Rewind was the app that remembered everything you saw on your Mac. On 5 December 2025 Meta announced it had acquired Limitless, the company Rewind had become, and on 19 December the Mac app stopped capturing screen and audio. If you relied on it, you now have a folder of old recordings and no memory of anything since.
Update, 26 October 2026: Sharpy has since become an AI to-do list for Mac. It still reads the text on your screen the same way and keeps it on your Mac, but what it does with it is write and close your list of tasks; answering questions about your past is a smaller part of it. The comparison below is updated to what Sharpy does today.
Four apps have moved into that space. They differ more than their landing pages suggest, so start with what each one records.
What Rewind did, and what broke
Rewind recorded your screen as compressed video and your microphone as audio, kept it on the Mac, and let you scroll back or ask questions about it. The capture is what died. Outside the EU and UK you can still open the app and read old data after accepting Meta’s terms; in the EU and UK the export window closed on 19 December 2025.
So the question is not “what looks like Rewind”. It is “what do I want recorded, and where does it live”.
The four Mac replacements
| Sharpy | Screenpipe | Goldfish | HeyClicky | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it records | Text of the front window, via macOS Accessibility, several times a minute. No video, no keystrokes. | Screen frames with OCR, plus microphone and system audio, transcribed. | Not stated on its site beyond “a little memory that lives on your Mac”. | Nothing in the background. A screenshot when you press the hotkey; screenshots are not stored, short text summaries are. |
| Where it lives | On your Mac; relevant text goes to cloud models to write the list and answers. | Local SQLite, local REST API, local by default. | Not stated on the homepage. | Account data; delete the account, delete the data. |
| What you do with it | A to-do list written from what you saw, each task linked to its source; ask about your day with a citation to the moment; rewrite any text field in your tone with a tap of the right Option. | Search, “pipes” for meeting notes and CRM updates, an MCP server for AI models. | Press Option in any text field to reply in your tone with context. | Ask out loud, get on-screen guidance, or let an agent run the task. |
| Platforms | macOS 14+, Apple silicon. Windows on the waitlist. | macOS, Windows, Linux. Source-available. | macOS and Windows. | macOS 14.2+. Windows “coming”. |
| Price | Free in early access. | Free tier; Basic $21 a month or $250 a year for the full history and MCP; Business $42 a seat (pricing page, 18 September 2026). | Not shown on the homepage. | Free 25 talk + 25 agent messages a month; Pro $20, Max $100. |
The table reflects each site on 14 September 2026; the Screenpipe column was rechecked on 18 September, and the full comparison is in Screenpipe alternative for Mac. Read the privacy page of the one you pick; these products change monthly.
How to choose
You want the closest thing to Rewind’s “scroll back through my day”. Screenpipe. It keeps frames and audio, so you get pictures and transcripts, at the cost of disk (its README says 5 to 10 GB a month) and the fact that a picture of your screen exists somewhere on the Mac.
You want the words without the recording, and a list out of them. Sharpy. It keeps the text, not the pixels, and turns what you were asked and promised into tasks, each linked to the moment it came from. Ask “what did we agree with Alex on Tuesday” and the answer cites that moment. Card numbers, keys, phone numbers and codes are masked before anything is stored; passwords, banking, logins and private windows are never saved.
You mostly want to reply faster. Goldfish and Sharpy both live on the Option key. Goldfish sells one move: press Option, get a reply that sounds like you. Sharpy does the same tap and adds the history behind it, so the reply knows what the thread decided last week.
You want an agent that looks at your screen only when asked. HeyClicky. It never watches in the background, which is the point for some people and the limitation for others: there is nothing to search later.
What Sharpy does that Rewind did not
Rewind answered questions about your past. Sharpy turns it into what you have to do next.
- A promise in Slack (“I’ll send it tomorrow”) or an ask in an email becomes a task with a due date and a link to the message. A sent reply or a merged pull request crosses it off.
- Each morning Sharpy proposes the order of your day; a task that has not moved for a week asks to be dropped or moved.
- Claude Code, Codex and Cursor read the same list and memory over MCP, so your coding agent knows what is next and what you did yesterday. See Claude Code memory: what it keeps, and what it can’t see.
The limits, stated plainly: Sharpy needs an account, all model calls go through the Sharpy gateway, and providers may keep prompts for up to 30 days for abuse monitoring. Your history stays on the Mac; the text needed for the list or a question does travel to a model.
Moving your Rewind data
Sharpy does not import a Rewind export today. Keep the export anyway; the text in it is worth having. Sharpy does import browser history, files, an Apple Notes export and your calendar, so the new memory does not start from zero.
Sharpy is free in early access on Macs with Apple silicon. Join the waitlist: access goes out by email in waves over a couple of days, or at once when three friends join with your link.
