ALTERNATIVES
Microsoft Recall takes screenshots of everything you do. AI Twin does the opposite. We capture what you tell us to capture, store it as typed memory, and let you ask any AI assistant to use it. UK-built. Never always-on.
WHAT MICROSOFT RECALL IS
Microsoft Recall is a feature in Windows 11 on Copilot+ PCs. It takes continuous screenshots of your screen, every few seconds, and stores them in a local searchable database. The idea is that you can later ask “what did I see about X” and Recall retrieves the moment from your screen history.
Recall is opt-in. Microsoft delayed its launch multiple times after security researchers demonstrated the screenshots could be extracted by attackers. Microsoft has since added biometric sign-in, encryption-until-unlock, and a longer list of safeguards. The technical posture is stronger than it was at the controversial first announcement.
The conceptual concern is different from the technical one. Even with encryption, Recall captures everything visible on your screen by default once enabled, including content from other people’s apps that did not consent to being captured: end-to-end encrypted messages from Signal or WhatsApp shown on screen, confidential documents, private conversations. Some apps (Brave, Signal) explicitly opt out. Most do not.
For people whose work involves confidential information, this is a hard pattern to adopt. For people who simply prefer their AI tools to remember on purpose rather than by default, this is a different model of memory than they want.
THE DIFFERENCE
The fundamental difference is the capture model. Recall captures by default. AI Twin captures by request.
Microsoft Recall
AI Twin
Microsoft Recall
Takes screenshots of your screen automatically, every few seconds.
AI Twin
Captures what you forward, paste, type, or upload. Nothing else.
Microsoft Recall
Captures content from any app that does not explicitly opt out, including messages from people who did not consent.
AI Twin
Captures only what you give it. The people you correspond with are not part of the data.
Microsoft Recall
Stores data locally on a Copilot+ PC. Requires Windows 11 on specific hardware.
AI Twin
Stores data in the EU. Works across any device, any operating system, any AI assistant.
Microsoft Recall
Tied to one operating system (Windows).
AI Twin
Model-agnostic and OS-agnostic. Your memory works with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or whichever assistant you choose.
Microsoft Recall
Not designed for UK GDPR compliance in regulated practice contexts.
AI Twin
Built to UK GDPR and EU AI Act standards. ICO-registered. EU data residency on every layer.
Microsoft Recall
Free, included with eligible Windows hardware.
AI Twin
£18 per user per month. We are paid for the service, so we do not need to monetise your data.
WHO THIS IS FOR
CONFIDENTIAL WORK
You handle confidential work. Lawyers, accountants, doctors, therapists, consultants, HR leaders. Your screen contains information that does not belong to you. Capturing it by default, even locally, creates a confidentiality risk that opt-in features do not erase. AI Twin lets you decide what enters memory.
HARDWARE INDEPENDENCE
You do not run a Copilot+ PC. Recall requires specific hardware. AI Twin runs on any device, any operating system. Your memory is in our database, not on your laptop.
DELIBERATE BY DESIGN
You prefer deliberate to automatic. Some people want AI that remembers everything by default. Some prefer to choose what gets remembered. If you are in the second group, AI Twin is closer to your model of how memory should work.
HONEST DISCLAIMER
Before you decide, here is what AI Twin is not, so the comparison is honest.
AI Twin is not an automatic screen recorder. If you want everything you see on your screen captured automatically, AI Twin will frustrate you. We do not do that.
AI Twin is not free. Recall is included with eligible Windows hardware. AI Twin is £18 per user per month.
AI Twin is not a Windows feature. We are a standalone product that works across operating systems. If you want something deeply integrated into Windows itself, Recall is closer to that.
AI Twin is not always-on. Memory enters by deliberate capture. Forward an email. Snap a photo. Capture a conversation when you choose to.
AI Twin is not a Microsoft product. We are a UK private limited company (AI Twin Ltd, registered in Scotland, SC866947). Our data is processed in the UK and EU. We do not train models on your data and we do not sell it.
MIGRATION PATH
If you have been using Recall and have exported transcripts, screenshots, or other captures, you can drop them into the Universal Input when AI Twin launches. We accept text, JSON, and CSV. Image content can be captured through Smart Forms.
If you have not exported, start fresh. AI Twin is designed to build useful memory deliberately. Most users have a working memory layer within two weeks of starting.
Early supporter pricing while we build toward unlimited usage. Cancel within 7 days, no questions. The price covers the cost of not selling your data and not capturing what you did not authorise.
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