About
Rewind AI is a privacy-first productivity tool for macOS that works as a personal AI memory layer for your computer. It continuously records your screen activity, audio, and meetings in the background, compressing and storing all data locally on your device — nothing is sent to the cloud without your permission. Using on-device AI, Rewind transcribes and indexes everything you've seen or heard, making it fully searchable through a natural-language interface. Whether you need to recall a detail from a Zoom call, find a document you briefly viewed weeks ago, or recover context from a browser tab you closed, Rewind lets you search your entire digital history in plain English. It integrates with popular apps like Zoom, Google Meet, Slack, and browsers out of the box, and its timeline interface provides a visual rewind of your day. Rewind is designed for knowledge workers, executives, developers, and researchers who deal with high information volume and need to quickly resurface past context. Its local-first architecture ensures sensitive company or personal data never leaves your machine unless you explicitly share it. The tool also supports meeting summarization, letting you generate AI summaries of recorded calls without relying on external bots joining the meeting.
Key Features
- Continuous Screen Recording: Automatically captures everything on your screen in the background with minimal performance impact, building a complete history of your digital activity.
- On-Device AI Search: All captured data is processed and stored locally on your Mac, letting you search your entire history in natural language without sending data to the cloud.
- Automatic Meeting Transcription: Transcribes audio from meetings on Zoom, Google Meet, and other platforms without requiring a bot to join the call.
- AI Meeting Summaries: Generates concise AI-powered summaries of past meetings and conversations so you can quickly catch up on key decisions and action items.
- Visual Timeline: Provides an interactive timeline interface so you can visually scroll back through your day and instantly jump to any moment in your digital history.
Use Cases
- Recalling the exact details of a meeting you attended weeks ago without reviewing a full recording.
- Finding a website, document, or piece of information you briefly saw but forgot to bookmark or save.
- Generating automatic summaries of back-to-back meetings so you can stay on top of action items.
- Researching and reconstructing the context of a past project by searching everything you read or wrote about it.
- Onboarding to a new role by quickly searching through all past communications and resources encountered during your first weeks.
Pros
- Privacy-First Local Storage: All recordings and transcriptions are stored locally on your device by default, making it safe to use with sensitive business or personal data.
- Effortless Passive Capture: No manual setup needed per session — Rewind runs silently in the background and captures everything automatically.
- Broad App Compatibility: Works across browsers, meeting tools, email clients, and virtually any macOS application without requiring integrations.
Cons
- macOS Only: Currently limited to macOS, leaving Windows and Linux users without access to the tool.
- High Storage Consumption: Continuous screen recording can consume significant local disk space, especially for power users with long daily sessions.
- Limited Free Tier: The free plan has restrictions on the amount of history stored, requiring an upgrade for extended memory access.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is my data sent to the cloud?
No. By default, all recordings and AI processing happen entirely on your Mac. Your data is stored locally and is never uploaded to Rewind's servers unless you explicitly opt in to cloud features.
Does Rewind AI require a bot to join my meetings?
No. Rewind transcribes your meetings by capturing audio directly from your Mac's system audio and microphone, so no bot or third-party app needs to join your calls.
Which Mac hardware is required?
Rewind AI is optimized for Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and later) to enable fast, efficient on-device AI processing, though it also supports Intel Macs with some limitations.
How much storage does Rewind use?
Rewind uses advanced compression to minimize storage — it typically stores many hours of screen recording in just a few gigabytes. You can also set storage limits and configure retention periods.
Can I exclude apps or time periods from being recorded?
Yes. Rewind lets you pause recording at any time, exclude specific applications (such as password managers or private browsers), and delete any portion of your history.
