Nothing arrives on its own
Every entry got there because you added a note, dropped a file, pulled a ticket or ran an agent. There's no background writer, and the list is short enough to read in one glance for exactly that reason.
CompareRewind
Khint vs Rewind,intentional, not ambient
Rewind records everything. Khint only sees the text you select, when you press the shortcut.
KhintPalette
Sprint 24
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Runs on your session
Everything it knows is on this screen
The session on the left is the whole memory: seven entries, each one added by hand or written by a run you triggered. Watch a line of the update land and the entry it came from lights up. Nothing is selected, nothing was recorded, and there's no eighth entry you can't see.
A session you start,
not a tape that never stops
Khint's memory is a work session you open and close by hand. It holds the entries you put in, compacts them, and hands that summary to your next prompt. All of it stays in a SQLite file on your Mac.
Off until you press a key
The privacy default isn't a setting buried in a pane, it's the shape of the product: no key press, no run. Stop the session and its context goes idle without deleting anything.
It lives in a file on your Mac
Sessions, their entries and the Knowledge index are local and stay local. Signing in syncs your Packs and the metadata of your history; the bodies of what you ran never leave the device.
Your AI client reads the session, not your screen
Khint ships a standalone MCP server over stdio. Claude Desktop and Codex get the session you chose to keep, and nothing else: four ways to read it, one to append to it, and a notification every time they do.
What Khint never sees
Rewind's whole product is the feature Khint refuses to build, so this is the honest half of the comparison: what's off by default, what is never on at all, and the bill on each side.
Security and privacyNo screen recording, no ambient capture, no keystroke trail
No microphone and no meeting capture
Khint can't retrieve what it never saw: there's no rewind
Sessions and their entries stay local and never sync
Pixels are read once, on a region you drew yourself
That screenshot is discarded as soon as the text is out
Khint free, then from €7/mo · Rewind Mac $20/mo
macOS 13+ on any Mac, plus Windows 10 22H2+
What each one remembers
This isn't a feature gap. It's a different bet on what a memory should be allowed to see in the first place.
Khint: what you put in
The memory is a session you open and close by hand. It holds what you added, compacts it into the short context your next prompt reads, and stays in a SQLite file on your Mac.
- You start a work session and add entries yourself: notes, captures, action outputs. Nothing arrives on its own.
- Khint compacts those entries into a short context and prepends it to your AI prompts. Stop the session and that context goes idle.
- No screen recording, no microphone, no keystroke trail. The privacy default is off until you press a key.
Rewind: what it captures
Rewind's bet is total recall: every window, every meeting, recorded and queryable afterwards. It's the feature Khint refuses to build, so there are questions Rewind answers that Khint never will.
- Continuous recording of every window you see, plus every meeting you join if you opt in.
- Stored locally and encrypted, queryable through Rewind AI. The pitch is total recall.
- You never have to remember to remember, because the capture is on by default.
Twelve capabilities,
two memory models
Capture, storage, AI access, MCP, pricing. Including the rows where Rewind simply knows more than Khint ever will.
Capability
Khint
Rewind
What gets captured
KhintOnly selected text + active session entries
RewindAmbient screen + audio recording
Always-on background capture
KhintNo, shortcut-triggered only
RewindYes, continuous
Screen recording
KhintNo
RewindYes, every visible window
Microphone / audio capture
KhintNo
RewindYes (meetings opt-in)
Where data is stored
KhintLocal SQLite + opt-in cloud sync
RewindLocal encrypted DB on your Mac
Cross-device search
KhintNo (per-device sessions)
RewindYes (paid tier)
AI on captured data
KhintYes, context injected into prompts
RewindYes, Rewind AI on recordings
MCP server
KhintYes, Claude Desktop / Cursor
RewindNo
Privacy default
KhintOff until you trigger it
RewindOn until you turn it off
Pricing
KhintFree + paid plans from €7/mo
Rewind$20/mo (Mac)
Free tier with AI
KhintYes (300 credits a month)
RewindTrial only
Platform
KhintmacOS 13+, Windows 10 22H2+
RewindmacOS · iPhone (limited)
See how Khint stacks up
Same product, four other lenses. Each page is the honest version, including what Khint doesn't do.
Khint vs Raycast
A launcher with AI bolted on, against a palette that was an AI tool from day one.
Khint vs CleanShot XBoth read your screen. Only one can then act on what it read.
Khint vs GranolaNotes for the meeting, against context for the whole week around it.
Khint vs Apple IntelligenceFree and already installed, against your own prompts wired to your tools.
Common questions
Does Khint record my screen?
No. Khint never records the screen ambiently. The only time pixels are read is when you trigger OCR from the palette: that's a one-shot capture, and the screenshot isn't stored after text is extracted. There's no continuous recording, no audio capture, and no keystroke logging.
Is Khint always-on like Rewind?
No. Khint is action-driven, not always-on. Rewind's pitch is total recall: it records every window and every meeting, then lets you rewind through your day. Khint's pitch is the opposite: only the text you select is processed, and only when you press the shortcut. The Memory pillar adds your active work session's compact context into AI prompts, but it doesn't record your screen or your audio.
Where is my data stored?
Locally first. Your Khint history, your packs and your Memory sessions all live in a SQLite file on your Mac. If you sign in, your history and your packs also sync to a Supabase Postgres database, encrypted at rest and reachable only through our service key; Memory sessions never sync at all. Nothing else leaves the device unless you run an agent, which sends the text you gave it to the model.
Can Khint search across all my activity?
No, and that's by design. Rewind is built for that: it indexes everything you see and hear. Khint only knows about what you put into a Memory session, plus your action history. If you want a passive total-recall search, Rewind is a better fit. If you want a clean, intentional record of work sessions you explicitly start and stop, Khint fits better.
Does Khint sell my data?
No. Khint doesn't sell user data, and our inference providers' API terms prohibit training on customer inputs and outputs. We don't run any fine-tunes ourselves. Sub-processors are Anthropic and OpenAI (inference), Groq (voice dictation), Clerk (auth), Supabase (sync), Stripe (billing) and DigitalOcean (hosting). The privacy policy lists them all.
Memory that only sees what you choose
The active work session's summary is prepended to every AI action prompt. Free, and no always-on capture, ever.