A proposal, not a product.

Screenshots your AI can find.
Stored in your own GitHub.
Every answer traceable.

You take screenshots to remember things: a paper, a post, a price, a slide. Later you ask an AI about it, and either it cannot see your screenshots, or it answers without showing where the answer came from.

amem is a plan for an app that reads each screenshot on your phone, stores it in your own private GitHub repository, and lets any AI you use find it, with every answer pointing back to the original screenshot. Below we say exactly what works today and what does not exist yet.

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Who it is for

  • You take screenshots so that you can find things later.
  • You use more than one AI: Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Gemini.
  • You want your data in an account you own, and you want to check where an AI's answer came from.

If you use only Google's or Apple's assistant, their built-in screenshot features may be enough. See “How it compares”.

What it would do

Getting screenshots in

  • Open the app, and the screenshots you took since last time are imported.
  • Or share a screenshot to amem from the share sheet, or set a Back Tap shortcut.
  • An iPhone app cannot react at the moment you take a screenshot; iOS does not allow it. So nothing happens until you open the app or share. We will not claim otherwise.

Reading them

  • Text is recognized on your phone with Apple's Vision framework. The screenshot does not leave the phone for this step.
  • Harder questions, such as “what is in this picture”, could go to a model on your own GPU machine. Nothing would be sent to someone else's cloud for this.

Storing them

  • Each item is one file in your private GitHub repository. Files are only added, never rewritten, so two devices never overwrite each other.
  • The image itself goes to your own Cloudflare storage. The repository records its SHA-256 hash, so anyone with the repository can check that the image was not changed.

Using them from any AI

  • Agents such as Claude Code connect through MCP, the standard way agents use tools.
  • Every answer cites the item as amem://<key>#p<page>@<hash>, and amem verify checks that the cited text is still the same.

What is built, in development, or only an idea

Built

On the author's own machines, in private repositories. Not packaged for anyone else yet.

  • A command-line tool that saves PDFs, arXiv papers and web pages into your own git repository. Two machines share one repository and stay in sync.
  • Claude Code searches it through MCP. For a sentence you want to check, it returns the page and a SHA-256 hash of the source, and amem verify checks the citation.
  • amem Clipper, a Chrome extension that saves web pages, is on the Chrome Web Store.

In development

  • An iPhone prototype: it takes items from the share sheet, recognizes text on the phone and lists the screenshots in your photo library. Paused since April 2026. It has not been released, even to testers, and it does not yet send anything to the store above.

Only an idea so far

  • The screenshot app as described on this page.
  • Storing images in your own Cloudflare storage, with a rebuildable search index.
  • Access from web chat apps such as claude.ai and ChatGPT.
  • Handing screenshots to a model on your own GPU machine.
  • Uploading new screenshots in the background. iOS offers a background upload feature for photo backup apps; we have not confirmed that an app like amem may use it.
  • Android.
  • GitLab and Gitea instead of GitHub.

How it compares

  • Google's Pixel Screenshots (Pixel 9 and later) searches your saved screenshots and answers questions about them. Apple's visual intelligence in iOS 26 (iPhone 15 Pro and later) lets you ask about a screenshot you just took. Both come at no extra cost.
  • Your screenshots and the answers stay inside their apps and their assistants.
  • amem is for people who want the data in their own account, want any AI to use it, and want each answer traceable to the original screenshot.
  • If we missed a product that already does this, please tell us at hello@amem.sh.

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If the amem app existed, would you pay for it?

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