Your life, as a universe.
MemorySpace takes every photo and video you've kept, from Snapchat memories to your camera roll to old backups, and arranges them in time and space. Fly through a year. Walk through a trip. Find everyone you've ever smiled with. It's a personal memory vault that lives on your computer, not in a cloud.
Every memory, somewhere you can go.
Not a grid of thumbnails. A place: one turn of the spiral per year, with every photo floating where it belongs.
Filmed in MemorySpace from a real library of 10,473 memories, far enough away that nobody's photos show. The museum is hung with free stock photos.
Your timeline, as a spiral
Years stack like a galaxy you can orbit, scrub, or fly straight through. Detail sharpens as you get close.
Search what's in the photo
Type "beach", "dog", or "snow at night", and matching memories light up and gather in front of you. No tags needed.
The people in your life
Faces are grouped for you, on your own computer. Name them once and fly through every moment you shared.
Trips, found by themselves
Times you were far from home are detected from your photos' locations and named for you: that beach weekend, the road trip, the summer away.
Walk into a gallery
Turn any trip, person, or month into a museum, with framed photos on the walls, videos playing, and a room for every day.
Drift
Press space and let it fly you through your memories one by one, with the date, the place, and who you were with, like a film of your life.
Your vault, not a cloud.
MemorySpace was built for one person's own photos first, so it treats yours the same way.
- Your photos never leave your computer. Not to thewoob, not to a cloud, not anywhere. The previews, face grouping, photo search and place names are all worked out on your own machine.
- No account, no sign-in, no ads. There is nothing to sign up for.
- Your originals stay where they are. MemorySpace reads your photos and never moves, edits, or deletes them. Uninstall it and your vault is gone.
- One small, anonymous check-in. When it opens, the app can say "an install exists and was opened today": a random install ID, the app version, and Windows or Mac. Nothing about you or your library. It's how I know people use it and how the app hears about updates. Turn it off in setup or any time in the app's menu.
- Its only downloads are its AI models, once, on first run, straight from where they're published (Hugging Face, and InsightFace on GitHub), and its own updates from this site, which are signed and only installed if the signature checks out.
Don't trust it? Good. Ask your AI.
You shouldn't have to take a stranger's word for what happens to your photos. Nothing in MemorySpace is compiled or hidden: everything it runs is readable Python and JavaScript in its install folder. Have an AI look before you ever open it.
In a chat AI
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar. Paste this:
With an agent that reads files
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar. Install MemorySpace, don't open it yet, and point the agent at its folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\MemorySpace\resources on Windows, or /Applications/MemorySpace.app/Contents/Resources on a Mac. Then ask:
Three steps.
Most libraries are ready to explore within minutes. Faces and search finish quietly in the background.
Install it
Download and open the installer. It sets up just for you, no admin needed.
Mac: drag MemorySpace into Applications and open it from there. The first time, macOS says it can't verify the developer, because this indie app isn't notarized by Apple yet. Click Done, open System Settings, then Privacy & Security, scroll down to MemorySpace and click Open Anyway, then Open Anyway once more. You only do this once.
Point it at your memories
It finds Snapchat exports and photo folders on its own. Add an iPhone copy, your Mac's Photos library, a Google Photos takeout, or an old backup drive.
Fly
Your universe forms in front of you. Drag to look around, scroll toward anything, click to open, press space to drift.
Questions.
Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
No. Everything that touches your photos, the previews, face grouping, photo search and places, is computed on your own computer, and none of it is ever uploaded. The app's only internet use is downloading its AI models once, the small anonymous check-in described above (which you can switch off), and fetching its own signed updates from this site.
What exactly does the check-in send?
A random install ID made on your computer, the app version, your operating system and its version, whether you've built a universe yet (yes or no), and which days the app was opened if it couldn't check in at the time. The server sees your IP address like any website does, keeps only the country, and stores no IP. It never sends photos, file names, faces, names, places, or counts of anything in your library.
How do I get my Snapchat memories?
- In Snapchat open Settings, then My Data.
- Choose Memories and Chat Media, turn on "Export JSON files", and submit.
- When Snapchat emails you, download every zip. MemorySpace finds them in your Downloads folder automatically.
What about my iPhone, Mac Photos, or Google Photos?
iPhone on Windows: plug it in, open it in File Explorer, and copy the DCIM folder somewhere, or use iCloud for Windows and choose its Photos folder. Mac: MemorySpace can read your Photos library directly (photos kept only in iCloud need "Download Originals to this Mac" turned on in Photos settings). Google Photos: request a takeout at takeout.google.com (just Google Photos) and pick the zips. Dates and places come along.
What does it need?
Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit), or a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer). 8 GB of RAM or more, about 2 GB of disk for the app and its AI models, plus room for previews (roughly 1 GB per 10,000 memories). A first import of about 10,000 memories is ready to explore in a few minutes; faces take longer and finish in the background.
Does it cost anything?
No. It's free, it's a personal project, and it has no ads.
How do I remove it completely?
Windows: uninstall it from Settings, then Apps, and delete the MemorySpace folder in %LOCALAPPDATA% (or the library folder you chose). Mac: drag MemorySpace from Applications to the Trash and delete ~/Library/Application Support/MemorySpace. Your original photos are untouched either way.