Paid app, not supported
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. 😭
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Response from developer
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.
Please update the app
I will change the one star to a five star if you will only update the app
Hobbled, and yet somehow a privacy risk
requires more permissions than it should need to do its job. Simply doesn’t work.
No easy way to browse/export recordings. Gotta spend hours scrolling through months of history.
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.
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.
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It’s not working in PT/BR
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.
Why is this app crashing after ten seconds
Like, please say why
Not supported anymore
This app is not supported anymore, hasn’t been updated in a year and crashes everytime
Doesn’t work at all for me. No support.
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.
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.
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Response from developer
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
Sadly, Rewind has been abandoned
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.
Malware
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.
Lying developers make malware.
Response from developer
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.
Started off great, now a useless app
I was happy paying for the Rewind subscription when it started, but then one problem after another arose. They got an astounding number of subscribers but were clearly confused about their business model. They kept changing from Rewind to a useless transformation called Limitless, which removed all the useful features. Now, there is a promised hardware called Pendant for which you have to pay in advance to queue up, only to find that the costs have doubled because they imposed additional charges that were not indicated in advance. It's a completely nontransparent team that has lost its goals and is now solely focused on milking people through costly subscriptions rather than delivering a good product. This is a typical example of "too fast, too soon" and greed taking over their vision
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Response from developer
Thanks for your honest feedback. We made the transition from Rewind to Limitless wanting to make a more valuable product, but we understand the new product doesn't work for everyone. I do want to clarify that we do have a Limitless Free plan (and the Pendant is an optional hardware device). -Heidi from the Limitless team
Collier Rewind
Bonjour à quand la sortie du collier qui enregistre tout pendant la journée ?
Version updates
Updates aren’t being rolled out for rewind mobile because of limitless, right?
Response from developer
Hi Duke, that is correct. Stay tuned for updates in our Limitless web app (and Limitless iOS app to come later)!
Needs delete functionality (Update)
Cool app with a generous free plan but need the ability to clear timeline history, selectively and entirely.
Edit: 5 star review dropped to 1 star, as the developer has stated in a review response that their new app has taken priority and they will not be updating Rewind in the foreseeable future. This app is in need of a major overhaul to usability, functionality, and UI, so if it will just be sitting as is, then I unfortunately won’t be continuing to use the app.
Edit: 5 star review dropped to 1 star, as the developer has stated in a review response that their new app has taken priority and they will not be updating Rewind in the foreseeable future. This app is in need of a major overhaul to usability, functionality, and UI, so if it will just be sitting as is, then I unfortunately won’t be continuing to use the app.
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Response from developer
Noted your feedback to have delete options, thank you!
Inútil
Não tem utilidade alguma.
Security breach!
I was using this app and recorded a zoom call. When I was viewing the transcript there were things that I never said being relayed back in the transcript. APPLE STORE YOU NEED TO TAKE THIS APP DOWN!
So much potential but a letdown in current iteration
Heidi, please make this app more user friendly to the average person. The timeline should not be where this app opens. I think you really need a UI polish. Please don’t give up on this, it really has a lot of potential.
Response from developer
Thanks for your feedback! We just launched Limitless and unfortunately will not be making updates to the Rewind iOS app at the moment. In the meantime, I have bumped your feedback to my team and agree there is a lot of potential.
Needs delete functionality
Cool app with a generous free plan but need the ability to clear timeline history, selectively and entirely.
Response from developer
Noted your feedback to have delete options, thank you!
Looks useful
Love the concept, can be extremely useful but the safari test keeps saying the extension is having issues. When following the instructions, it says it's enabled and later in the day it's having issues again. I don't understand what's going wrong, I want this beautiful app to work so bad!
Response from developer
We identified a Safari extension bug and have yet to find a resolution with Apple. Thanks for your patience.
Génial
Concept et réalisation parfaitement originales et super utiles
Response from developer
Thanks for all of your support, really appreciate the review! -Heidi from the Rewind Team
