Big milestone today: Basic Memory Cloud is officially live in open beta.
If you’ve been following along with our local-first release, this update brings everything great about Basic Memory—Markdown-based, user-owned and controlled—into a new cloud environment designed to make your memory available everywhere you work.
What’s New
- Multi-LLM support: Basic Memory Cloud now works with all LLMs that support remote MCP, including Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini CLI. Start a research thread in Claude on your laptop, continue it in ChatGPT on your phone, and reference it later in Gemini—without losing any context. It’s also designed to work in Claude Code and Codex, letting you bring your memory to whatever environment you prefer.
- Cross-device support: desktop, web, tablet, and phone. Whether you’re chatting on your laptop or referencing notes on your phone, your memory is always within reach.
- A note-taking web app: your memories now live in one simple, accessible interface. The new web app gives you a dedicated place to browse, edit, and manage everything you and your AIs have built together.
The Big Idea
Basic Memory started as an experiment in local-first AI memory, a way to retain your context in plain Markdown so your knowledge lives in a format both you and AI can understand. That principle hasn’t changed.
Cloud just extends the idea: your same files, still yours, but now accessible across devices and interfaces: portable, accessible, and ready wherever and whenever you are.
If you’re the kind of person who keeps long-running projects, prompts, or research threads alive across multiple AIs, this release will be a huge leap forward. Even if you only use one AI, your knowledge should belong to you and you alone. That’s what we’re building toward.
Pricing
During beta, lock in Basic Memory Cloud at $14.25/month forever (25% off the $19 launch price). Includes a 7-day free trial.
A Note to our Community
Our open-source version isn’t going anywhere. The local-first version remains fully supported and free for everyone who prefers to self-host or keep their notes local.
Cloud is an additional layer, one we built because so many of you asked for a way to use Basic Memory across devices and models without giving up ownership or transparency.
To everyone who participated in customer interviews, tested, filed issues, broke things, and kept sending thoughtful feedback: thank you. We can’t wait to hear what you think of Cloud, and how you’ll use it in your workflows.
Please feel free to share your impressions, bugs, and wish-lists in our Discord. It’s still the easiest place to find us.
The Basic Memory Team