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You are more than a clipboard courier.

Backstory keeps your history organized and available, then retrieves the context your AI needs to understand the full story—not just the pieces you happen to paste.

Starts with your Apple Messages history on Mac.

Try Backstory Paid free for 7 days

Paid includes a 7-day trial, then costs $19.99/month unless canceled.

Local-first. Your history stays on your Mac, and Backstory shares only retrieved context with supported AI tools.

Free provides a rolling 90-day Apple Messages history for manual, local use.

Built for Mac.

Illustration of Backstory relieving a person of repetitive copying and pasting by retrieving focused, source-linked context for supported AI tools.
Pattern recognized across your messages. This concern has come up repeatedly. It usually follows an unexpected change. You previously agreed on a way forward. The illustration includes a supporting-messages example.
Backstory desktop overview showing message history coverage, recent activity, and context review.

Ask without rebuilding the story.

What did we decide about the contractor last time?

Backstory retrieves:

  • The relevant conversation
  • The earlier decision
  • What changed afterward
  • The original messages supporting the answer

Example answer

You agreed to revisit the plan after the inspection. The issue came up again twice afterward, but no later decision replaced the original one.

View supporting messages

Your AI doesn’t need everything. It needs the right context.

More context is not always better context. Backstory retrieves a focused set of relevant, source-linked evidence so your AI can work from the right part of the story.

Backstory keeps the broader eligible history local. Your AI receives only the context it needs.

How Backstory finds what matters

Backstory evaluates the question alongside signals such as who was involved, what was being discussed, when events happened, and where the evidence came from. It combines those signals to return a focused set of relevant results.

  • People
  • Topics
  • Dates
  • Sources

How Backstory works

1. Connect your history

Start with Apple Messages. Free prepares a rolling 90-day history for manual, local use. Paid expands that boundary to the full available supported history.

2. Organize and retrieve what matters

Paid keeps supported history maintained while Backstory is active and organizes the people, topics, dates, conversations, and sources that make your history useful.

3. Get answers faster with fewer prompts

Supported AI tools receive focused, source-linked context through MCP—not your whole prepared history.

4. Verify the answer

Inspect the provenance and supporting evidence behind important details and conclusions.

Better answers, less rebuilding.

Return to earlier decisions, understand what changed, recover supporting details, and spend less time searching and pasting.

Your broader prepared history stays local.

Backstory maintains your broader history on your Mac. Supported AI tools receive only the retrieved context for the question being asked, with source links and provenance attached.

Free for local use. Paid for more.

Free includes a rolling 90-day Apple Messages history for manual, local use. Paid adds full available supported history, app-active maintenance, and supported connected use.

Try Paid free for 7 days, then continue for $19.99/month unless canceled.

  • Your full available supported Apple Messages history
  • Maintenance of supported history while Backstory is active
  • Supported connected retrieval through MCP
  • Source-grounded evidence you can inspect
  • Email support
Try Backstory Paid free for 7 days