I kept screenshotting things. A recipe someone posted, the wifi password taped to a fridge, a page from a book, the name of a restaurant a friend swore by. Each one felt handled the moment I took it. None of them ever came back.
The advice is always to be more organised — make albums, sort weekly, delete ruthlessly. That advice quietly blames you, and it ignores why you took the screenshot in the first place: you were busy, mid-task, with about one second of attention to spare. Any system that asks for work in that second is going to lose.
So I built the other thing. Reminari keeps the one-second habit exactly as it is and does the remembering afterwards — reading what’s inside each image, writing a summary, filing it, and handing it back when you describe what you’re looking for.
What it’s actually made of
No mystery, since people ask. The app is Flutter, one codebase for Android and later iOS. The library on your phone is a SQLCipher-encrypted database, with the key held in the device keystore. Text inside images is read on the device using Google’s ML Kit — the picture doesn’t travel to be read.
Sync and accounts run on Supabase, in the Northeast Asia region, behind row-level security so one account can never see another’s rows. The optional AI — summaries, meaning-search, asking your vault a question — runs through a server function, so the API key never ships inside the app. You can switch that off entirely and everything else keeps working.
Where it is right now
Pre-launch, honestly. Android first, because that’s the phone in my pocket and building for it doesn’t need a Mac. iOS is real and coming — the share extension and Sign in with Apple are the two big pieces left. If you’re on the waitlist you get one email, when there’s something to install.
There is no team behind this. It is one person and a very long list.
Why “Reminari”
It’s Latin — to remember, to recall to mind. The app doesn’t remember for you so much as hand things back when you reach for them, which felt like the right word.
Talk to me
Bugs, ideas, disagreements, or a screenshot the app read wrong — hello@reminari.com reaches me directly. There’s no support queue in front of it.