ReMyndIf you are looking for a Rewind AI alternative, you already know the difficult part: Rewind is not coming back. Recording in the Mac app was disabled for good on 19 December 2025, and the downloads were removed. The company had renamed itself Limitless in 2024, moved its focus to a wearable pendant, and was acquired by Meta in 2025.
That leaves a specific kind of person stranded — someone who deliberately chose a tool that kept a searchable memory of their work on their own machine, and who now needs somewhere to go.
This page compares the four options that actually exist, including ours, and says plainly where a competitor is the better pick.
What Rewind did, and why it is gone
Rewind ran quietly on your Mac and recorded your screen. It ran OCR over what it captured, so every word you had ever seen became searchable — including text inside images, video calls and apps that sync nothing. Later it added "Ask Rewind", which answered questions from that archive instead of from the open web.
The shutdown was not a surprise so much as the end of a drift. The 2024 rename to Limitless came with a shift toward a wearable pendant and a cloud service; the Mac app went into maintenance. The Meta acquisition finished the journey. Whatever you think of Meta, a continuous log of everything you have looked at is a different proposition inside an advertising company than it was inside a small Mac software team.
Work out what you are actually replacing
"Rewind alternative" means three different things to three different people, and picking wrong is how you end up migrating twice.
Screen capture and replay. Scrubbing back through a visual timeline to see a document, a demo, or a whiteboard you closed weeks ago. This is the hardest capability to replace and the one fewest tools have.
Search over what you saw. OCR across every captured frame, so you can find a number from a screen share or a name from a message in an app with no export.
Ask. An AI grounded in your own history. This needs the archive and a reasoning layer on top of it, which is a meaningfully higher bar than search.
Decide which of the three you relied on before you read the table.
The comparison
| ReMynd | Limitless | Screenpipe | Microsoft Recall | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Continuous capture | Screen + calls | Audio via pendant | Screen + mic, event-driven | Screen snapshots |
| On-device vs cloud | On-device by default | Cloud (now Meta) | Fully local | On-device, encrypted |
| Bring your own LLM | Yes, via LM Studio | No | Yes, via Ollama | No |
| Call transcripts | Zoom today; Meet, Teams, Slack in progress | Yes, audio-first | Mic capture, DIY | No |
| Platform | macOS | Wearable + cloud | macOS, Windows, Linux | Windows, Copilot+ only |
| Price | Free; pay only for optional cloud storage | Discontinued for new customers | Free, MIT licensed | Bundled with Copilot+ PCs |
Who should pick what
Pick ReMynd if you are on a Mac and you want the whole Rewind experience back — capture, OCR search, and an AI that answers from your own week — without the archive living on someone else's servers. Capture and OCR run on your device. Cloud backup is optional, encrypted, and exportable to your own S3 bucket, so your memory is never locked inside our infrastructure. Read how on-device memory works if the architecture matters to you, and it should.
Pick Screenpipe if you want an open-source, fully local, cross-platform tool and you are comfortable with setup. It is MIT licensed, written in Rust, runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, works with Ollama, and is genuinely free. Its event-driven capture — screenshotting on app switches, clicks and scroll pauses rather than on a timer — is a smart design that keeps CPU around 5–10%. If you want to read every line of code that touches your screen history, this is the honest answer and we would rather tell you than pretend otherwise. See the full ReMynd vs Screenpipe comparison.
Pick Microsoft Recall if you are on Windows with qualifying hardware. After a rough 2024 launch, Microsoft rebuilt the privacy model: opt-in, snapshots and the vector index always encrypted, just-in-time decryption behind Windows Hello. It is a reasonable timeline search. It is also Windows-only, which ends the conversation for most Rewind refugees. More in ReMynd vs Microsoft Recall.
Do not start with Limitless. It is the direct descendant of Rewind, which is exactly the problem — the pendant is no longer sold to new customers and support winds down through 2026. If you own one, use it while support lasts and plan your exit. The ReMynd vs Limitless comparison covers migration.
An honest note on privacy claims
Be sceptical of absolutes, including from us. Any real application makes some network calls — sign-in, licence checks, crash reporting — and an app promising that literally nothing ever reaches a network is either wrong or has not thought about where the boundary sits.
The claim worth making is narrower and checkable: your captured memory is never in our cloud. It is on your Mac, or in a bucket you own, with your keys, never pooled, never trained on, never sold. Everything else is detail you are entitled to ask about.