The best Rewind AI alternatives for Mac

Rewind was a Mac app that recorded your screen and audio and let you search everything you had seen, said or heard. Its company, Limitless, went on to make the Limitless Pendant, a wearable that records conversations, and a desktop and web app for meetings. On December 5, 2025, Limitless said it had been acquired by Meta, and that its team was joining Meta to build AI wearables (Limitless, 9to5Mac).

• Rewind is being sunset. Its last update switched off all screen and audio capture from December 19, 2025.
• The Pendant stopped selling on December 5, 2025. Limitless says it supports it throughout 2026, and existing owners get the Unlimited plan free, with no subscription.
• Recording in the Limitless desktop and web apps is ending; recorded meetings stay readable throughout 2026.
• From December 5, 2025, the service stopped in the EU, the UK, Brazil, China, Israel, South Korea and Turkey. People there had until December 19, 2025 to download their data, and then accounts and data were deleted.

One more thing to know: the rewind.ai address now belongs to an unrelated website selling AI tools, with no link to Limitless or Meta. Use limitless.ai for anything about your old account.

We make Koi, the first pick below, so read this with that in mind. Every fact about the other apps comes from their own sites or GitHub pages, checked October 21, 2026, in USD.

Rewind and Limitless did three different jobs, and no single app on this page does all three. Work out which one you miss:

• A searchable history of your screen. Everything you saw, scrubbable by time. Screenpipe is the closest match, and OpenRecall is a free open-source take.
• Meeting notes. Calls recorded and summarized, with no bot. Koi and Granola AI cover this.
• Conversations away from the desk. The Pendant recorded in person. Koi records a meeting, a class or a talk in the room from your Mac's microphone, but there's no wearable here.

1. Download Koi, sign in, and allow the microphone and Screen Recording when macOS asks. Screen Recording is what lets Koi hear the other side of a call.
2. Join a call. Click Record when the dock asks “Record this call?”, or tap Fn + ⌃ and pick Online call.
3. Pick Audio only or Audio and video. Koi writes the call down on your Mac as You and Them while it goes.
4. Stop the recording. The call opens as a document, and Koi asks “Summarize this call?”. Yes adds a title, summary and your to-dos.
5. Weeks later, tap the call keys and ask “what did we decide about the launch date?”. Koi searches your calls and pages and answers.

For a class or a talk in the room, pick In person instead. Our guides cover Zoom, in-person meetings and lectures.

Rewind's promise was perfect memory: whatever you saw, it had. That's useful when you need to find a page you closed last week. It's also a record of everything on your screen, private messages included, unless you exclude them, and Screenpipe plans for about 30 GB of it a month.

Koi takes the narrower road. It keeps what you choose to keep: calls you record, documents you write, dictations, and chats with Koi, all as files on your Mac. It only sees your screen when you ask it something, and takes no picture while a password is being typed. The cost is that it can't find something you only glanced at. If that's what you miss most about Rewind, Screenpipe is your pick. If it was meetings, Koi or Granola will do.

• Miss the meeting notes and want them kept on your Mac? Koi.
• Miss the searchable screen history? Screenpipe, or OpenRecall if it must be free and open source.
• Want an always-on memory and don't mind the cloud? Littlebird, or Highlight AI.
• Want notes on your phone too? Granola AI.

More: the best local meeting notes apps for Mac, the best call recorders for Mac, and Koi's plans, where Lifetime is $59 for the first 25 buyers, rising to $199.