Pieces
AI-powered developer productivity tool
Pieces is an AI-powered productivity tool for developers that intelligently saves, organizes, and resurfaces code snippets, links, and notes from your workflow. With on-device AI processing and deep integrations across browsers, IDEs, and collaboration tools, Pieces acts as a long-term memory layer for your entire development workstream.
Key Capabilities
Pieces automatically captures and organizes code snippets, documents, and conversations from your workflow without interruption. The platform features on-device AI that runs locally by default, ensuring complete data privacy. Advanced OCR and machine learning extract code from screenshots, while AI-powered search helps you find saved materials instantly. The Copilot feature provides contextualized coding assistance with awareness of your saved snippets and workflow history spanning up to 9 months of personal context.
Who Should Use Pieces
Pieces is designed for individual developers and engineering teams who frequently context-switch between projects and need a reliable system for capturing and retrieving code knowledge. It is especially valuable for developers who work across multiple repositories, reference documentation frequently, or want AI assistance that understands their personal coding patterns and saved resources.
Getting Started
Download the Pieces desktop application for macOS, Windows, or Linux from pieces.app. Install the companion browser extension and IDE plugin for your preferred editor to enable automatic snippet capture. Start saving code snippets, and Pieces will organize and enrich them with metadata automatically.
Pricing & Accessibility: Pieces offers a free Individual plan with 9 months of personal context, Copilot-style code assistance, and desktop apps for all major operating systems. A Teams plan with shared context, custom LLM support, and priority support is available with pricing upon request. A 14-day free trial is available for team features.
Why Consider Pieces: Pieces takes a privacy-first approach by running AI entirely on-device by default, giving developers powerful snippet management and copilot features without sending any code to the cloud.
Pros
- On-device AI processing ensures complete data privacy by default
- Cross-platform desktop app with browser and IDE integrations
- AI-powered OCR extracts code from screenshots automatically
- Long-term context memory spanning up to 9 months of workflow history
- Free individual plan with generous feature set
Cons
- Teams plan pricing is not publicly listed and requires contacting sales
- Primarily focused on snippet management rather than full code generation
- Learning curve to fully integrate into existing workflow habits
Who is this for?
Saving and organizing code snippets across projects, extracting code from screenshots and documentation, AI-assisted code search and retrieval, maintaining long-term developer workflow memory, team knowledge sharing and collaboration
Frequently Asked Questions about Pieces
Does Pieces send my code to the cloud?
No, Pieces runs AI processing entirely on-device by default. Your code, snippets, and workflow data stay local on your machine unless you explicitly choose to use cloud features. This privacy-first approach gives developers full control over their data.
What IDEs and browsers does Pieces integrate with?
Pieces integrates with popular IDEs including VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, and more through dedicated plugins. Browser extensions are available for Chrome, Edge, and other Chromium-based browsers. The desktop app ties everything together across your workflow.
Is Pieces free for individual developers?
Yes, the Individual plan is free forever and includes 9 months of personal context, Copilot-style code assistance, email support, and desktop apps for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Pricing
freemium
Free
Free tier: Full individual features with 9 months context history
Details
APINo
Open SourceNo
CollaborationYes
LanguagesEnglish
Learning CurveEasy
Integrations
VS CodeJetBrains IDEsChromeEdgeObsidian+2 more
