# A Rewind alternative that keeps running on your Mac.

Earlyn is a Mac app that does what Rewind did, a private and searchable memory of your screen and meetings, and it keeps working on your Mac after the Rewind app stopped capturing on 19 December 2025.

## What happened to Rewind

- On 5 December 2025 Limitless, the company behind Rewind, announced that it had been acquired by Meta and that it was sunsetting Rewind.
- On 19 December 2025 the Rewind Mac app disabled screen and audio capture. Users were offered tools to export their data.

## What Earlyn does

|  | Earlyn |
| --- | --- |
| Screen memory with a timeline | Yes: [Rewind](https://www.earlyn.app/features/rewind), about one look per second, stored when the text changes |
| Search | By word and by meaning, with operators and period words |
| Questions about your history | Yes, with the moments cited; the model runs on your Mac unless you choose a cloud key |
| Meetings | On-device transcription in any language, speakers, summaries, live translation |
| Where data lives | Only on your Mac, encrypted (SQLCipher and AES-GCM) |
| Account needed to use it | No; an account is only for buying Pro |
| AI agent access | Local MCP server for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, Gemini CLI |
| Price | 7 days free with everything, then $19 a month |
| Requirements | macOS 14 or later on Apple Silicon |

## Moving over

Earlyn cannot import a Rewind export today; it starts remembering from the moment you install it. Your Rewind export stays useful on its own, and Earlyn's [file indexing](https://www.earlyn.app/features/files) can read exported text files if you put them in a folder you add.

## When Earlyn is not the right choice

- You use an Intel Mac, Windows or Linux.
- You want your memory synced to a phone or across computers; Earlyn keeps it on one Mac on purpose.
- You want a wearable that records conversations away from the computer.

## Sources

- [9to5Mac: Rewind Mac app shutting down following Meta's acquisition of Limitless](https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/05/rewind-limitless-meta-acquisition/), accessed 2026-10-02

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Canonical: https://www.earlyn.app/alternatives/rewind-ai · Updated 2026-10-02