#1 AIUnknown
engram — alternative #1 to engram-mcp
📇 🏠 🍎 🪟 🐧 - Local-first persistent memory for AI agents. SQLite + local embeddings (all-MiniLM-L6-v2), hybrid semantic + FTS5 recall, secret...
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Alternatives to engram-mcp
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#2 AIUnknown
gingugu — alternative #2 to engram-mcp
🐍 🏠 🍎 🪟 🐧 - Persistent memory for AI coding assistants. Local SQLite, no cloud. 16 MCP tools: store, recall, search, relate, consolidate, ex...
GitHub source
#3 AIUnknown
claudex — alternative #3 to engram-mcp
📇 🏠 🍎 🪟 🐧 - Persistent memory + FTS5 full-text search for Claude Code conversation history. Indexes ~/.claude/projects/ JSONL into SQLite, e...
GitHub source
#4 AIUnknown
rms-memory-mcp — alternative #4 to engram-mcp
🦀 🏠 🍎 🐧 🪟 - Local-first persistent memory for AI coding agents. Hybrid vector + full-text search (LanceDB + Tantivy), separate Markdown and...
GitHub source
#5 AIUnknown
alaya — alternative #5 to engram-mcp
🦀 🏠 🍎 🪟 🐧 - Neuroscience-inspired memory engine for AI agents. Stores episodes, consolidates knowledge through a Bjork-strength lifecycle (s...
GitHub source18MIT
#6 AIUnknown
cogmemai-mcp — alternative #6 to engram-mcp
📇 ☁️ 🍎 🪟 🐧 - Persistent cognitive memory for Claude Code. Cloud-first with semantic search, AI-powered extraction, and project scoping. Zero...
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#7 AIUnknown
waypath — alternative #7 to engram-mcp
📇 🏠 - Local-first external brain CLI for coding agents. SQLite-backed context, graph-aware recall via FTS5 and RRF, and governed memory with...
GitHub source
#8 AIUnknown
contextpulse — alternative #8 to engram-mcp
🐍 🏠 🍎 🪟 - Local-first desktop context server for AI agents. Captures screen (OCR), voice (Whisper), keyboard/mouse activity, and clipboard....
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How were these alternatives selected?
Each candidate is a live catalogue record in the same primary category, picked by a deterministic score that Oryxen records in its catalogue: how many meaningful words the two listings share, whether their pricing classes oppose (a paid product against a free one), whether both are open source, and whether either record is featured. The same catalogue state always produces the same list — no randomness, no manual ranking.
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No. Rows are ordered only by the recorded score, highest first, with alphabetical ties — payment never influences the order, nothing here is paid placement, and Oryxen charges no listing or placement fee.
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