Littlebird: The Assistant That Was There for All of It and Forgets Nothing
Every AI assistant has the same weakness: it only knows what you paste into it. The decision from last Tuesday's call, the number a teammate dropped in a doc you skimmed, the promise you made in a chat thread, all invisible. Littlebird closes that gap by simply being present. It runs on your Mac, sees what you see, hears your meetings, and builds a memory of your working life you can actually query.
The short version
Littlebird is an always-on assistant that captures your screen activity and meeting audio as you work, turning everything into searchable memory. Ask it what was decided in any meeting, where you saw a figure, or what you owe whom, and it answers from lived context instead of guesses. It preps you before meetings, writes perfect notes after them, drafts content grounded in your real work history, and connects to hundreds of tools. A free tier exists, with Pro at twenty dollars a month, and a companion phone app carries the memory with you.
Memory as the feature, not a feature
Other tools bolt memory onto chat, Littlebird inverts it. Because it reads your active windows and transcribes your calls continuously, its knowledge is everything you touched, not just what you remembered to file. That changes the questions you can ask: not "summarize this document" but "what did we agree with the vendor across the last three calls and that pricing sheet," answered in seconds with the receipts.
Meetings, before and after
The meeting workflow alone carries the subscription for busy calendars. Before a call, Littlebird assembles a prep brief from every prior interaction with those people and that project. During, it transcribes from your computer's audio with no bot joining. After, you get structured notes and action items you never typed, and any of it is queryable weeks later when the follow-up call lands. The half hour a day people spend reconstructing context is exactly what this deletes.
The privacy conversation you should have with yourself
An assistant that sees your screen is only worth it if you go in clear-eyed. Littlebird gives you controls over what gets captured, pause it, exclude apps, and you should use them deliberately: banking sessions, private browsing and other people's confidential material do not belong in any tool's memory. Treat the capture scope as a setting you own, review the data policy once, and the tradeoff, total recall of your own work, is one many professionals will take happily.
Where it shines
- Remembers everything you saw, said and heard at work
- Meeting prep briefs and botless transcription
- Answers grounded in your actual history, with sources
- Hundreds of integrations across work tools
- Phone app keeps the memory in your pocket
- Free tier to feel the effect before paying
Worth knowing
- Mac-first, Windows users are out for now
- Always-on capture deserves deliberate scope settings
- The memory takes a few days of use to get rich
Common questions
Does a bot join my meetings?
No. It transcribes from your computer's audio, so every platform works and nothing appears in the participant list. Consent rules for recording calls remain yours to follow.
Can I control what it captures?
Yes, you can pause capture and exclude specific apps or contexts. Set that up on day one so the memory contains exactly the working life you want recalled.
How is this different from a meeting notetaker?
Notetakers know your meetings. Littlebird also knows the docs, messages and research between them, so its answers connect the whole thread of a project rather than one call.
Bottom line
Littlebird bets that the most valuable context for an AI assistant is your own past, and delivers it with an always-there memory that gets sharper every day you work. Run the free tier for a week, then ask it something you genuinely forgot. That first correct answer tends to settle the question.