Rewind stopped capturing on December 19, 2025. LUCI picks up where it left off on macOS: a searchable memory of your screen and your meetings that lives on your own Mac, works with the network off, and can be read by the AI agents you already use. Free.
A local AI memory app keeps a searchable record of your own work on your own machine, with the capture, the understanding, and the storage all happening there rather than in a vendor's cloud. LUCI is a free desktop app for Mac and Windows from Memories AI that remembers your screen and meetings on your own device and gives that memory to AI agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. On the Mac the category was defined by Rewind, which shut its capture off in December 2025. The open question since is who holds the record, and the honest answer should be you.
Rewind's parent company rebranded to Limitless, pivoted to a cloud-connected Pendant, and was acquired by Meta in December 2025. New Pendant sales stopped. Screen and audio capture in the Mac app was disabled on December 19, 2025, and rewind.ai now serves a parked page. Existing Pendant customers kept the Unlimited Plan for at least a year, but the Mac product people actually searched for is gone. The full timeline, and six other replacements, are in the Rewind AI alternatives roundup.
Plenty of apps say local and still send audio to a transcription provider or text to a model vendor. LUCI keeps capture, on-device understanding, and storage on your Mac, encrypted at rest. Pull the Wi-Fi and search still answers. That is the version of local you can check yourself.
Every word — yours and theirs — in meetings and calls, transcribed on your Mac and linked to whatever was on screen at the time. A tool that only keeps screenshots replaces half of what Rewind was used for.
Rewind was acquirable, so it was acquired, and the app stopped capturing on a date somebody else picked. LUCI keeps your memory in files on your own disk. If you stop using the app, the record does not go anywhere.
Rewind screenshotted everything every couple of seconds and charged about ten percent of your battery an hour for the privilege, banking apps and password fields included. LUCI captures what you put in scope. Cards, keys, and passwords are blacked out before anything is saved.
Two of these are listed because search results still send people to them. Details come from each vendor's own documentation; a dash means we could not source the answer.
| Tool | Platform | Screen capture | Meeting audio | Where data is processed | Works with AI agents | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LUCI | Mac & Windows | Continuous, with on-device understanding | Yours and theirs, in meetings and calls | On your device, encrypted at rest | Claude, Cursor, Codex | Free |
| Rewind AI | macOS — capture disabled Dec 19, 2025 | Screenshots every few seconds | Audio capture | On-device; some text sent to OpenAI | No | No longer available |
| Limitless | Pendant + app | No screen capture | Wearable Pendant, audio only | Cloud | No | Not available for new users |
| Screenpipe | Mac, Windows, Linux | 24/7 capture with OCR | Yes | On-device | No | Free tier; $21/mo or $250/yr |
| OpenAI Codex Chronicle | macOS only | Screen, scoped to coding work | — | Screenshots sent to OpenAI | Codex only | Requires ChatGPT Pro |
| Granola | Mac & Windows | No screen capture | Yes, bot-free | Cloud transcription, US-hosted AWS | No | Free tier; $14–$35/user/mo |
Rewind was something you visited. You opened it, scrolled, found the thing, went back to work. The useful question on a Mac in 2026 is whether Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex can reach the same memory without you in the middle. Works with Claude, Cursor, and Codex — LUCI connects itself, nothing to set up.
Each evening your agent distills the day into your Life folder: plain files on your Mac, in your own words, that you can read or delete like anything else on disk. More on the idea in agent memory, and on what gets captured in the screen recorder overview.
It is an app that keeps a record of your own work on your own Mac — what was on screen, what was said in meetings — and lets you search it in plain language, without shipping the record to a vendor's servers to be indexed. The test is simple: turn off Wi-Fi and see whether search still works.
Rewind's parent company, renamed Limitless, was acquired by Meta in December 2025. Screen and audio capture in the Mac app was disabled on December 19, 2025, and the rewind.ai domain now serves a parked page. Existing Pendant customers were kept on the Unlimited Plan for at least a year, but the Rewind Mac product is no longer sold or actively developed.
It replaces the two things people used Rewind for: a searchable record of what was on screen, and recall of what was said on calls. It does not reproduce Rewind's always-on firehose that screenshotted everything every two seconds — the design behind most of the battery-drain and accidental-capture complaints. You choose what is in scope.
LUCI runs on modern Macs and uses the hardware you already have to accelerate on-device understanding. There is no separate hardware requirement, unlike Microsoft Recall on Windows, which needs a Copilot+ PC.
Capture, on-device understanding, and storage all happen on your Mac, encrypted at rest. LUCI keeps working with the network off. When you connect an AI agent, that agent reads the slices it asks for, and those slices become part of its conversation — so you choose which agents you connect.
Nothing. LUCI is free on Mac and Windows. Rewind charged $19 a month and capped free-tier search at roughly ten queries a month on data sitting on your own disk.
Screen and meetings, searchable, on your own Mac.
Free. Encrypted at rest. Works with the network off.