Search everything you’ve seen
on your Mac.
Hindsight saves your screen and reads every word, right on your Mac. Type one you remember and go straight back to it.
Notarized by Apple · macOS 14 or later · Nothing leaves your Mac
Portland, OR 97209
Northbeam Labs
Please pay this invoice within 14 days. Bank details are on the second page of the contract. Thank you for working with us.
Hi Sam,
Our finance team is closing the books today. Could you resend the September invoice from Lumen Studio? We need it within the hour.
Thanks,
Emma
Portland, OR 97209
Northbeam Labs
Please pay this invoice within 14 days. Bank details are on the second page of the contract. Thank you for working with us.
Press Control-Option-Space from any app. The names and numbers in this demo are made up.
Things you can find again
If it was on your screen, it's in your history. One word of it is enough.
- The tracking number from an email you already archived.
- The price on a booking site you closed last night.
- What Maya said about the deadline in a group chat.
- The error in Terminal before you restarted.
- A recipe from a tab you never bookmarked.
- The address a friend sent somewhere, in some app.
What Hindsight can do
It runs quietly in your menu bar. When you need something back, it's one shortcut away.
One shortcut, anywhere
Press Control-Option-Space and search opens over whatever you're doing.
Salty, bright and ready before the water’s even properly boiling. The miso melts into the butter and coats every strand.
- 200 g spaghetti
- 2 tbsp white miso
- 40 g butter
- 1 lemon
- Black pepper
- A few chives
- 1Cook the spaghetti in salted water, 1 minute short of the packet time.
- 2Melt the butter, whisk in the miso and a splash of pasta water.
- 3Toss with the pasta, then the lemon zest, juice and pepper.
See the whole moment
Open a result to see your screen as it was, then step back or forward in time.
Finds it as you type
Results show up with every letter. Half a word is usually enough.
Cleans up after itself
It keeps 30 days or 20 GB, whichever comes first. A busy day takes about 500 MB.
Private by design. Nothing leaves your Mac.
Card numbers and one-time codes are blacked out before a screen is saved. This is a checkout, the way your history keeps it.
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- Never leaves your Mac
- Your history is stored encrypted on your Mac. No account, no cloud. The only thing Hindsight sends is a licence check.
- Private things are skipped
- Private browser windows, password managers and any app you choose are never saved.
- Locked with Touch ID
- Search asks for Touch ID or your password, and locks again when your Mac does.
- Pause or delete any time
- Right from the menu bar. macOS shows a purple dot whenever Hindsight is saving.
Pay once. Keep it.
No subscription. Every update included.
- Up to 3 of your Macs
- Every future update
- No subscription, no account
- Move to a new Mac any time
Secure checkout · macOS 14 or later
Questions people ask first
What is Hindsight?+
Hindsight is a Mac app that keeps a searchable history of your screen. It takes a picture when your screen changes, reads the words in it on your Mac, and lets you search any word to go back to the moment you saw it. It costs $12 once and works on macOS 14 or later.
How is it different from Spotlight?+
Spotlight finds files you saved. Hindsight finds things you only saw: a message in a chat, a page you closed, a line in a video call or a PDF you skimmed. If it was on your screen, you can search it, even if it was never saved anywhere.
Which apps does it work with?+
All of them. Hindsight reads what's on screen, so it works with browsers, Mail, Messages, Slack, WhatsApp, PDFs, slides, code editors and video calls, with nothing to set up per app.
Does anything leave my Mac?+
No. The pictures, the text and the search all live on your Mac. Hindsight goes online now and then to check your licence key, and that's all.
How much space does it use?+
About 400 to 600 MB on a busy day. Anything older than 30 days is deleted, and it never goes past 20 GB. You can change both in Settings.
Will it slow my Mac down?+
It only takes a picture when something on screen changed, and it reads the text in the background at low priority. On a MacBook Air that's usually a few percent of one CPU core.
Is Hindsight a Rewind alternative?+
For the screen part, yes. Rewind stopped recording in December 2025, after Meta bought the company behind it. Hindsight saves and searches your screen the way Rewind did, all on your Mac, for $12 once. It doesn't record audio.
Why is there a purple dot in my menu bar?+
That's macOS telling you an app can see your screen. It shows whenever Hindsight is saving, so you can always tell.
Can I keep some apps out?+
Yes. Password managers are left out from the start. Add any other app in Settings and its windows are cut out of every picture, even when another app is in front.
Does it work with more than one display?+
Yes. It saves your main display by default. Choose All displays in Settings to save every screen you have connected.
Does it work on Intel Macs?+
Yes. Hindsight runs on Apple silicon and Intel Macs with macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
Is there a free trial?+
No. Hindsight is $12 once, and every update after that is free.
Stop searching for things you’ve already seen.
$12 once at launch, for up to 3 of your Macs, with every update included.