Web Recall

A privacy-preserving extension for semantic browsing history

Find your way back to what you read. Web Recall saves the text of pages you choose, keeps a searchable library in your browser, and helps you revisit useful ideas. Search your saved pages or ask a question and follow the sources behind the answer. CAPTURE ON YOUR TERMS Start with automatic capture paused. Save individual pages manually, or enable automatic capture for the sites you choose. Domain allowlists and denylists let you control what enters your library. FIND PAGES BY MEANING Use semantic search with local Ollama embeddings or optional in-browser EmbeddingGemma models. Text search also helps you find saved pages when embeddings are missing or belong to a different model. Search reranking and query rewriting can be turned off separately from Ask. ASK WITH SOURCES Connect a local Ollama chat model to ask questions about captured pages. Read answers as they stream, inspect cited sources, expand the activity history, and stop or clear a response when you need to. MANAGE YOUR MEMORY Browse, filter and delete saved pages in Memory Manager. Export or import a JSON backup, check embedding status, fill missing embeddings, or explicitly replace the embeddings for a chosen page. Switching models does not automatically re-embed your library. MAKE IT YOURS Choose light, dark or system appearance. Use keyboard shortcuts, recent captures, daily highlights and configurable logs to fit your workflow. SETUP AND REQUIREMENTS Chrome 142 or newer is required. For semantic search, choose Ollama or download an in-browser embedding model in Settings. The original EmbeddingGemma model works without WebGPU; EmbeddingGemma 2 requires WebGPU. In-browser models download from Hugging Face and then process text on your device. Model downloads can take several minutes and use local storage. Ask and optional LLM features require a configured Ollama chat model. In-browser embeddings alone do not provide chat. You can use browser embeddings for search with query rewriting and search reranking disabled. PRIVACY Your captured library is stored locally in your browser. Web Recall does not include advertising or usage analytics. Local Ollama and in-browser inference keep model processing on your device. If you configure a remote Ollama endpoint, prompts and relevant page content are sent to that endpoint. AI answers can be mistaken. Open the linked sources to check important details. Support: https://github.com/tauki/web-recall/issues Privacy: https://github.com/tauki/web-recall/blob/main/privacy.md