen recall is desktop-only (macOS and Windows) today. You also want a fully local, offline pipeline: even the self-hosted backend still depends on third-party cloud services (OpenAI, a speech-to-text provider, Anthropic or Gemini for chat, Pinecone, Firebase) per Omi's own backend setup docs, so there is no fully local AI option in the stack as reviewed.

Even a self-hosted deployment still routes core AI processing through third-party cloud APIs: OpenAI, a speech-to-text provider (Deepgram, Modulate, or self-hosted Parakeet), and Anthropic or Gemini for chat, per Omi's own backend setup documentation, so there is no fully local or offline AI pipeline available today, self-hosting moves where the servers run, not what they depend on. The screen-capture side of the product is also recent: Omi's original product was an audio-only wearable with roughly two years of track record, and the screen-plus-audio-plus-AI-chat framing in the current README reflects a 2026 pivot, so it carries less field testing than the audio side. A competitor's own comparison page (Screenpipe, a project already excluded from this review for relicensing to a source-available commercial license) makes the same cloud-dependency and mobile-screen-capture-gap claims; its factual framing lines up with Omi's own docs on required third-party services, but it is an adversarial marketing source and its editorial framing should be read as such, not treated as neutral reporting.