Pieces for Developers
AI-powered developer memory tool — saves, organises, and resurfaces code snippets with full context.
Overview
Pieces is an AI assistant designed specifically for developers' long-term memory and productivity. It automatically captures code snippets, terminal outputs, screenshots of code, and notes from anywhere on the developer's computer, enriches them with context (which project, which colleague, what problem was being solved), and makes them searchable through natural language later.
The Copilot feature acts as a personalised coding assistant with memory of everything you have ever saved — when you ask it how to implement something, it searches both its training knowledge and your personal snippet library for relevant examples from your own past work. Over time, it learns your coding patterns and can proactively suggest relevant code.
Pieces runs locally, processing all data on-device, which addresses a critical concern for developers who work with proprietary code. The integrations include VS Code, JetBrains, Chrome, and all major communication tools, capturing useful code fragments from wherever developers encounter them — Slack conversations, email, web pages, or their own terminal.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 11 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- Basic AI capture
- Local-only storage
- Community support
- Limited cloud backup
- Unlimited Claude/Gemini/Grok/ChatGPT
- Full 9-month long-term memory
- Priority support
- Shared team memory
- BYO LLM key (OpenAI/Anthropic/Ollama)
- Phone + email priority support
Use cases
ASEAN Perspective
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Pieces is an unusual developer copilot whose differentiator is OS-level long-term memory: it passively captures context from your editor, browser and chat apps and lets you query it later, alongside a snippet manager and a copilot that now routes to Claude, Gemini, Grok and ChatGPT. The free tier is generous, processing runs locally for privacy, and native plugins for VS Code, JetBrains, Chrome, Obsidian and Xcode plus MCP support make it easy to slot into existing workflows. It suits developers who lose context across many tools and value a privacy-conscious, local-first option. Caveats: the passive-capture model can feel heavy on resources, the memory retention window is bounded at around nine months, and it complements rather than replaces a primary coding agent like Cursor or Copilot. ASEAN access is fine — it's English-language, globally available SaaS with local processing.
What people say
81 reviews on G2 average out to 4.5 stars, and the recurring gripe in the negative ones is resource usage — the desktop client visibly lags when you tab back into your IDE after it's been idle. That's the tax for what Pieces is actually doing in the background: continuously capturing code, terminal output, screenshots and browser context, tagging it locally, and making it searchable months later without sending any of it to a server by default.
The pitch is "developer memory," and on-device processing (Pieces calls the engine LTM-2) is the real differentiator — not another chat window bolted onto an IDE, but a standing local index of everything you've touched, filtered through nine-month retention. The Copilot layer sits on top and now reaches four model families — Claude, Gemini, Grok and ChatGPT — each with fast, balanced and deep-thinking modes, plus its own MCP server so Cursor, Copilot and Claude Desktop can query the same memory. Coverage is wide: VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, Xcode, Sublime Text, Chrome, Obsidian.
Pricing is straightforward: a free tier with local storage and rolling model access, Pro at $18.99/month (or $169.99/year) for unlimited model access and full retention, and Teams by quote for shared memory and bring-your-own-key setups. The company closed a $13.5 million Series A in mid-2024; nothing since. Good fit for developers who bounce between a lot of tools and lose context doing it; overkill if you already live inside one editor and one agent.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
Notable facts
- Pieces processes all data locally, meaning code snippets and developer context never leave the developer's machine — a significant privacy advantage over cloud-based tools.
- The average developer saves over 200 code snippets in their first month of Pieces use, with the AI assistant surfacing relevant snippets 6 months later for related problems.
- Pieces was initially funded by a National Science Foundation grant, unusual for a developer tools startup.
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