# Rewind: Truly Personalized AI — Find anything you've seen

> Personalized AI for searching and summarizing phone content. (iPhone/iPad app by Limitless AI Inc..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rewind-truly-personalized-ai/id6449795815 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Limitless AI Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/1639037310)
- Category: Productivity, Lifestyle
- Price: Free
- Rating: 3.74/5 from 72 App Store ratings · 75 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 246 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2023-07-26
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rewind-truly-personalized-ai/id6449795815/reviews.md

## What is Rewind?

Rewind brings you new levels of productivity — browse, search, and ask Rewind about anything you’ve seen on your phone. Rewind is a truly personalized AI in your pocket.

Rewind works by capturing what you read in Safari and importing your screenshots. This lets you leverage the power of AI to ask Rewind any question about anything you’ve seen, including summarizing it for you. 

With a simple tap, Rewind lets you instantly sift through your past, making it easier than ever to locate a particular screenshot, dig out that informative tweet from a few days ago, or revisit an important web page.

Benefit from AI-driven summaries that distill complex research you've engaged with, allowing you to grasp crucial info quickly and effortlessly. 

Key Features:

• Instant search: Everything you’ve read in Safari and all your screenshots are processed using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and made instantly searchable.

• Copy and paste superpowers: Quickly return to anything you’ve seen to copy and paste from your past.

• Summarizations: Condense all the research you’ve done into digestible summaries with AI.

• Visual browsing: Scroll through everything you’ve read in Safari in a visually appealing, user-friendly layout.

• Audio transcription: Record and transcribe in-person conversations then summarize, search, or Ask Rewind AI about them.

• Private by design: Only you have access to your recordings. All recordings are processed and stored locally on your phone. Private browsing in Safari is not captured.

Rewind is a truly personalized AI in your pocket.

## Key features

- Instant search of Safari history and screenshots
- AI-powered summarization of content
- Copy and paste from past content
- Visual browsing of Safari history
- Audio transcription and summarization
- Private local data processing

## What do users think of Rewind?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 💡 Innovative AI-powered memory recall concept
- 🔍 Useful for searching screenshots and Safari history
- ⚡ Fast and smooth performance when working
- 🎯 Helpful for summarizing meetings and daily activities
- 📱 Seamless integration with Mac app
- 🆓 Generous free plan available
- 🧠 Acts as a second memory for productivity

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent crashes within seconds of opening
- ❌ App no longer actively developed/supported
- 🔋 High battery consumption and device heating
- 💾 Excessive storage usage (20GB+ after weeks)
- 🚫 Limited to Safari only, doesn't work across apps
- 🔐 Privacy concerns despite privacy claims
- 😞 Abandoned by developers in favor of Limitless
- ⚠️ Inconsistent data recording and retrieval
- 🎯 Poor UX and navigation design
- 🔄 Unreliable extension integration

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes 10 seconds after opening
- Crashes when recording audio or initiating transcription
- Crashes when searching or asking questions
- Crashes when swiping through photos
- Safari extension repeatedly reports issues
- Screenshots not being imported consistently
- Search functionality returns no results despite visible data
- Transcript inaccuracies with incorrect content
- Timeline showing wrong content for recordings
- Audio recording fails in Portuguese/Brazilian Portuguese
- App force closes on opening
- Query responses return 'no data' despite visible screenshots
- Summarize function fails to parse timeframes
- Paste functionality unreliable

**Most requested features**

- Delete/prune timeline history selectively and entirely
- Support for Chrome and other browsers
- Cross-app recording beyond Safari
- Full screen and audio recording capabilities
- File sharing access for data export
- Import recordings into Limitless app
- Sync between iOS and Mac devices
- Chat history retention
- Widget for quick recording access
- Multi-language support (Portuguese, French, etc.)
- OCR for text recognition in screenshots
- Dedicated Meetings view on iOS
- Pay-as-you-go pricing tier
- Automatic screenshot summaries with AI

## Recent user reviews (10 of 75)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rewind-truly-personalized-ai/id6449795815/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Paid app, not supported

*2025-11-26*

I am a paying rewind customer and they are no longer supporting their product. It has historically been a great app but now it crashes consistently about 10 seconds after opening the app. This makes it nearly impossible to find what you are looking for before it crashes and you have to start over again.  And again. And again. And again. 😭

**Developer response:** Hey there! Sorry you've been experiencing crashes in our app. Feel free to email support@rewind.ai, and we'll do what we can to help you get it working correctly.

### 1/5 — Please update the app

*2025-08-24, version 2024.2*

I will change the one star to a five star if you will only update the app

### 1/5 — Hobbled, and yet somehow a privacy risk

*2025-02-25, version 2024.2*

requires more permissions than it should need to do its job. Simply doesn’t work.

### 1/5 — No easy way to browse/export recordings. Gotta spend hours scrolling through months of history.

*2025-02-06, version 2024.2*

I've been using Rewind on desktop to record meetings and also do my own vocal note-taking for months. I'd been really happy with the desktop app and its dedicated Meetings view for browsing past recordings, so I started using the iOS app to do recordings as well. I didn't immediately do anything with my iOS recordings when I was done recording them because I figured it'd work the same way as the desktop app, and that once I'd found a spare moment I'd just go through it and archive everything.

But—surprise!—there isn't a dedicated Meetings view, or any other tools to filter only your recordings/transcripts. If you don't save them immediately, they'll quickly get buried as you accumulate more history, and there is no easy way to resurface them without manually scrolling through your entire history and paying close attention so that you don't accidentally scroll past it.

Just to emphasize the extent of how inaccessible this is:
—There are no views that show only your recordings.
—There are no filters you can use to hide all other types of history and only show recordings. 
—You can't search for recordings with the in-app search browser. It's just an AI that answers questions about websites you've visited.
—You can't import recordings into their new app Limitless.
—You can't access the recordings through the Files app.
—You can't use third party tools to access the recordings, because they've disabled File Sharing.

Over the last few days I've been having to set aside some time each day to scroll for hours through literal months of history — which is a lot per day, because of course I'm gonna be using my phone for tons of things each day — to find and manually export each individual recording. And because there's so much to scroll through, I kinda have to scroll fast to get through it in a reasonably timely manner. But the faster you scroll, the more likely you'll accidentally scroll past a recording. They're not even very visually distinct — their bright blue color is identical to that of Safari's (aka the literal most used app on iOS), and the button label changes from Open Safari to Summarize. It happens so quick — less than a second most of the time — that you'll likely barely notice it before you're long past it.

I'm sure there's several recordings I've missed, and there's literally no way to tell for sure... except to repeat the process all over again.

I'm gonna be real, it's such an obvious thing to include that I legitimately could not comprehend such a baffling omission of such a basic UX feature. It legitimately defies logic.

Customer service didn't have any answers for me. No judgment of them, they were just doing their job, prolly have zero control over developer priorities, and they were curt but polite. But they couldn't help me. They confirmed that I wasn't missing anything and there was no way to do what I needed the app to do. 

On top of that, they told me that Rewind was no longer being actively developed, and encouraged me to transition to Limitless. Perhaps I would... if it could import my data from Rewind… and if I had some degree of trust that I wouldn't risk running into another situation like this where I feel completely abandoned by them, with little hope for help.

But if by some small chance a dev is paying attention... I'm begging you, please enable File Sharing so I can extract the files myself. afaik it only involves flipping a key and defining a variable, so I'm hoping it wouldn't take too much of your time, and it would make it easier for me to migrate to Limitless. 

If y'all decide it's not possible or not worth your time... then I'm not sure I can trust that the company won't leave me stranded in a future situation where I have to spend hours diving into a haystack to hunt down and hopefully catch a few needles of data.

### 2/5 — It’s not working in PT/BR

*2025-02-01*

The app always crashes when I start recording audio and initiating transcription, but this issue does not occur in Portuguese. It starts in English. I found the Mac app to be much better and expected the same level of quality and functionality.

### 2/5 — Why is this app crashing after ten seconds

*2025-01-30, version 2024.2*

Like, please say why

### 1/5 — Not supported anymore

*2025-01-08*

This app is not supported anymore, hasn’t been updated in a year and crashes everytime

### 1/5 — Doesn’t work at all for me. No support.

*2024-12-23*

UPDATE: December 2024

About every 3 months I reinstall this hoping that the bugs will have been fixed. Yet again, it’s useless. It claims that there are no screenshots when I can easily verify that there are, both in the photos app and in Rewind itself 

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I love the idea of Rewind AI and very much want it to work. 

There have been moments where worked but it consistently degrades and stops working. 

I give up. 

There are much more reliable ways to do what Rewind promises to do. 

Very sad.

**Developer response:** Hey there, I'm sorry you're running into the Ask Rewind bug (and very odd that you're not able to see your previous review). Can you please make sure you're on the latest version from the iOS app store? Please email support@rewind.ai if the screenshots are still not indexing. -Heidi from the Rewind Team

### 2/5 — Sadly, Rewind has been abandoned

*2024-12-21, version 2024.2*

No updates in a year. Unfortunately I have been having issues with reliability lately, where looking at the recorded feed doesn’t show the right images… like the feed for the recording 5 minutes ago shows my browsing the day before.

### 1/5 — Malware

*2024-09-18*

It is a useless app, it does not let you delete pictures and it doesn’t have a proper iPad app. It sends your screenshots to ChatGPT despite claiming no info leaves your device.
Lying developers make malware.

**Developer response:** I'm sorry we let you down! As a note, the Ask Rewind and our meeting summarization are optional features and do require text data to be sent outside your local device. We do not currently support any local LLM's.

For the Rewind iOS app specifically, we do not have any option to delete select / old entries. The only option right now would be to delete the whole Rewind iOS app.

## Frequently asked questions about Rewind

### What does Rewind AI do?

Rewind AI acts as a personalized AI assistant for your phone. It captures what you read in Safari and your screenshots, making all this content searchable and allowing you to ask questions about it or get AI-powered summaries.

### How does Rewind AI make content searchable?

The app uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to process everything you've read in Safari and all your screenshots. This allows for instant searching of text within images and web pages you've previously viewed.

### Is Rewind AI free to use?

Based on the provided information, Rewind AI is a free application. There are no mentions of in-app purchases or subscription models.

### What kind of content can I search with Rewind AI?

You can search through anything you've read in Safari, including web pages and articles. Additionally, all your screenshots are processed and made searchable, allowing you to find visual information as well.

### How does Rewind AI ensure privacy?

The app is designed with privacy in mind. All recordings and captured data are processed and stored locally on your phone, ensuring only you have access to your personal information. Private browsing sessions in Safari are not captured.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2024.2 — 2024-01-18

• Bug fixes and performance improvements

### 2024.1 — 2024-01-02

• Bug fixes and performance improvements

### 2023.10 — 2023-09-29

• Replace ChatGPT: The new Ask Rewind is like having a ChatGPT that knows about everything on the internet AND everything you’ve shown it! Now you can ask general AI questions about anything you want to know (just like ChatGPT), as well as questions about anything you've seen, said, or heard.

### 2023.9 — 2023-09-13

• Audio transcription! You can now record and transcribe in-person conversations then summarize, search, or Ask Rewind about them.
• Easily share URLs, images, or audio clips from anything you've captured with Rewind.
• Fixed text selection for newer iOS versions.

### 2023.8 — 2023-08-17

• Added "Chat with Support" in settings
• Improved Ask Rewind indexing for questions related to specific websites
• Improved capture background processing
• Fixed an issue with flickering on app launch

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