In December 2025 Limitless was acquired by Meta, stopped selling the Pendant to new customers, and began sunsetting its desktop product. LUCI is the still-shipping macOS alternative: AI meeting memory you can search and your agents can query, no wearable required, no Big Tech acquirer in your inbox.
In December 2025 Limitless was acquired by Meta, discontinued the Pendant, and pulled service in the EU, UK, and Brazil (among other regions). LUCI is the on-device alternative still shipping in 2026 — AI meeting memory and searchable recall on your Mac, no wearable required.
Read the full Limitless alternatives guide →Life memory for every AI agent — meetings, screen, and everything in between, readable by the agents you already use. No hardware. Still shipping.
Pendant wearable + cloud assistant. Acquired by Meta Dec 2025. Pendant no longer sold. Desktop product sunsetting.
If you bought a Limitless Pendant in 2024 or 2025, you already know the story — Meta acquired the company in December 2025, new Pendant sales stopped, the non-Pendant desktop product is being retired, and service was bricked across the EU, UK, Brazil, China, Israel, South Korea, and Turkey. Refugees from Limitless are searching for an alternative that won't disappear on them. LUCI is a focused macOS app: it captures your meetings the way you already work — through your Mac — and turns them into a searchable memory you and your AI agents can query over MCP. No $99–$199 device to lose, no LED announcing 'I'm recording you,' no acquirer who already cashed out.
LUCI leads on 8 of 10 rows.
| Feature | LUCI | Limitless |
|---|---|---|
| Active development (2026) | Yes | NoPendant + desktop sunsetting |
| Independent (not Big Tech owned) | Yes | NoMeta acquisition Dec 2025 |
| Wearable required | No | Yes$99–$199 Pendant |
| Mac-native app | Yes | PartialBeing de-prioritized |
| Meeting memory across sessions | Yes | PartialLifelog, but search-only |
| Memory accessible to AI agents (MCP) | Yes | NoClosed archive |
| No always-on capture / no LED | Yes | NoAlways-on Pendant |
| No phone battery drain | Yes | No~30% iPhone drain reported |
| Service available worldwide | Yes | NoBricked in EU/UK/BR/CN/IL/KR/TR |
| Pricing | Free — 100% local | $99–$199 hardware + $19/mo (when available) |
Software on the Mac you already own. No wearable. Actively shipping. Free forever.
$99–$199 Pendant + $19/mo when available. Acquired by Meta Dec 2025, new sales stopped.
If you exported transcripts from Limitless, LUCI imports them as searchable memory. Raw Pendant audio is not supported.
No wearable to buy or charge. LUCI captures meetings on your computer — Zoom, Meet, Teams, and in-room audio via mic.
LUCI starts building persistent cross-meeting memory immediately, without an always-on Pendant clipped to your chest.
Limitless gave you a searchable lifelog. LUCI answers from memory — surfacing action items, pulling exact quotes, prepping your next call — and your AI agents can query it over MCP.
Record your screen with an AI that remembers everything — searchable, private, and on-device.
Limitless sold a $99–$199 wearable that's no longer available to new customers. LUCI is software on the Mac you already use — no extra device to clip on, charge nightly, or stop wearing because the company got acquired.
When you record meetings, you're recording what your team, customers, and prospects say. LUCI is an independent macOS app. Limitless conversations now flow into a company owned by the world's largest ad-tech platform.
Limitless gives you a searchable lifelog — you scroll back to find what was said. LUCI turns meeting memory into answers: ask a question in plain language and get the exact quote, the action items, and the context before your next call. Your AI agents can query the same memory over MCP.
Always-on wearable capture means an LED on your chest in every coffee chat, jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction consent law worry, and 'is that thing recording me?' anxiety. LUCI captures only the meetings you opt into — the same way every other meeting tool already works.
Limitless was acquired by Meta in December 2025. New Pendant sales have stopped, and the non-Pendant desktop product is being sunset. Existing Pendant customers were grandfathered into the Unlimited Plan for at least one year, but service has been discontinued in the EU, UK, Brazil, China, Israel, South Korea, and Turkey. The product as it existed in 2024 is no longer being sold or actively developed in its original form.
No. LUCI is a Mac & Windows desktop app. It captures meetings on your computer (Zoom, Meet, Teams, in-room audio via mic). No wearable, no extra device to charge or wear.
Limitless built a searchable archive of conversations — you scrolled back to retrieve them. LUCI builds persistent memory across meetings that answers questions: surfacing action items, pulling exact quotes, prepping you for the next call. And it exposes that memory to your AI agents over MCP, so the tools you already use can reach it too.
LUCI runs as a desktop app on your own machine. Your meetings, transcripts, and memory live in local storage you control. There is no cloud-only lifelog locked behind a vendor that could be acquired and sunset.
Not directly. LUCI focuses on meetings captured through your Mac going forward. If you have transcripts exported from Limitless, they can be imported as searchable memory; raw Pendant audio is not currently supported.
Free on Mac and Windows. Fully local.