The tracking number
From an email you can’t find anymore, or a site you closed.
Find anything you’ve seen on your screen — a tracking number, a recipe, an error message — just by typing a word. Private by design, and built natively for Mac.
Find it again
Your Mac keeps a light, private trace of what was on screen and reads its text on the spot. Type a word, or scroll back in time.
From an email you can’t find anymore, or a site you closed.
The one you scrolled past on Sunday, in a tab long gone.
Seen in a newsletter or a banner, just before it disappeared.
A paragraph you deleted by mistake, or a form that reset.
Its name, its price and the dates you looked at.
Retrace an install, a settings change or a purchase, step by step.
The stack trace from two days ago, before you cleared the screen.
Code you read in a review, a gist or a video.
Find the URL from a phrase you remember.
The deploy steps someone pasted in a chat, last month.
What you worked on, per app and per project — without a timer.
A local MCP server, and answers from on-device AI.
How it works
Nothing happens until you say so. The menu bar always shows whether memory is on, and pausing takes one click.
A frame is kept only when your screen changes, compressed with Apple’s hardware video encoder. It pauses when your Mac sleeps, locks or runs hot.
Press a shortcut, type a word, and land on the exact moment — with the word highlighted. Touch ID first, every time.
Privacy
We built DejaVu the way we’d want it for our own families: private by default, and honest about what it does.
No account, no cloud, no server. Your memory never leaves this Mac.
The key lives in your Mac’s secure chip, and looking back requires Touch ID.
Password fields and password managers are never kept. Private windows and banking are excluded by default.
DejaVu never uses the microphone and never logs what you type.
Pause in one click. Erase the last five minutes — or everything — just as fast.
The DejaVu app sends no analytics and no usage data. Nothing about you leaves your Mac.
A public security white paper will be published at launch.
Why DejaVu
Available worldwide, including the EU and the UK, from day one. Built in Swift on Apple’s own frameworks.
| DejaVu | ChatGPT Computer History | Screenpipe | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Available in the EU and the UK | Yes | No | Yes |
| Your data is processed only on your Mac | Yes | No | Yes |
| Logs what you type | Never | Yes | Yes |
| Native Mac app | Yes | Inside ChatGPT | No |
Based on public information as of October 2026: The Next Web (August 16, 2026) for ChatGPT Computer History, and screenpi.pe for Screenpipe. Screenpipe is a cross-platform app built with Tauri.
Coming from Rewind?
Rewind stopped recording on December 19, 2025 — two weeks earlier in Europe and the UK — and its memories couldn’t be exported. DejaVu is built so that can’t happen to you: your data is yours, with an open export, and the app keeps working without us. There are no servers to shut down.
Pricing
Every protection is free. Pro is about how far back you can look.
$0
$79once
or $9 a month
Indicative launch prices. Also coming to Setapp.
FAQ
Spyware watches you for someone else. DejaVu works only for you: you turn it on, everything stays on your Mac, there’s no account and no server, and the menu bar always shows whether it’s on. It never keeps audio, keystrokes or passwords.
A frame is kept only when your screen changes, video is compressed by Apple’s hardware encoder, and memory pauses when your Mac sleeps or runs hot. We’ll publish battery measurements from a MacBook Air before launch.
A few gigabytes a month in typical use. You choose a limit; past it, the oldest memories are removed first. Pro can archive them to an external drive.
Macs with Apple silicon and a recent version of macOS. The exact requirements will be announced with the beta.
Yes, alongside a direct version. Apple’s rules limit how apps read text from other windows, so the direct version is a little more precise.
DejaVu is a personal tool. Check with your employer first, and exclude any app you shouldn’t keep a memory of.
The private beta opens first to people on the waitlist. We’ll email you once when it’s ready — that’s it.
Join the waitlist for the private beta and the $59 launch price.