Your AI chats should live on your drive, not in a provider's cloud.
Every provider keeps your conversations in its own app. Close the tab, change the plan, and the history is wherever that company puts it. TotalRecalls brings those chats home: plain Markdown and JSON files, in a Library on your own PC, that you can read, search, and back up like any other document.
Owning your chats means they behave like your other documents
Right now your AI history is a feature of someone else's product. TotalRecalls makes it your data: files you can open without logging in, search without a special tool, and keep when the provider's plan changes.
Three steps from “it's in the app” to “it's on my drive”
Download TotalRecalls
One installer for Windows 10 and 11. No account required to start. Free tier includes ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.
Pick your providers
Sign in locally, inside the app. TotalRecalls talks to each provider on your machine; your credentials never leave your PC.
Save to your Library
Every conversation becomes a .md and a .json in C:\TotalRecalls\Library\. One folder per provider, dated filenames, ready for any text editor.
What each provider gives you — and what TotalRecalls gives you instead
Most providers give you a view of your history, not the history itself. TotalRecalls gives you the files.
| Provider | What the provider gives you | What TotalRecalls gives you |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | One zip of raw JSON | Full conversation as dated, readable files |
| Claude | Project export (limited) | Projects and conversations as .md/.json |
| Perplexity | None | Conversations saved before the tab trail vanishes |
| Gemini | Raw Takeout zip | Takeout archive converted to Markdown |
| Grok | None | Chats + X-post references, local |
| DeepSeek | None | Conversations with R1 thinking traces |
| Mistral | None | Le Chat, UTF-8 intact |
| Qwen | None | chat.qwen.ai history, multilingual |
Your conversations are your record
The prompts you wrote, the drafts you iterated on, the research conversations you built — that's a record of your work. Right now it only exists in whatever interface each provider ships today. If they redesign, merge, or retire a product, your history goes with it.
Files don't care about product roadmaps. A Markdown file on your drive reads the same in ten years as it does today. TotalRecalls gives you that option, across eight providers, without making you learn eight different export menus.
Bring your AI history home.
Free tier gets you started on ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. Pro unlocks all eight providers and unlimited conversations, with a one-time payment.
Windows 10 and 11. Your files stay on your drive.