Minimi does one of the six things Smart Jelly does: it looks for open loops on your Mac and lends its memory to your other AI tools. Smart Jelly is the memory underneath — your people, projects, days and calls — with open loops as one thing built on it, each closed with the proof attached.
An “AI cat that closes your open loops”: ambient memory from your screen, plugged into the AI you already use. Built for people who context-switch all day and use Claude or ChatGPT.
Smart Jelly goes furtherA memory for your working life: formed on your Mac, kept on your Mac, handed back the moment you need it.
| Smart Jelly | Minimi | |
|---|---|---|
| How loops close | One list across every app. Each closes itself when the reply, file or meeting happens, with the proof attached | Closed automatically by “decision-tracing”; the evidence used is not published |
| What it builds | People and what each is to you, projects, and your days as episodes | A searchable memory stored as embeddings on your Mac, and an open-loops inbox |
| Meetings | Bot-free notes, a brief before the call, live cards during it | Call audio goes into memory; no notes view, brief or in-call help found |
| Asking it | Voice (⌥A) or typed, inside Smart Jelly; MCP for other AI tools | Through your own AI (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini…) over MCP |
| Where memory lives | On your Mac, encrypted | On your Mac, “no cloud database”; encryption of the local store not stated |
| Seeing what was sent | “What left your Mac”: every request and its exact text, on your Mac for 7 days | Names its providers (Gemini, OpenAI on Azure, Deepgram); no ledger found |
| Your own keys | Optional: use your own model keys | Not found |
| Model training | What is sent to answer a question is never used to train any model, and never stored by Smart Jelly | Says your data is never used to train |
| Memory benchmark | BEAM-100K: 87.57%, second of the systems that have published a result; every answer and script public | Reports 54% on BEAM against LIGHT’s 36%; no split, protocol, judge, answers or code published |
| Platforms | Mac (Apple silicon, macOS 14+) | Mac; Windows on the roadmap |
A tick marks the side that does more on that row. Where Minimi’s documentation says nothing, we say “not documented” rather than guess.
87.57% on BEAM-100K
54% reported on BEAM
Smart Jelly attaches the proof (the reply, the file, the meeting) to every loop it closes, so you can check it and reopen it. Minimi says loops close automatically but doesn’t publish how.
Yes. Smart Jelly speaks MCP, so an assistant on your Mac can read your tasks, people and mail once you switch it on.
Yes, without a bot: notes and a transcript after the call, a brief before it and quiet cards during it.
Compiled from Minimi’s publicly documented behaviour, 5 October 2026. These products ship fast — check their own site before you decide. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we’ll fix it.