A Rewind alternative that stays private.
Rewind proved people want a searchable memory for their Mac, then Meta acquired Limitless and shut it down. Overshow keeps the recall and drops the risks: text instead of video, your Mac instead of a cloud account, and a file you keep instead of a service you rent.
The same idea, built the opposite way.
The good ideas survive the company that had them. What changes is everything around the recall.
Four demands for any replacement.
Judge a recall tool on these before features, so you never have to migrate twice.
Where the data lives
If your history sits in someone else's cloud, every acquisition, policy change, and breach is your problem. Overshow keeps one encrypted database on your Mac and nothing else.
What is actually stored
A rolling screen recording is a heavy, sensitive archive. Overshow stores text and metadata: the window you work in is read as text, nothing visual is kept, and meetings become transcripts rather than audio archives.
What happens if the vendor disappears
Your Overshow memory stays on your device and nothing you captured is deleted. Capture, transcription, search, and Ask run on-device, so the app on your Mac does not stop working when a server does. Rewind users lost the app and, in some regions, the data as well.
Who the AI is
Transcription, search, and answers run on Apple silicon. Connecting a cloud AI client is an explicit, revocable choice, never a default.
What happened to Rewind, exactly.
The company was the privacy model, and when it changed hands the model changed with it. The demand did not go anywhere, but the record of what happened is already blurring, so here it is with dates and sources.
- April 2024Rewind AI renamed itself Limitless and pivoted to the Pendant wearable. The Rewind Mac app carried on under the new company; no acquisition was involved at this point.
- 5 December 2025Meta announced it had acquired Limitless, with the team joining its Reality Labs wearables division. Pendant sales stopped the same day.
- 5 December 2025Service was withdrawn immediately in the UK, the EU, Brazil, China, Israel, South Korea, and Turkey. Users there had until 19 December to download their data, after which accounts and everything in them were permanently deleted.
- 19 December 2025A final update disabled all screen and audio capture, ending the Rewind Mac app everywhere. No alternative service or migration path was offered, only a data export.
- Since thenThe rewind.ai domain has been repurposed by an unaffiliated party and now serves SEO content; the site itself states it has no connection to the original Rewind, Limitless, or Meta.
The honest trade-offs
Overshow is not a pixel-perfect clone, on purpose. There is no video timeline to scrub, because no video is kept. Audio is captured only during meetings, not all day. It runs on macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later on Apple silicon with at least 16 GB RAM, one device per account. If those constraints fit how you work, the result is the part of Rewind people actually used, without the archive of everything you have ever looked at.
Sources:TechCrunch, 17 April 2024TechCrunch, 5 December 20259to5Mac, 5 December 2025Rewind.ai, current status
Questions former Rewind users ask.
Can I import my Rewind archive?
No. Overshow cannot read a Rewind export, and we would rather say that plainly than imply a migration path exists. If you downloaded your data before the December 2025 deletion deadline, keep the export safe; Overshow starts from the day you install it and builds forward.
Do I need an account?
Yes. The account handles sign-in, billing, the one-device limit, and basic service operations. Captured history stays in an encrypted database on your Mac and is not uploaded by default. If you deliberately attach a reviewable search-context diagnostic to feedback, that diagnostic can include captured text and is uploaded with your submission.
Does it work with Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams?
Yes. Overshow recognises common meeting apps and browser calls and transcribes their audio locally once a meeting is detected. For an unrecognised surface, start recording manually. There is no bot or per-platform service integration.
What hardware does it need?
A Mac with Apple silicon, at least 16 GB RAM, and macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later. Intel Macs are not supported: transcription, search, and answers all run on-device, and that is the hardware they need.
What happens if Overshow shuts down?
Your data is already on your Mac, so nothing needs rescuing, and nothing you captured is deleted. The app runs on your machine and keeps working without a server; only the recall window depends on a live subscription. Rewind users had their app switched off and, in some regions, their accounts deleted.
Related comparisons.
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Free keeps the last 7 days searchable, forever. Pro keeps your whole history. Every account starts with a 7-day Pro trial, no card required.
macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later, Apple silicon, and at least 16 GB RAM. Pro's standard price is £60/month including UK VAT; join at launch and keep the £12/month including UK VAT launch price while your subscription remains active.