Littlebird raises $11M for its AI-assisted ‘recall’ tool that reads your computer screen

There has been a lot of talk around building context for AI systems . In consumer software, we have seen startups being built around search , documents , and meetings . All of them want to capture context from your digital life, provide connections to other tools, and let you query all that data. Some tools went further. For instance, Rewind (which became Limitless and sold to Meta ) and Microsoft Recall aim to capture everything happening on your screen and help you remember it all. A new startup called Littlebird is trying a similar thing with a slightly different approach. While apps like Rewind store screenshots or some kind of visual data, Littlebird is “reading” the screen and storing the context in text format. The core idea behind the product is that since it is reading your screen all the time, you don’t need to provide additional context for productivity. The startup believes that while a lot of AI tools are trying to distract you, Littlebird can work in the background and can only appear when you want it to. When you set up Littlebird on your computer, you can customize which apps you want the app to ignore and not capture any context. The startup said that it automatically ignores password managers and sensitive fields in web forms like passwords and credit card details. You can opt to connect other apps like Gmail, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, and Reminders with the app, as well. The app lets you ask questions about your data, offering pre-generated prompts to get you started, such as “What have I been doing today?” or “What kind of emails are important to me?” In a couple of days of usage, I noticed that these prompts became more personalized as time went on. Littlebird also has an in-built Granola-like notetaker that uses system audio and runs in the background to capture transcription from meetings and create notes and action items based on that. When you open up a meeting in the detailed view, there’s an option called “Prep for meeting” that tak...