Retrace your conversations.
Your chats, notes, and music are scattered across a dozen apps. Retrace pulls them into one private context layer. Searchable, and entirely on your Mac.
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Explore, rediscover, reflect.
Browse old conversations. Find forgotten moments. See patterns across platforms.
Search across every conversation
Semantic search across every platform. Find conversations by meaning, not just keywords.
See your relationships evolve
Force-directed graph with tie-strength scoring and timelapse animation.
This time last year
AI-powered then-and-now comparisons. See what changed and what you forgot.
Reflect with Claude
Claude sees only what you allow. Explore your history or reflect on it.
No app sees the full picture. Retrace connects the dots.
Your life doesn't happen on one platform. A single decision might span a ChatGPT brainstorm, a WhatsApp conversation with a friend, and an Obsidian note where you planned next steps. Retrace is the only place where all three connect.
It remembers what you forgot.
An idea you mentioned once in January, forgot, then brought up again in April. Retrace sees the thread even when you don't. Quiet cards surface what was happening this time last year. Nothing nudges you, the insights simply wait until you come back.
You and Mae spent weeks hunting for an apartment in Lisbon to finally live together, debating every neighborhood late into the night.
It shows the shape of your attention.
Watch what you talked about flow over time, by person or by topic, as a living streamgraph. Wider streams are the weeks something really mattered.
The people who shape you, over the years.
Every relationship you live through is here, the close ones and the ones that drifted. Watch them grow, fade, and sometimes come back, across the years.
Every reflection traces back to a real message.
For a month you and Mae slowly talked each other into a trip to Berlin, trading songs and venues until it felt real.
"ok this set is unreal, this has to be our soundtrack"
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"found a tiny club in kreuzberg we have to see 馃暫"
See it in action.
Explore a fully interactive demo with fictional data. No download required.
The full interactive demo is designed for larger screens.
Try it on your laptop or open it in landscape for a quick look.
Open demoFree, open source, your data stays on your Mac.
You're sitting on years of insight.
Export your data, import it locally, and for the first time see the full picture. Your conversations become your journal, your timeline, your searchable memory.
Intimate by default, not by promise.
Your data is stored locally
Your conversations are structured and indexed on your own machine. No telemetry, no tracking.
You choose what leaves
Deep reflection uses Claude, and it sees only what you allow. Labels decide exactly what's shared.
No engagement bait
No badges, no red dots, no notifications. Open source, MIT licensed. Insights wait quietly until you return.
The patterns are already there. Retrace just helps you see them.
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