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Rewind pioneered “search everything you've seen on your Mac.” Its app is now discontinued: the team pivoted to the Limitless wearable, Meta acquired Limitless in December 2025, and rewind.ai today hosts an unrelated site. LokalBot's day timeline carries the idea forward — smaller, open source, and processed on your Mac with the built-in backend.
Last verified July 2026 · spot something outdated? Open an issue.
| Feature | LokalBot | Rewind (as it was) |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Actively developed | Discontinued — the team moved to Limitless, now part of Meta |
| Screen memory | Periodic screenshots + OCR, opt-in, searchable by every word | Continuous compressed screen recording, always on |
| Meeting notes | Bot-free capture with Me / Them tracks, summarized locally | Local capture; “Ask Rewind” answers were generated with cloud AI |
| Retention | Deleted after 14 days by default; keeping longer is an explicit opt-in | Grew until you trimmed it yourself |
| Encryption at rest | Screenshots are AES-GCM encrypted on disk | Stored locally on disk |
| System-wide dictation | Hold ⌥ Space in any app | No |
| Writing autocomplete | Cotyping, in almost any app | No |
| Source code | Open source, GPLv3 | Proprietary |
| Price | Free | Was subscription-based; no longer purchasable |
| Platforms | macOS 15+ on Apple Silicon | macOS (app no longer available) |
That's where Rewind's team and ambition went.
You want the Rewind workflow on today's Mac — with source you can read.
Questions
Not entirely, and it doesn't try to be. Rewind recorded your screen continuously and let you scrub it like a video. LokalBot takes periodic screenshots with OCR plus app and window tracking — lighter on disk, easier to reason about, and combined with full meeting capture. You get the search and the timeline, not the video scrubber.
The company behind it shifted to Limitless, a wearable pendant with cloud-hosted memory, and stopped developing the Mac app. Meta acquired Limitless in December 2025. The rewind.ai domain now hosts an unrelated service — the original app is simply gone.
Recall is Windows-only and drew heavy privacy scrutiny. LokalBot's timeline is for the Mac, off until you turn it on, encrypted at rest, auto-deleting after 14 days by default — and the code that does all of that is open for you to audit.
Download
Free and open source. Models download on first use; built-in inference then works offline.
Download for macOS.dmg installer · all releases and notes
Rewind and Limitless are trademarks of their owners; LokalBot is not affiliated with or endorsed by them. Details are based on public reporting as of July 2026 — if something here is wrong or out of date, open an issue and we'll fix it.