MyHandler.ai vs Rewind AI
Rewind was the original "search everything you've seen" app for Mac. Its parent company Limitless was acquired by Meta in December 2025, and recording has been discontinued. The promised Windows version never shipped.
If you're looking for what Rewind promised — a searchable memory of everything you've seen, stored on your own machine — MyHandler is that, on Windows, still independent, and built local-first so no acquisition can switch your memory off.
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Side by side
| Feature | MyHandler.ai | Rewind AI |
|---|---|---|
| Available and actively developed today | ✓ |
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Capture disabled December 19, 2025 following Meta's acquisition of Limitless
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| Windows app | ✓ |
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Announced with a waitlist in 2023 — never shipped
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| Data stored on your device | ✓ |
✓
Rewind stored recordings locally — to its credit
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| Text-only capture (no screenshots or video) | ✓ |
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Screenshots every few seconds compressed to video — roughly 180 MB per hour of disk
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| Encrypted local vault | ✓ | Not stated |
| Optional on-device AI (works offline) | ✓ |
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"Ask Rewind" sent your context to GPT-4 in the cloud
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| Meeting transcription | On-device (local Whisper) |
✓
Also local Whisper — one thing both got right
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| Email, calendar & chat channels | ✓ | — |
| Local file & document indexing | ✓ | — |
| Pre-meeting briefs & daily briefing | ✓ | — |
| Query your data from your phone | SMS / Telegram / voice | — |
| Independent (not owned by Meta) | ✓ | — |
Key advantages
Rewind announced a Windows version in September 2023 and it never arrived. MyHandler is Windows-native today — Windows 10 and 11, free to download.
When Meta bought Limitless, recording was disabled and users in the EU and UK had two weeks to export before permanent deletion. MyHandler's vault is an encrypted database on your own disk — it doesn't stop working because of an acquisition.
Rewind recorded compressed video of your screen (~180 MB/hour) and ran OCR over it. MyHandler captures the text itself via Windows accessibility APIs — a fraction of the disk, CPU, and battery.
"Ask Rewind" answered questions by sending your context to GPT-4. MyHandler can run AI models on your own hardware, and when you do use cloud AI, calls run under zero-data-retention.
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MyHandler.ai
Free / $15 / $29 / $59 per month
Rewind AI
No longer sold (recording discontinued December 2025)
Your AI handler.
Running where your data lives.
MyHandler remembers your screen, meetings, files, email, and channels — encrypted on your own machine — and briefs you on what actually needs you.
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