[ianmabie]

They acquired Limitless AI in 2025 which had pivoted from “record and rewind anything on your Mac” to a hardware pendant “granola for everything” product. It was not in market for very long prior to the acquisition.

Hardware was very nice & sorry to see they sold. Mine sits in my desk now :/

[LoganDark]

Limitless used to be Rewind that maintained one of the most useful pieces of software on my Mac, and I use a cracked version now because I refuse to give it up. There is nothing else like it yet. I seem to recall some other thing that aims to be similar, but that might be cross-platform or otherwise Linux-ish which discounted it as a practical alternative. (I don't remember its name unfortunately)

[satvikpendem]

What is so good about limitless over the others?

[LoganDark]

I said Rewind, as that's what the company and product was called at that point before they rebranded to Limitless (and completely abandoned Rewind). The product called Limitless had no relation to Rewind and no plans to integrate Rewind's functionality. Rewind's website continued to exist and continued to accept payments, which is how I found and purchased the app, but there were no updates.

- Rewind uses Apple's on-device OCR (Live Text). That alone sets it apart from every other screen recorder, I've never seen another - you can search by any text that has ever been captured on-screen. I do not trust any OCR other than Live Text.

- The on-disk format is fairly compact. Over 7 months of recording is still under 250 GB on my machine.

- It records the URL in Safari so you can return to any web page you have ever visited without having to rely on OCR of the address bar, which isn't even displayed anymore most of the time.

I haven't used most of its other features.

Unfortunately, it's been breaking recently as macOS updates. For instance, notification banners no longer show up in the recordings. This actually removes a huge part of the utility for me, as I used to be able to use Rewind to catch notifications I didn't see in time, but that is no longer possible. So now when I see a notification slide away in the corner of my vision, I just have to accept that there's nothing I can do to ever see what it was (most notifications do not go to Notification Center on my machine; not sure why).

Also, Rewind crashes so often that I need to have a script in crontab to automatically restart it.

[satvikpendem]

Thanks for the answer. Have you tried building your own solution? Seems like some others have [0], would be interesting to hear what you think of them.

I'm similarly thinking of making a fully local granola competitor just for personal use as I also like having everything on my own machine too.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1qnr2f3/os_opensou...

[htrp]

Was there any ongoing support there? Or do you basically have a fancy paperweight?