Hey, it's Vit — founder of Recall. Here's what the team's been building this month.

We drew a hard line on privacy. Some things are simply none of Recall's business. Recall now recognizes adult and other clearly private content on screen and refuses to record it — not "records it and hides it," but nothing analyzed, nothing written down, no trace left in your history. This release also does a one-time sweep of your existing history and removes anything the filter would have blocked in the first place.

Pausing Recall is now two clicks. The menubar tray has a Pause button with real options: 15 minutes, 1 hour, 3 hours, the rest of the day, or until you turn it back on. While you're paused, the menubar icon changes so there's never any ambiguity about whether Recall is watching. And if you pause indefinitely, we'll gently remind you later that it's still off — we'd rather nudge you than let you forget.

Recall finally understands you're juggling two things at once. We rebuilt how it decides which thread a screen moment belongs to. Every moment now gets assigned to exactly one thread the instant it happens, and titles/summaries are built only from moments that truly belong there. When your activity is genuinely mixed, Recall would rather say nothing than guess wrong.

Smart Return got easier to read. One clear "where you left off" block at the top, and an "Also waiting" list below for everything else on your plate. Click an item and you can look before you leap — nothing opens until you actually press "Return to where you were."

The Loops tab got a cleanup. It now opens with a quick summary of what's waiting on you, freshest first. Anything untouched for over a month gets tucked away, and snoozed loops show you exactly when they'll wake back up.

And a handful of fixes: long-lived AI chat tabs no longer stamp their title onto unrelated threads, coming back on Monday now shows your last active day instead of an empty weekend, and notes left with ⌥⌘B show up in Smart Return right away.

This followed right on the heels of 0.39.0, where we rebuilt the whole first-run experience: a guided five-step tour with a live demo of a work thread being captured, interrupted, held, and brought back — plus a privacy explanation we rewrote word by word to be literally true about what Recall reads, what it never stores, and what only leaves your Mac if you choose to share it. We also shipped Breadcrumbs (⌥⌘B to leave yourself a one-line note that Smart Return surfaces the moment you're back), a simple way to invite a friend, and a gentle heads-up that Recall needs a few hours of normal use before your day starts to take shape.

As always — thank you for using Recall, and for telling us when something's off. It's how we keep making it better.

— Vit

Hey Sumo-lings,

Vit here. We've shipped two solid updates to Recall recently, and I wanted to walk you through what's new myself — because a lot of it came directly from feedback you all sent us.

Recall 0.38.0 (July 2026)

We heard you: Recall is quieter now. The most consistent piece of feedback we got was that Recall interrupted too much. Most proactive panels are now off by default, and only surface when they'll actually earn your attention. Smart Return and the drift reminder still pop up, and all five nudges are yours to control in Settings, under Nudges.

Windows open where you are. Recall windows now open on the Space you're on, right on top of whatever you're doing, instead of triggering a system dialog. First click works, the window sticks around so you can go back to it, and closing it hands focus back to the app you were using. A phantom hidden window that silently broke menubar navigation is gone for good.

Help us make Recall smarter, and get 3 months free. Recall is in early beta, and real-world diagnostics are what help us improve recognition and task understanding. Share your diagnostics and your free trial runs 3 months instead of 7 days, for as long as sharing lasts. On, optional, and off by default — closing it out early gets you the app to the day you stopped sharing. Already sharing? Thank you: the extended trial applies automatically.

Also in this release. Summon Smart Return anytime with the menubar button or Option-Command-R. Capture a task straight off your screen with Option-Command-T. Global shortcuts are now remappable in Settings. Drift reminders now fire correctly when you slide into leisure inside a work session, and an occasional menubar popover rendering glitch is fixed.

Recall 0.37.0 (July 2026)

Parallel work, tracked properly. Each workstream now gets its own thread instead of being mashed into one. The menubar shows what you're focused on plus an "Also live" list of everything else in flight, honestly and clearly.

Project recognition, rebuilt. Recall derives your projects from the real shape of your work, so there are far fewer "Franken-projects" and junk cards. If it thinks two projects are the same, it suggests a merge, and never buries them without your backup. Rename a project and the name sticks.

Recognition beyond code. CRM records (Salesforce, HubSpot) and creative and office documents (Final Cut, Premiere, Photoshop, Logic, Word, Excel and more) now become real projects, grouped by the actual document or record instead of lumped together as "that app."

When it isn't sure, it says so. Work that can't be confidently placed waits in an unassigned state, and a local background assistant files it into the right project only when it's genuinely confident. Every automatic move is logged and reversible, and nothing leaves your Mac.

Finish tasks right from the panels. The Smart Return and "pick one" panels let you mark work done, small celebration included, and finished work is never suggested again. Smart Return no longer disappears on a timer — it waits for you.

Browse any day, not just today. The Today view can travel back in time: open any past day and see exactly what you worked on, frozen as that day ended.

Movies aren't work. Recall now tells doing from watching. Entertainment counts as a break, not a fake work session, and you get a gentle nudge when you're drifting with real work open.

Extra devices and steadier under load. Add device slots right from your account, and in-flight work now survives app restarts and in-app updates without losing context.

All of this came from watching how you actually use Recall day to day — keep the feedback coming, it's directly shaping the roadmap.

Thanks for being here,
Vit
Recall

Hi everyone, Vit here. We've shipped five releases since our August update, 0.41 to 0.45. Here's what changed.

How you got here. The Smart Return card now retraces your steps: what you asked Claude Code or Codex, the pages, chats and calls along the way, and what someone asked you for, with the last step marked "left off here". None of it is written by AI, passwords, tokens and email addresses are masked, and it stays on your Mac. Beside it, Might be relevant lists up to three moments from just before or after, in other apps, about the same work.

See what will reopen first. We rebuilt Smart Return in 0.43 around getting you back: your note, exactly what will reopen, then one click. Every other way back shows the same ticked list first, and nothing opens until you say so.

Tasks from your chats. Recall picks up what people asked you for and what you said you would do in Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, WhatsApp and the Mail app, and keeps them in Loops. There's nothing to connect: it reads them off your screen. Since 0.45, your own messages in WhatsApp, Telegram and Teams are no longer mistaken for requests from other people.

Coding agents waiting on you. Claude Code and Codex sessions that finished their turn now show in the menu bar tray, Loops and Smart Return. With the optional hooks on, you also see when Claude Code is blocked and waiting for your approval. Going back opens that exact chat (for the Codex CLI, its terminal window).

Our own model. Recall Core, a model trained by us, has run on your Mac since 0.42, and 0.43 moved it to v1.1. Since 0.45 Recall does about ten times fewer background checks than before.

The tray and Today. The tray in your menu bar now shows your day: active time by project and what's waiting on you. Today is a searchable timeline with one lane per project, and time away from your Mac never counts as active time.

Loops as lists, and a dark theme. Loops now has Waiting, People, Agents and Notes, plus one list per project. Every note you leave sits in Notes, and done notes are archived, never erased. And Recall now has a dark theme.

Smaller things. Move a thread to another project and the move now sticks. Drift reminders are back. Design and creative work shows up as real projects once you return to it. Feedback is now a conversation inside Recall. macOS asks about folders less often, Recall uninstalls cleanly from Settings, and it all runs smoother.

Privacy, plainly. Since 0.43, Recall sends usage analytics: which screens and features you use, under a random install ID, never anything from your screen. It's on by default, and one switch in the Privacy section of Settings turns it off together with crash reports. What's sent lists every event in plain words, and a few anonymous setup counts are sent either way. What is on your screen stays on your Mac.

Thank you for using Recall. If something looks off, tell us from the Feedback window inside Recall and we'll reply there.

Vit