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Smart Jelly vs Supermemory

Supermemory is a memory engine developers build into their own AI apps and agents. Smart Jelly is a Mac app for one person: it builds its memory from what you already read, write and hear, with nothing to connect or upload.

Checked 19 October 2026 against Supermemory’s own pages. Sources ↓
Supermemory coversA memory API and SDKs for AI apps and agents.Connectors for Gmail, Drive, Notion, GitHub and more, plus uploads.Plugins and an MCP server that give Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor a shared memory.Its cloud, or a self-hosted server on the larger plans.

A memory and context API that developers add to their AI apps and agents, with plugins and an MCP server that give AI tools a shared memory. Built for developers and teams building AI agents, and people who want one memory across their AI tools.

Smart Jelly goes furtherReads your chats, mail, meetings and websites on your Mac, with no accounts to connect.Builds the people in your life, your projects and your days, not only facts.Tracks what you owe and closes each one with the proof attached.Bot-free meeting notes, a brief before each call and live cards during it.A finished app: install it and it starts remembering.

A memory for your working life: formed on your Mac, kept on your Mac, handed back the moment you need it.

Where they overlap

Long-term memory that keeps up when facts change.
MCP, so other AI tools can use the memory.
Both publish memory benchmark results.
Both say your content is never used to train models.

Side by side

Smart JellySupermemory
What it isA Mac app for one person, ready to useA memory API and SDKs for developers, with plugins, an MCP server and a browser extension; its old web app now leads to the developer console
How it gets your data●Reads your chats, mail, meetings and websites as text, through macOS Accessibility. No accounts to connectConnectors (Gmail on Max, Drive, Notion, OneDrive, GitHub, Granola), API uploads of text, files and URLs, plugins and MCP
What it buildsPeople and what each is to you, projects, and your days as episodesSingle facts linked in a graph, where newer facts update older ones, and a profile of each user
Where memory livesOn your Mac, encryptedIts cloud, encrypted; a self-hosted server for macOS and Linux, on Scale and Enterprise or free up to a limit; connectors stay in the cloud
Meetings●Bot-free notes, a brief before the call, live cards during itDoesn’t record calls; imports notes and transcripts from Granola
What you owe people●One list across every app. Each closes itself when the reply, file or meeting happens, with the proof attachedNot documented
Building on itMCP for other AI tools●An HTTP API, SDKs, framework plugins, MCP with sign-in, and open-source plugins for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex
Model trainingWhat is sent to answer a question is never used to train any model, and never stored by Smart JellySays customer content is never used to train models, on every plan
PlatformsMac (Apple silicon, macOS 14+)●Any platform through its API; self-hosted on macOS and Linux; a browser extension
● marks the side that does more on that row. Where Supermemory’s documentation says nothing, we say “not documented” rather than guess.
Memory you can check
87.57% on BEAM-100KSecond of the systems that have published a BEAM-100K result, behind past.dev. Every answer, verdict and scoring script is public.How we measured itEvery answer on GitHub
97% reported by SupermemorySupermemory reports 97% Recall@20 on LongMemEval-S (95% Recall@15 in its GitHub README), and “#1” on LoCoMo and ConvoMem without numbers. Its testing tool is open source, but the answers to each question are not published. Recall measures whether the right memory was found, not whether the answer was right, and scores from different benchmarks and methods can’t be set side by side.Supermemory’s claim

What each costs

Smart Jelly: Free plan; paid plans for heavier use See pricingSupermemory · Free: $5 of usage a monthSupermemory · Pro: $19 a month, with $20 of usageSupermemory · Max: $100 a month, with $130 of usage and GmailSupermemory · Scale: $399 a month, self-hosting option; Enterprise: customSupermemory · Usage beyond the plan is charged per token and per searchSupermemory’s site

Smart Jelly or Supermemory?

Is Supermemory an app I can just install?

Mostly it’s a developer platform: an API, plugins for AI tools, an MCP server and a browser extension. Smart Jelly is a Mac app that starts remembering once you install it.

Can Supermemory run on my own computer?

Yes, with its self-hosted server for macOS and Linux, on its larger plans; connectors stay in its cloud. Smart Jelly keeps your memory encrypted on your Mac on every plan.

Can I use both?

Yes. Supermemory adds memory to software you build and to your AI tools. Smart Jelly builds a memory of your own work and can share it with other AI tools over MCP.

Still unsure? Write to us, and a person replies: hello@smartjelly.ai