Oriora Shell Recall
“What was that command?”
Indexes your shell history on your Mac so you can find a command you ran without scrolling through history. Ask in plain English — "the rsync one I used for the backup" — and Shell Recall pulls the matching commands from your own history and shows where and when you ran them. The index lives on your Mac; only the top candidate commands for your question are sent to answer it, and obvious secrets like keys and passwords are masked before anything is indexed.
What you get
- ✓Search your shell history in plain English
- ✓Get the exact command back — with where and when you last ran it
- ✓Reads zsh, bash and fish history on demand — no background capture
- ✓Keys, passwords and tokens are masked before they're indexed
- ✓One-click Purge wipes the whole local index
- ✓Speak your question, or have the answer read back aloud — your Mac's own dictation and voice, no extra cost
- ✓Your history lives on your Mac — what's sent for each search isn't retained
Example outputs
How it works
Index your history
Shell Recall reads your zsh, bash and fish history files on demand and builds a local index.
Ask in plain English
Summon it with ⌘⇧Space and describe the command you're after.
Get the command
It finds the best matches from your history and shows each with where and when you ran it.
FAQ
Why isn't this on the App Store?
Mac App Store apps run sandboxed — walled off from the rest of your machine. This one has to read your Mac to be useful at all, so the sandbox would take away the whole point of it. It's a direct download instead, notarized by Apple the same way, and it installs by dragging it to Applications.
Does it write or suggest commands?
No. Shell Recall finds commands you've already run. It won't generate a new command or advise a "better" one — it retrieves and describes your own history.
Where is my history stored?
On your Mac. The index itself is never sent; only the top candidate commands for a question are sent to answer it, obvious secrets are masked first, and a one-click Purge wipes the index. Oriora keeps nothing.
Do I need a subscription?
No. The app is free; you only pay for the AI searches you run — a fraction of a cent each, billed to your Oriora wallet.
How do I sign in?
With your Oriora account — an emailed code, or Continue with Google, GitHub or Apple. It's the same Oriora sign-in page the website uses, shown inside the app, and one account covers every Oriora app.
Available on
Choose where to use it
↓ Download for macOSIn beta — launching soon.
Developers and terminal users who half-remember a command they ran weeks ago.