Rewind

Rewind Review

Rewind is a personal knowledge recorder that captures on-device activity—screens, meetings, and audio—then makes it searchable with privacy controls. It transcribes calls with speaker labels, indexes content by app and time, and lets users ask natural-language questions to retrieve snippets with context. Controls include local-only storage, exclusions for sensitive apps, and one-click redaction; keyboard shortcuts mark moments during meetings. Typical workflows include recalling decisions, finding a chart seen last week, or summarizing a call. The value is perfect memory for work that stays private and reduces time lost to hunting through tabs and notes.

Things to Know About Rewind

Rewind drawbacks: Always-on capture can raise serious privacy, consent, and data retention concerns for workplaces and shared devices. Indexing accuracy varies with accents and low-quality audio. Sensitive information may be ingested unless strict exclusions are configured. Performance and storage overhead can be noticeable on laptops. Enterprise governance, legal hold, and DLP controls are limited without additional tooling.

Top Features

• Personal “second brain” that records and retrieves on-device activity
• Instant search across apps, files, and web history
• AI summaries of meetings, pages, and documents
• Time-based rewind to see what was on screen
• Keyboard commands and semantic queries
• Redaction rules and privacy zones
• Local-first storage with encryption options
• Shared snippets and exports for teams
• Integrations with calendar, email, and notes
• Insights on habits, tasks, and follow-ups

Rewind Pricing

Rewind pricing: per-user subscriptions with a trial, scaling by recording storage, searchable history length, and advanced features like apps/plugins; business and enterprise tiers add admin controls, data retention policies, SSO, and priority support; overall spend grows with seat count and how much continuous capture and indexing you enable, with annual billing typically lowering the effective rate.

How to use Rewind

To use Rewind, install the app, enable screen and audio recording per your privacy preferences, and let it index on-device so content is searchable; use natural-language queries to retrieve meetings, pages, or snippets, redact sensitive items, and pause or exclude apps when needed.

Alternatives & Competitors

To use Rewind, install the desktop app, grant screen/audio permissions, and select which apps and microphones to capture; set retention and privacy exclusions, then let it index your activity; search by keywords or objects, jump back to moments with timelines, and redact or delete sensitive snippets as needed.

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