remio
Summary
Knowledge accumulates faster than you can organize it — browser tabs you meant to revisit, meeting recordings nobody transcribed, competitive research scattered across three apps and a notes folder nobody opens. remio is a desktop application that captures that drift automatically, building a searchable knowledge base from what you already work on.
remio runs silently in the background on Windows and Apple Silicon Macs, recording what you browse, read, and discuss without requiring manual tagging or uploads. The core bet is that passive capture beats active curation — so instead of copying notes into a second brain, your second brain builds itself. The AI layer lets you query across files, meetings, emails, and saved pages in plain language, then generate reports or slide decks from that unified context. The ceiling appears when you need that knowledge base to connect to external systems or APIs — remio has no API surface, so whatever it captures stays inside the app. Teams that need to pipe insights into a CRM, a wiki, or a shared workspace hit that wall fast.
Bottom line: Pick remio if you are a solo professional drowning in unorganized research and want passive capture to do the filing for you — but plan a different stack the moment your team needs to share, export, or build on top of that knowledge programmatically.
Pricing Plans
SubscriptionLast verified 2 days ago- Price
- $11.6/mo
- Free Tier
- 500 AI credits/mo, Unlimited Webpage Capture, Unlimited Local File Parsing, Slack/Gmail/Outlook Integration, Basic Search & Reference, 2 Devices Sync (upcoming)
Free
For basic knowledge management & AI features trial.
- 500 AI credits/mo
- Unlimited Webpage Capture
- Unlimited Local File Parsing
- Slack, Gmail & Outlook Integration
- Markdown, Highlights & Comments
- Basic Search & Reference
- Mobile App Sync 2 Devices (upcoming)
Pro
All in Free, plus professional-grade AI experience.
- 10,000 AI credits/mo
- All Premium LLMs Included
- Nano Banana 2 Image Gen AI
- Meeting Assistant
- System Voice Dictation
- Enterprise Privacy & BYOK
- Base URL Connection
- Mobile App Full Device Sync (upcoming)
Plus
All in Free, plus advanced agent usage more.
- 40,000 AI credits/mo
- All Premium LLMs Included
- Nano Banana 2 Image Gen AI
- Meeting Assistant
- System Voice Dictation
- Enterprise Privacy & BYOK
- Base URL Connection
- Mobile App Full Device Sync (upcoming)
Max
All in Free, plus advanced agent usage more.
- 150,000 AI credits/mo
- All Premium LLMs Included
- Nano Banana 2 Image Gen AI
- Meeting Assistant
- System Voice Dictation
- Enterprise Privacy & BYOK
- Base URL Connection
- Mobile App Full Device Sync (upcoming)
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Pros
Sign in to edit- Passive background capture of pages, meetings, files, and emails without manual tagging, so your knowledge base reflects what you actually worked on rather than what you remembered to save.
- On-device meeting recording and transcription with no bots and no external routing, which means sensitive conversations stay off third-party servers — critical for legal, HR, or competitive research contexts.
- Conversational querying across your entire captured context — files, recordings, browser history, emails — so you can ask 'what did we decide about the pricing model' instead of hunting through five apps.
- Output generation (reports, slide decks, data tables) directly from your knowledge base, so the gap between 'I have the research' and 'I have the deliverable' collapses without switching tools.
- Local-first architecture with a self-hosted option available, so professionals in regulated environments or with data residency requirements are not blocked from using AI-assisted knowledge retrieval.
Cons
Sign in to edit- No API surface exists, which means anything remio captures is stranded inside the app. A sales professional who wants client notes to sync to a CRM, or an engineer who wants documentation to flow into Confluence, has to export manually — and at the volume where automation matters most, that manual step erodes every hour the passive capture saved.
- Platform support is restricted to Windows 10+ (x64) and Apple Silicon Macs. Intel Mac users and any team running Linux are excluded entirely, not as a degraded experience but as a hard block. Teams with mixed hardware standardize on a different tool.
- There is no evidence of team workspaces, shared knowledge bases, or permission controls in available documentation. remio is built for individual capture and retrieval. When a product team wants a shared competitive intelligence base that multiple people query and contribute to, remio's architecture does not support that — and teams with that requirement move to tools like Notion AI or a shared RAG setup on top of a vector database.
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About
- Platforms
- Windows 10+ (x64), macOS M-Chip, iOS (mobile app), Chrome browser extension
- API Available
- No
- Self-Hosted
- Yes
- Last Updated
- 2026-06-01T04:31:07.657Z
Best For
Who it's for
- Product managers doing competitive research
- Engineers managing technical documentation and knowledge
- Sales professionals tracking client information
- Students organizing lecture notes and research materials
- Privacy-conscious professionals handling sensitive information
What it does well
- Personal knowledge management and automated information capture
- Research synthesis and competitive analysis for product managers
- Meeting recording, transcription, and decision tracking
- Privacy-conscious knowledge workers requiring local data storage
- Cross-functional professionals needing contextual AI assistance without manual organization
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is remio free?
- remio is a paid tool ($11.6/mo). A 7-day free trial is available.
- Is remio open source?
- No — remio is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
- Can I self-host remio?
- Yes. remio supports self-hosting on your own infrastructure.
- When was remio released?
- remio was first released in 2025.
- What platforms does remio support?
- remio is available on: Windows 10+ (x64), macOS M-Chip, iOS (mobile app), Chrome browser extension.
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remio is a desktop knowledge management application that captures information passively — saving web pages you browse, transcribing meetings locally, and indexing files — then exposes that accumulated context through a conversational AI interface. The core workflow is three steps: connect your sources once, let remio run in the background, and query the resulting knowledge base when you need an answer or a deliverable. The vendor states it can generate research reports, slide decks, and data tables directly from your captured knowledge, removing the copy-paste loop between your notes and your outputs.
The differentiating feature is local-first, passive capture. Unlike tools that require you to upload or tag content, remio records meetings without bots or external devices, saves pages as you browse via a browser extension, and syncs local files — all without manual effort. The vendor describes this as ‘agentic RAG plus vision,’ meaning the AI can reason over images and documents in your knowledge base, not just plain text. Recording and transcription happen on-device, which means meeting audio does not route through a third-party server — a meaningful distinction for professionals handling sensitive conversations.
Remio fits a specific profile well: a solo knowledge worker — a product manager doing competitive research, an engineer maintaining personal documentation, a student organizing lecture material — who wants capture to happen automatically and retrieval to happen conversationally. The platform breaks when the use case becomes collaborative. There is no API, so knowledge cannot be pushed to a CRM, a team wiki, or a data pipeline. There is no indication of team sharing, permission controls, or workspace features in the scraped content. The tool runs only on Windows 10+ (x64) and Apple Silicon Macs, which excludes Intel Mac users and any Linux-based workflow entirely.
The vendor markets an ‘aApp Market’ for what it calls agentic apps that extend the knowledge base with task automation, though the depth of that ecosystem is not detailed in available documentation. Mobile apps for iOS and Android exist for capture — jotting notes and saving pages on the go — but the full AI assistant experience is desktop-only.