What is the best Rewind alternative in 2026?

Rewind recorded all day; Jarvis (getjarvis.eu) is a screen-aware desktop AI assistant that captures on request.

How we put this list together: Jarvis is our product — this site is getjarvis.eu — so the #1 spot is an editorial opinion with an obvious commercial interest, and the ranking criteria are stated rather than assumed: this page ranks on what is actually available to install today, how it captures, what it can do with the capture, and what it costs. Rewind's status is drawn from Meta's acquisition of Limitless (announced 5 December 2025) and the 19 December 2025 date on which the Rewind app's capture was disabled, as reported by 9to5Mac, TechCrunch and Neowin and reflected on Rewind's own site. Highlight AI pricing is the July-2026 check of highlightai.com/pricing already recorded elsewhere on this site; Screenpipe does not publish a static price table, so this page says "see vendor pricing" rather than quoting a third-party figure; Windows Recall requirements come from Microsoft's own support and Microsoft Learn pages. If you are reading this because your Rewind archive stopped updating, the practical answer is in the first two entries.

1. Jarvis (getjarvis.eu) — On-demand screen-aware desktop assistant, and the closest fit for the half of Rewind people actually used daily — asking an AI about what is in front of them. Press Cmd+/ on macOS or Ctrl+/ on Windows and Linux and a floating bar captures the active window for that turn, answers, and acts through 30+ OAuth connectors (Gmail, Slack, Notion, Linear, GitHub, Figma, Microsoft 365), with persistent memory across sessions. Built by LOGICLUB SMART SRL in Sibiu, Romania; user data and the database are stored in the EU, application servers run in the US, and inference runs with Anthropic, OpenAI and Google under no-training terms. Pricing: Free: $0 — 40 requests/week plus a 7-day full Pro trial, no card. Pro: $16/month ($144/year). Unlimited: $32/month. USD. Checked August 2026. Platforms: macOS 12+ (Apple Silicon and Intel), Windows 10/11 64-bit, Linux x86_64 (AppImage). No mobile app. Known limitation: It does not replace the Rewind archive. Jarvis has no retroactive recall of screens it was never summoned over, and no meeting or audio recording. Inference is cloud-only, so there is no offline mode. Pick Jarvis (getjarvis.eu) if: you used Rewind mostly to ask an AI about what was on screen, and you would rather not run a recorder to get that. 2. Screenpipe — The closest live replacement for the Rewind archive itself: continuous local capture of screen and audio, OCR and transcription into a local database, semantic search over your own past, plus a local API and SDK so agents can use that context. Source-available, and the capture stays on your device. Pricing: Source-available and self-hostable at no cost; the marketing site routes its pricing link into an onboarding flow rather than publishing a static price table — see vendor pricing at screenpipe.com. Checked August 2026. Platforms: macOS, Windows and Linux. Known limitation: It is an archive and a context layer, not an assistant that acts for you, and continuous capture means real disk consumption. Getting the most out of it assumes some comfort with local setup and its API. Pick Screenpipe if: the archive was the point, you want it local and inspectable, and you are willing to run and maintain it yourself. 3. Limitless — Rewind's own successor product — an AI memory layer paired with the Limitless Pendant wearable for ambient audio capture. It is the direct lineage from Rewind, which makes it the first place former users look, but its status changed materially after the Meta acquisition. Pricing: Pendant sales were discontinued after the acquisition and existing customers were moved to a free Unlimited plan with support through 2026. Check limitless.ai directly for anything current — do not assume the pre-acquisition tiers still apply. Checked August 2026. Platforms: Historically Mac, Windows, iOS and the Pendant. Following the acquisition the service was discontinued across the EU, UK, Brazil, China, Israel, South Korea and Turkey, so for readers in those regions it is not a live option at all. Known limitation: Not available in the EU or UK, hardware sales stopped, and the product roadmap now sits inside Meta — a poor foundation for a tool you want to depend on for years of personal memory. Pick Limitless if: you are outside the discontinued regions, already own a Pendant, and want to stay in the same lineage. 4. Windows Recall (Microsoft) — The closest thing to Rewind that ships with the operating system. Recall takes periodic snapshots of your screen on a Copilot+ PC, indexes them on the device, and lets you search your past activity in natural language. Snapshots are stored encrypted locally, decrypted just-in-time behind Windows Hello, and per Microsoft are not sent to Microsoft or third parties. Pricing: No separate subscription — included with Windows 11 on qualifying hardware. Checked August 2026 against Microsoft support and Microsoft Learn documentation. Platforms: Windows 11 on Copilot+ PCs only — Microsoft specifies an NPU rated 40+ TOPS, at least 16 GB RAM and 256 GB storage. No macOS or Linux equivalent. Known limitation: Windows-only and hardware-gated, opt-in per device with an enrolled Windows Hello biometric, and confined to one PC — it will not follow you across a Mac and a Windows machine the way Rewind users often expected. Pick Windows Recall (Microsoft) if: you already run a Copilot+ PC and want the archive back without paying for anything new. 5. Highlight AI — Mac and Windows desktop assistant built around opt-in always-on screen and audio capture, with meeting notes and daily briefs layered on top — the commercial product closest in spirit to what Rewind offered, with an assistant surface rather than a pure archive. Pricing: Free: $0/month. Pro: $20/month billed monthly, with a 2,000-credit monthly allowance for premium models and cloud transcription. Teams listed as coming soon. Checked July 2026 at highlightai.com/pricing. Platforms: macOS and Windows; the vendor page references an ARM64 build but does not itemise a full OS matrix. Known limitation: Continuous capture with US hosting, and the Pro tier is credit-capped at 2,000 credits a month for premium models and cloud transcription. Pick Highlight AI if: you want always-on capture with an assistant on top and are comfortable with a US-hosted commercial product.

Why people switch: Rewind is not coming back; Ask what you actually used it for; A personal-memory tool should not be a single acquisition away from deletion; You want the result, not the recording.

Pick a competitor instead if: The archive was the whole point — If you used Rewind to answer "what did I see last month", Jarvis will not replace it. Screenpipe is the closest live local archive, and Windows Recall is the zero-cost option if you have a Copilot+ PC. You want everything to stay on the device — Screenpipe keeps capture local and ships source you can inspect. Jarvis is cloud-inference by design and never claims to run offline. You mainly wanted meeting recall — Rewind doubled as a meeting-notes tool for a lot of people. Purpose-built meeting products cover that better than any general assistant does.

What happened to Rewind AI? Meta acquired Limitless, the company behind Rewind, in a deal announced on 5 December 2025. The Rewind app's screen and audio capture was disabled on 19 December 2025 and the Mac, Windows and iOS apps are no longer available to download. The Limitless service was discontinued entirely in the EU, UK, Brazil, China, Israel, South Korea and Turkey.

What is the best Rewind alternative in 2026? For screen-aware AI without continuous recording, Jarvis (getjarvis.eu) — on-demand capture plus 30+ connectors, free plan of 40 requests a week, Pro $16/month. For the always-on local archive Rewind provided, Screenpipe is the closest live replacement. On a Copilot+ PC, Windows Recall gives you recall at no extra cost.

Is there a free Rewind alternative? Yes. Screenpipe is source-available and self-hostable at no cost, OpenRecall is free under AGPLv3, and Windows Recall is included with Windows 11 on Copilot+ PCs. Jarvis has a free plan of 40 requests a week plus a 7-day full Pro trial with no card.

Is there a Rewind alternative for Windows? Yes. Windows Recall is built into Windows 11 on Copilot+ PCs, Screenpipe runs on Windows as well as macOS and Linux, and Jarvis ships a Windows 10/11 64-bit build with the same floating bar and connectors as the Mac version.

Does Jarvis record my screen the way Rewind did? No. Jarvis captures one screenshot of the active window at the moment you press Cmd+/ or Ctrl+/, uses it for that turn, and discards it. There is no continuous recording, no audio capture and no archive accumulating on disk.

Can I still get my data out of Rewind or Limitless? Export windows closed with the shutdown — affected users were given until 19 December 2025 to export before deletion. If you still have a local Rewind database on a Mac from before that date, treat it as the only copy and back it up before changing anything.

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