Rewind AI review, pricing and limits

Last updated: 2026-09-03

Rewind AI captured a Mac or iOS screen every 2 seconds along with meeting audio and made all of it searchable as a personal-memory tool, keeping raw recordings on the device. Meta acquired its maker, Limitless, on 5 December 2025 and disabled capture on 19 December 2025; the apps are no longer available.

About Rewind AI

Rewind AI launched in 2020 as a Mac app that continuously records everything a user sees, hears, and says, then makes it instantly searchable. The company raised a $27M Series A before Meta acquired it in December 2025, folding the technology into Limitless AI, a cloud-based platform built around a wearable pendant. The original Rewind app stays supported for existing users, but new product investment has shifted to Limitless, leaving Rewind in legacy-maintenance mode with an uncertain long-term roadmap.

Pricing

Discontinued. Meta acquired Limitless (formerly Rewind) on 5 December 2025; the Rewind Mac app's screen and audio capture was disabled on 19 December 2025 and the Mac, Windows and iOS apps are no longer available for download. Service ended entirely in the EU, UK, Brazil, South Korea, Israel and Turkey. Last published prices for reference: Free tier at $0/month with perpetual access to existing recordings; Rewind Pro at $19/month billed annually or $29/month billed monthly. The rewind.ai domain now hosts an unrelated third-party site.

Key Features

• Continuous Screen & Audio Recording: Automatically captures screen activity every 2 seconds and records audio from meetings, storing compressed data locally for zero cloud dependency.
• Local AI-Powered Search: Full-text search across all recorded content using OCR and speech-to-text transcription, with advanced filtering by app, date range, and keywords.
• Automatic Meeting Summaries: Generates human-level summaries of meetings and conversations across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams without requiring bots in calls.
• AI Assistant (Ask Rewind): GPT-4-powered conversational interface lets users ask natural language questions about their recorded content and receive contextual answers.
• Privacy-First Local Storage: All recordings stored locally on device with AES-256 encryption; no cloud upload by default, giving users complete control over their data.
• Cross-App Memory: Captures and remembers everything across browsers, Slack, email, Zoom, and other applications so nothing you did on your device is lost from recall.

Pros

• Complete privacy: local-only storage means nothing leaves your device unless you turn on a cloud feature yourself.
• Search finds something from months ago as fast as something from today, which reviewers cite as the main reason they stopped manually organizing notes.
• Meeting summaries are detailed enough that several users report they stopped taking manual notes entirely.
• Setup is minimal: install, grant permissions, and it runs invisibly in the background from day one.
• Support responds quickly to bug reports and feature requests, according to user reviews.

Cons

• High CPU and battery usage, especially on older Intel Macs; optimized primarily for Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3).
• Platform limited to macOS and iOS only; Windows version still in development.
• Significant local storage requirements (4-5x less efficient than Rewind claims for compression, ~50-70GB/month vs. ~15GB/month).
• Uses GPT-4 for AI features, requiring cloud API calls and sending sensitive screen and audio summaries to OpenAI, creating privacy trade-offs.
• The product is in maintenance mode after Meta's December 2025 acquisition, with new investment going to Limitless instead.