The tapes are saved. The memories aren't findable.
Digitizing solves preservation. It doesn't solve the next problem.
This is what Orcah reads.
A 1993 VHS capture from the U.S. Capitol — soft, interlaced, exactly the kind of tape sitting in shoeboxes. Orcah indexes it like any modern file.
This is what asking feels like.
Describe the moment in plain English. Orcah searches the index and lands on the scene — no scrubbing, no filenames.
From tapes to searchable in four steps.
Orcah indexes video files, so the tapes need to be digitized first. After that, it does the remembering.
Digitize your tapes
Capture with a USB capture device or a conversion service. Standard .mp4 or .mov files are all Orcah needs.
Point Orcah at the folder
An internal drive, an SSD or a NAS. Your files stay exactly where they are — Orcah links to them in place.
Let it index
Speech, faces, objects, on-screen text and scenes are all computed on your Mac. No uploads, no servers.
Just ask
Describe the moment however it lives in your head. The agent plans the search and brings back the scene with timecodes.
Four ways into a tape.
Search by what was said, who was there, what it looked like, or what was written on screen.
By words
Transcription with speaker labels. Search "first day of school" and land on the second it was said.
By faces
Label a person once, then find every scene they're in across every tape in the library.
By look
Describe a scene — beach, birthday cake, snow — or drop in a frame you already have and find similar shots.
By on-screen text
Camcorder date stamps, signs and captions caught on camera become searchable too.
Pay once.
Keep it forever.
The public beta price. Updates are included for a full year.