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xCreen for Mac

Menu bar screen memory that OCRs the foreground window locally and has Hermes Agent write short takeaways into Obsidian daily notes.

By Al-ex-W. Free and open source, Apache-2.0 licence.

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xCreen at a glance

Version
2.0.0
Released
20 October 2026
Download size
447 KB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
Apache-2.0
Category
Utilities
Developer
Al-ex-W
GitHub stars
4

About xCreen

Screen memory for Hermes on macOS. Short takeaways from your screen in your Obsidian daily notes. Open source Rewind/Recall alternative.

Screenshots

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How to install xCreen on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for xCreen and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 2.0.0 from Al-ex-W's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to xCreen show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: xCreen-2.0.0-macos.zip (447 KB).

What is new in xCreen 2.0.0

Screen memory for Hermes — now with Hermes on your Mac **or on a home server**.

## What's new

- **Client and server.** The Mac app now only captures and uploads. `xcreen-server` runs next to Hermes Agent — on the same Mac (complete install) or on a Linux/macOS machine you reach over Tailscale (split install) — and owns the screen history, the Hermes session and your notes. Same code either way, one stable [protocol](https://github.com/Al-ex-W/xCreen/blob/main/docs/protocol.md). Design: [client and server](https://github.com/Al-ex-W/xCreen/blob/main/docs/client-server.md).
- **Never digests on the wrong model.** Automatic batches wait until the xCreen default model is applied, and resume on their own when it becomes available.
- **Smaller history.** Screenshots are recompressed to JPEG once their batch is digested (~8× smaller, ~95% of OCR-readable words kept); the digest itself always sees the lossless capture.
- **Keeps capturing offline.** If the server is unreachable, the Mac queues captures in a private outbox and uploads them later (`xcreen flush` to push now).
- **New commands:** `xcreen server`, `xcreen flush`; on the server `xcreen-server init|serve|token|doctor|config|migrate-journal`.

## Install

- Hermes on the same Mac: `bash scripts/install.sh` (upgrades 1.x in place, keeping your history, session and settings).
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