Apple Intelligence — on-device daily summaries & auto reminders

screenpipe uses Apple's on-device Foundation Models to analyze your recorded activity — no data leaves your Mac. requires macOS 26+ with Apple Intelligence enabled on Apple Silicon.

daily summaries

screenpipe automatically generates a summary of your day at 6 PM (when plugged in). the summary appears in your timeline view and includes:

• one-liner — casual summary of your day
• key moments — up to 5 important events from audio transcriptions
• action items — things mentioned in conversations, ranked by urgency
• people mentioned — names and context from your conversations

you can also click the Apple Intelligence icon in the timeline to generate a summary manually at any time.

how it works

1. fetches your audio transcriptions for the day
2. sends them to Apple's on-device Foundation Models (never leaves your Mac)
3. returns a structured summary with key moments, action items, and people
4. caches the result locally so it loads instantly next time

enable/disable

open settings → connections → toggle Apple Intelligence on or off.

auto reminders

screenpipe can scan your activity every 30 minutes and automatically create action items in Apple Reminders.

setup

1. open settings → connections → find the Apple Intelligence card
2. click "Connect Apple Reminders" (grants Reminders permission)
3. toggle on auto-scanning

once enabled, screenpipe will:

• scan your screen & audio every 30 minutes
• extract action items using Apple Intelligence
• create reminders in a "Screenpipe" list in Apple Reminders
• auto-deduplicate so you don't get repeat reminders

options

• audio only — skip screen data, only analyze audio transcriptions (on by default)
• custom prompt — add instructions like "focus on coding tasks" or "ignore social media"
• scan now — manually trigger a scan anytime

requirements

• macOS 26+ (Tahoe) with Apple Intelligence enabled
• Apple Silicon (M1 or later)
• screenpipe running on localhost:3030

<Note> if Apple Intelligence shows as "not available", check that it's enabled in **System Settings → Apple Intelligence & Siri** and that your Mac meets the requirements. </Note>

vs Apple's built-in screen time

feature	screenpipe	Apple Screen Time
full text search	✅ OCR on every frame	❌ app usage only
audio transcription	✅ local Whisper	❌
AI summaries	✅ daily summary with action items	❌
auto reminders	✅ action items → Apple Reminders	❌
API access	✅ full REST API	❌
cross-platform	✅ macOS, Windows, Linux	❌ Apple only

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