Reyn
local-first AI that journals and recalls your work
Details
- External ID
- 48577880
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Reyn
- Website domain
- usereyn.com
- Launched
- June 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.31420765027322406
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hey HN, I built Reyn - which I like to describe as "granola but for everything". You're probably thinking another screen capture AI tool (which is true). Same as always, the biggest question that comes up is privacy, so I'll talk about that first1. raw screen data is never stored in the cloud 2. user controlled filters are granular to the point that you're able to configure specific apps, windows, websites, or even keywords to be discarded immediately (once again never leaving your mac) and never captured down the pipelineI personally built it because I find it useful and always had the problem of organizing my day (not note taking or task management), as well as sharing context on things that just happened to go undocumented throughout my day. As I was building it I decided to go even further and see if I could collect useful insights and find room for improvements in my day to day workflow.This led to the current version of Reyn and its differentiating factor being the fact that it has a proactive layer. Most tools in this space are reactive - you ask, they retrieve. Reyn surfaces insights on its own and sends a daily recap of what you worked on, what's still open, and what deserves attention. The journal feature also lets you search across basically anything you've done on your Mac.The proactive insights work by first having you configure what your ideal workday looks like — whether that's hours worked or the type of work being done. We have a few broad categories that tasks fall under, with more customization coming.Current integrations:Obsidian (available now, improvements in progress) Gmail, calendar, web search via a floating window with some agentic functionality Notion (coming soon) BYOK for LLM API requests (on the roadmap) ... and moreIt's still early, but the journal and insights features are the strongest parts right now. Would love some feedback especially on the privacy model. My personal take - I think with enough safeguards in place, the data aggregated about your work is fully in your control. A lot of these data sources already store your data. If you're using Notion, Claude, or just browsing a website, that data is already being stored somewhere. Reyn is just aggregating it and putting it to work for you.Happy to answer any questions about how it worksusereyn.com (public beta)
Enrichment
- Theme
- screen recording and demo creation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- local ai journaling and work recall
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A basic macOS screen recorder with local OCR and cloud summarization can be prototyped, but a seamless, low-resource background capture system that respects privacy and runs OCR continuously without draining battery requires specialized native macOS engineering.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires a native Swift/Objective-C daemon using macOS ScreenCaptureKit or CGDisplay APIs, Apple Vision framework or on-device OCR models for continuous text extraction, and a local SQLite/vector database for temporal search. The hard problems are continuous low-latency, energy-efficient frame diffing and filtering out private/sensitive PII on-device before sync. Solving these requires native macOS systems programming and hardware-accelerated on-device ML expertise.
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Competitors
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Launched 137 days after the earliest competitor.
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