What is a good alternative to Rewind on a Mac?

It depends on what you used it for. Enzo’s Recall keeps a searchable timeline of the apps, titles and text from your screen, on your Mac, and Chat answers questions from it. If you need to replay pictures of the screen, look at apps that keep frames, such as Screenpipe or Earlyn.

Does Enzo record my screen like Rewind did?

It reads the screen and keeps the text, not the picture. Recall keeps the apps, window and document titles, web page titles and addresses, readable text and timing. Frames used to read text are discarded, so there is no screenshot archive.

Does Recall stay on my Mac?

Yes. Recall is encrypted on your Mac, deleted after 30 days unless you choose another period, and never synced or backed up to Enzo’s servers. When you ask Chat a question, only the context that question needs is sent to answer it.

Can I import my Rewind data into Enzo?

No. Enzo starts its own timeline from the day you turn Recall on.

The Recall timeline and its search are free, with no time limit. On Free, Chat’s answers about your work reach today and your last working day. Plus is $10 a month and reaches all the history Recall has kept.

Switching

A Rewind Alternative for Mac

Name: Enzo
Author: Enzo

Rewind stopped recording in December 2025. What it did, what replaces it, and how Enzo remembers your work without keeping pictures of your screen.

Rewind was the Mac app that remembered everything: it recorded what was on your screen and what you said and heard, kept it on your Mac, and let you search it or scroll back to any moment. If it was part of how you worked, you already know it's gone. This page is about what to use now.

What happened to Rewind

The company behind Rewind had renamed itself Limitless and moved on to a wearable. On December 5, 2025 it announced that Meta had bought it, and that the Rewind app would stop all screen and audio recording on December 19, 2025. No new version is coming.

What you're replacing

People used Rewind for three things, and it helps to know which one you miss:

Finding something you saw. A number in a spreadsheet, a line in a document, a page you closed.
Asking about your own work. “What did I decide about the pricing page last week?”
Getting meetings written down without setting anything up.

How Enzo does it

Enzo is an AI assistant for the Mac, and the part of it that remembers is called Recall. Turn it on and Enzo keeps a timeline of your work: the apps you used, window and document titles, web page titles and addresses, the readable text on screen, and when. It is encrypted on your Mac and deleted after 30 days unless you choose another period.

The main difference from Rewind is that Recall keeps text, not pictures. Enzo reads the screen, keeps the words and discards the frame, so there is no archive of screenshots on your disk. It also means you search and read what you saw; you can't play the screen back as video.

Finding something you saw

The Recall page shows your day as a timeline, and search in Enzo's window finds what was on your screen. The whole timeline and its search are free.

Asking about your work

Chat answers from Recall, your meetings and the apps you connect, such as Mail, Calendar, Notes and Messages, and links the moments it used so you can check them. On Free, its answers reach today and your last working day. On Plus they reach everything Recall has kept.

Meetings

Rewind listened all day. Enzo records when you ask it to: press a key to dictate or record, or let it start when a call begins in Zoom, Teams, FaceTime or Slack. The transcript is made on your Mac and says who spoke, by name. How meetings work.

What Recall leaves out

An app that reads your screen should be clear about what it won't keep.

Recall is off until you turn it on. You can pause it, keep apps and sites out, and delete what it kept.
Passwords, API keys, card numbers and similar values are hidden before text is kept. Enzo finds them by their shape, so a value with no recognizable shape can still get through.
In messaging apps such as Messages, WhatsApp and Signal, Recall keeps only the time you spent, never what was in them.
In Chrome, Brave, Arc and Edge it keeps only the time of a private window.
It keeps how active you were, never what you typed or where you clicked.

Recall never leaves your Mac by itself. When you ask Chat a question, Enzo sends the question and the context that question needs through its service to an AI provider, which keeps it only briefly to check for abuse. The full boundary is in the privacy policy.

What Enzo doesn't do that Rewind did

No picture of the screen is kept, so there's no scrubbing back through a recording.
It doesn't record audio all day, only dictations and meetings.
It can't import a Rewind library.
It needs a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 15 or later.

If replaying pictures of your screen is the part you can't do without, look at apps that keep frames as well as text. As of November 2026, Screenpipe and Earlyn both do, on the Mac. They take more disk space and hold more than Enzo's text does, which is the trade.

Starting with Enzo

Download Enzo and sign in with a free account. Setup downloads about 1.1 GB of models, which stay on your Mac.
Turn on Recall when setup offers it, or later in Settings. macOS asks for your permission before Enzo can read the screen.
Work as usual. After a day, open Recall to see the timeline, or ask Chat what you worked on.

Free has no time limit. Plus is $10 a month and gives Chat all of your history. See pricing, or read about Enzo as an AI assistant for your Mac.