Captures screen activity and conversations
Captures your screen and conversations to help surface what you saw or discussed.
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Omi
Captures screens and conversations to create tasks and summaries, with local open-source controls.
Product brief
What Omi does.
Omi captures your screen and conversations, creates tasks, reminders and advice, helping you find anything you saw or discussed. Turn calls into summaries and action items, ask questions and get personalized responses! Omi is open source, local and works with your own AI keys, giving you full control over what gets recorded, paused, or deleted.
Why we selected it
A practical personal knowledge-capture tool with unusually clear local, open-source, and user-controlled recording controls.
- Best for
- Privacy-conscious knowledge workers
- Category
- Research
- Daily picks
- 1
- First selected
- 2026-09-03
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What it can help with.
Only capabilities supported by the product information we collected are listed here.
Creates follow-up items
Creates tasks, reminders, and advice from captured information.
Summarizes calls into action items
Turns calls into summaries and action items.
Provides user-controlled local recording
Is open source and local, works with your own AI keys, and gives users control over what is recorded, paused, or deleted.
Best-fit use cases
Finding information that was previously seen on a screen or discussed in a conversation.
Turning calls into summaries and action items.
Creating reminders and tasks from captured conversations.
Using a local, open-source knowledge-capture tool with control over recording and deletion.
FAQ
Before you open it.
What can Omi capture?
Omi captures your screen and conversations.
What can Omi create from captured information?
It can create tasks, reminders, and advice, and can turn calls into summaries and action items.
Can Omi help retrieve something from a past conversation or screen?
Yes. Omi is intended to help users find things they saw or discussed and lets them ask questions for personalized responses.
How does Omi handle user control over recordings?
The description says Omi is local and gives users control over what gets recorded, paused, or deleted.
Is Omi open source?
Yes. Omi is described as open source and as working with your own AI keys.
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