You remember what you saw. Recall finds where.
Recall is a Chrome extension that searches the pages you've visited by what they were about. Describe it the way you remember it, and you'll find it without the site name, the address or the exact words.
Works with Chrome on Windows, macOS and Linux. No account needed.
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Search the way you remember
Chrome's history only matches titles and addresses. Recall understands what each page was about, so vague, half-remembered searches still work.
How it works
There's nothing to organise or tag. Just keep browsing.
Browse normally
As you read, Recall saves each page's readable text to a private index on your computer. Your existing Chrome history is imported too.
Describe what you remember
Click the toolbar icon, press Alt+Shift+R, or type rc and a space in the address bar. Say it however it comes to mind.
Get the page back
An AI model running on your computer matches by meaning, then adds keywords and recency, and shows you the passage that matched.
Small, fast, and focused
Understands dates
"Yesterday", "last week" and "in March" narrow the search automatically. You can also filter by date, website or saved pages.
Forgives typos
"vectr databse" still finds the vector database guide. Keyword matching tolerates misspellings and partial words.
Save what matters
Star a result to keep it one click away, even when you've forgotten how you first found it.
Your browsing stays on your computer
Recall is built to be trusted with your history. It has no servers, so there's nowhere for your data to go.
- On-device AIThe search model ships inside the extension. No cloud AI and no API calls.
- Nothing recorded until you agreeRecall explains exactly what it collects when you install it, and waits for you to say yes.
- Sensitive pages are skippedRecall never runs in Incognito and never reads banking, payment, email or login pages. It ignores passwords and form inputs everywhere.
- You're in controlExclude sites, pause, keep titles only, export everything, or delete one page, one site, or all of it.
- Open sourceDon't take our word for it. Read the code.
Read the full privacy policy.
Questions
Will it find pages I visited before installing Recall?
Partly. Recall imports your recent Chrome history (90 days by default), so those pages are searchable by title and address straight away. Chrome doesn't keep the contents of pages, so older pages become fully searchable the next time you visit them.
Does it slow down my browser?
Indexing runs in the background, in small batches, after a page has finished loading. Searches typically take milliseconds. The AI model uses about 100 MB of memory while it's working and unloads itself after 10 idle minutes.
How much disk space does it use?
Usually tens of megabytes, even after months of browsing. Settings shows exactly how much, and you can delete anything at any time.
Which permissions does it ask for, and why?
Access to your history, so it can import and track the pages you visit. Optionally, it asks to read the pages you visit for full-text search; you can decline and keep titles and addresses only. A few technical permissions (scripting, tabs, alarms, offscreen, unlimited storage, favicon) let it do this in the background. Each one is explained in Settings → Permissions.
Does it work in other languages?
The default model is tuned for English. Settings includes a multilingual model that understands around 100 languages, including French, Portuguese and Swahili, and Shona to a limited extent.
Is it really free?
Yes. Core search will stay free. Recall is open source under the MIT license.
Stop losing the good stuff.
Install Recall once and every useful page you read from now on stays findable, even when all you remember is the gist.
Add to Chrome, it's free