Every AI platform keeps your conversation history locked inside its own walled garden. Switch from ChatGPT to Claude mid-project, and you start from scratch. A new Chrome extension called Recall takes a simple approach to this problem: it watches your AI conversations in the background and saves them to your local filesystem as structured data.
Recall works with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Once installed, it monitors your chat sessions, waits for responses to finish generating, then writes the full exchange to your machine. No account creation, no cloud sync, no backend server. The conversations land on your hard drive and stay there.
The local-first design is the most interesting part. In a category filling up with AI memory tools that want you to create yet another account and trust yet another startup with your data, Recall skips all of that. Your files sit on your computer in a structured format you can read, search, or pipe into other tools. The developer has mentioned planned integrations with Obsidian and Notion, plus semantic search across saved chats, but for now the core pitch is deliberately minimal: capture everything, store it locally, own your data.
This puts Recall in a growing category alongside tools like AI Context Flow, OpenMemory, myNeutron, and MemoryPlugin, all trying to solve the same fundamental limitation of AI chatbots: they forget everything between sessions. The approaches vary from cloud-synced memory layers to local-only storage, but the underlying frustration is universal. Anyone juggling two or three AI tools daily knows the pain of re-explaining project context from scratch.
Recall is free and early-stage. The extension is available on the Chrome Web Store now, though users should expect rough edges typical of a new indie project. For anyone who has lost a useful AI response because they could not find it three days later, even a basic local archive solves a real problem.