Contextify
Searchable History for Claude Code and Codex CLI
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Contextify is a native macOS application that provides a private, searchable timeline of your AI coding sessions.Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvrvRGp4C9MI built Contextify after I realized Claude Code automatically deletes your transcripts after 30 days.Contextify is a native macOS HUD - a private, searchable timeline of your AI / agentic coding sessions.* It provides a unified timeline of Claude Code and Codex CLI conversations.* You can search the history across all your projects.* It generates summaries of your exchanges with the AI locally using Apple Intelligence.* It discovers new projects automatically and lets you organize them for easy access. Even has hotkeys to switch (Shift-Command-[ or ])I learned a lot building this application and would be happy to answer any questions about how it works or uh...the journey.
HN · launched Dec 9, 2025 · 6 upvotes (top 73%) · 0 views
Niche: ai coding agent session managers · 516 launches, 38 in the last 7 days ▼ -14% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- Developer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Contextify monitors local session logs from CLI tools (like Claude Code and Codex), stores them in a local SQLite database, and offers full-text search and basic LLM summaries via native OS APIs.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Claude Code, Codex
Feature requests: Resume conversations across services with clean context, Save and restore agent state between sessions, Context check-ins for easier state management
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 368 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #323 of 369 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 33 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Clify · hn · 2026-04-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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