eternal memory for your Mac.

ZBS Eye is a macOS app that continuously records everything you see and hear — your screen and your audio — and lets you find any moment in seconds. It runs entirely on your machine: no cloud, no account, no subscription, no telemetry.

it sees everything. it remembers everything. and it all stays with you.

● shipped & notarized · Developer ID build · macOS 15+ · Apple Silicon · 100% local · not in the Mac App Store (by design)

// what it is

A quiet, always-on memory of your work at the computer. Everything below runs on-device — nothing leaves the Mac.

Screen captureAccessibility text where apps expose it (accurate, battery-friendly) + OCR where they don't. Frames in HEIC with perceptual-hash dedup — identical screens aren't stored twice. Adaptive per app, decided at runtime.
Audio + transcriptionSystem audio (calls, meetings, video) and microphone → on-device transcription (SFSpeech), with voice-activity detection — silence and music aren't transcribed.
Hybrid searchFull-text (FTS5) + semantic (multilingual-e5, 384-dim) fused via RRF. Cross-lingual: search in one language, find a moment in another.
TimelineScrub through time with activity density, a 1×/2×/4× player, and day/hour/10-minute zoom. Frames served back as images, transcripts as text.
Ask your memoryAsk a question → hybrid search finds the fragments → a local LLM answers with citations you can click to jump on the timeline. A local equivalent of "Ask Rewind" — the model is whatever you've loaded in LM Studio or Ollama.
CartographerA daily on-device insight: a local LLM reads the day's activity — top apps, context switches, topics — and gives 2–3 concrete observations. On-device only.
Access for AI agentsA local REST API (127.0.0.1, Bearer token) plus MCP over stdio, so your own LLMs and agents can work with your memory as a tool. Zero egress.
Storage you ownKept forever by default. Move it to an external SSD in one click. Optional iCloud backup as a compressed snapshot (the live database never leaves the disk). Import previous history; daily summary and export.
Privacy controlsPause per app, exclude apps, delete by time range. The app never records itself. Everything stays on the device.

the server listens only on 127.0.0.1; everything except a health check sits behind a Bearer token in the Keychain. there is no outbound traffic to disable — there is none.

// why it matters

Your Mac already sees everything you do. ZBS Eye is the part that remembers it — and keeps it.

A scrubbable, searchable, ask-able memory of your screen and your calls that lives entirely on your machine. No cloud to trust, no account to create, no subscription to renew, no telemetry to opt out of.

The category leader got acquired and gutted; the alternatives went to $25–50/mo plus a mandatory cloud — where the most personal thing you have, the record of what you actually do, goes. ZBS Eye takes the same niche from the opposite stance: everything stays with you.

it sees everything. it remembers everything. and it all stays with you.

// install — the honest version

ZBS Eye is not in the Mac App Store — and can't be. Reading other apps' screens (cross-app Accessibility) and a "record everything" profile don't fit the App Sandbox the App Store requires. So you install it the way you'd install any tool you actually trust: read the source, then build it.

ask your agent to install it

for your agent — paste this, it reads the source and does the rest

Hi. I want to install ZBS Eye on this Mac. Please verify it's safe first:
https://github.com/zbs-gg/eye

ZBS Eye is a local-first "eternal memory" for macOS: it continuously records
screen + audio on-device, makes them searchable, and never goes to a cloud
(the server listens only on 127.0.0.1, behind a Bearer token).

1. Read README.md, docs/ABOUT.md, AGENTS.md and BUILD.md (written for you).
2. Confirm the trust boundary: zero egress, no account, no subscription, no
   telemetry; Hardened Runtime; everything stays on this machine.
3. Explain in plain words what it captures, where it stores it, and how to
   pause it, delete a time range, or wipe it.
4. Requirements: macOS 15+, Apple Silicon, Xcode toolchain. For a notarized
   build: a Developer ID certificate + a notarytool profile (docs/NOTARIZE.md).
   No paid account? A self-signed dev build works (scripts/make-signing-cert.sh).
5. Ask me for confirmation.
6. After confirmation, build the notarized app:
   bash scripts/build-notarized.sh
   then unzip dist/ZBSEye-notarized-*.zip into /Applications and launch it
   with a double-click.
7. Walk me through granting Screen Recording + Accessibility (and optionally
   Microphone) once.

Important: it is NOT in the Mac App Store by design (cross-app Accessibility
+ record-everything don't fit the App Sandbox). Stop and explain if anything
looks unsafe.

read the source first · nothing is hidden

or build it yourself

build the notarized app (one-time cert setup in docs/NOTARIZE.md)

bash scripts/build-notarized.sh

unzip dist/ZBSEye-notarized-*.zip into /Applications
double-click to launch — Gatekeeper passes it, even offline (the ticket is stapled)
grant Screen Recording + Accessibility once (optionally Microphone)
the signature is stable: rebuilds do NOT reset permissions

● notarized Developer ID · macOS 15+ · Apple Silicon · Xcode toolchain · source: github.com/zbs-gg/eye

the notarized build double-clicks to launch; a self-signed dev build prompts “Open Anyway” once — either way it's outside the App Store, not malware. want certainty? the source is right there; have your own agent do the security review before it builds anything.

your memory. your machine. nothing leaves.

eternal memory for your Mac.eternal memory for your Mac.

// what it is// what it is