#1 AIUnknown
claudex — alternative #1 to engram
📇 🏠 🍎 🪟 🐧 - Persistent memory + FTS5 full-text search for Claude Code conversation history. Indexes ~/.claude/projects/ JSONL into SQLite, e...
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Alternatives to engram
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#2 AIUnknown
enquire-mcp — alternative #2 to engram
📇 🏠 🍎 🪟 🐧 - Long-term memory for AI agents (Claude Code/Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT, Codex, OpenClaw) backed by a local Obsidian markdown vault...
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#3 AIUnknown
macos-vision-mcp — alternative #3 to engram
📇 🏠 🍎 - Local OCR and image analysis via Apple Vision Framework. Wraps macOS's native Vision API to expose OCR for images and PDFs (with rea...
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#4 AIUnknown
perseus-vault — alternative #4 to engram
🦀 🏠 🍎 🪟 🐧 - Local-first, MCP-native persistent memory for AI agents — a single Rust binary with embedded SQLite, hybrid FTS5 + dense-vector...
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#5 AIUnknown
vectr — alternative #5 to engram
🐍 🏠 🍎 🪟 🐧 - Semantic codebase search + persistent working memory for AI code editors. Hybrid dense + BM25 search over AST-aware chunks, a sy...
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#6 AIUnknown
cogmemai-mcp — alternative #6 to engram
📇 ☁️ 🍎 🪟 🐧 - Persistent cognitive memory for Claude Code. Cloud-first with semantic search, AI-powered extraction, and project scoping. Zero...
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#7 AIUnknown
Mac App Store — alternative #7 to engram
gautam-u/sieve-mcp 🏠 🍎 - Local AI chat history secret scanner for macOS. Finds API keys and secrets leaked into Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot...
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#8 AIUnknown
vestige — alternative #8 to engram
⭐ 605 — Local-first cognitive memory MCP server for coding agents; SQLite store, FSRS-6 retention, prediction-error gating, active forgettin...
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How were these alternatives selected?
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