Rewind vs ThinqBits

Rewind — Never miss a moment Some of the best things ever said weren't recorded. The story your grandfather only tells once. The exact phrasing of an idea in a meeting. A toast at a wedding. A diagnosis from a doctor's visit. The moment your kid says something so funny you couldn't have planned it. Rewind is the iPhone app that gives you a second chance. Instead of asking you to hit record before something interesting happens, Rewind quietly keeps a short, rolling memory of what your microphone just heard. When the moment turns out to matter, one press saves the last few minutes — after it already happened. HOW IT WORKS Tap Start Listening once. Rewind maintains a private rolling buffer of the last 1, 3, 5, 10, or 15 minutes of audio. Anything older is overwritten and gone. Nothing is saved unless you ask. When you want to keep what just happened, save it from anywhere — the Home screen, the iPhone Action Button, Siri, Spotlight, or Shortcuts. Rewind stitches the recent buffer into a clip, transcribes it, and drops it in your Library. Listening keeps going so you don't miss what comes next. EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Rewind has no account, no cloud, and no upload path. There is no server to opt out of. Audio files and transcripts live in your app sandbox, protected by iOS encryption. The only network call Rewind ever makes is the one-time download of the on-device transcription model. After that, it works offline. Optional Face ID can lock the entire Library so your moments stay yours alone. ON-DEVICE TRANSCRIPTION Every saved clip is transcribed locally using Whisper. Titles are generated for you. Optional speaker labels separate who said what. Search your Library by transcript text, title, date, or duration — instantly, with nothing leaving the phone. FIVE WAYS TO CAPTURE • Home screen — the big save button, center stage • Action Button — one press, even from the lock screen • Siri — "Hey Siri, save Rewind" • Spotlight — swipe down, type, return • Shortcuts — chain Save Rewind into any automation EVERYTHING YOU NEED • Rolling buffer with 1, 3, 5, 10, or 15-minute save windows • Background capture — keeps running while locked or in your pocket • Resilient through phone calls, Bluetooth swaps, and interruptions • Local Whisper transcription with optional speaker diarization • Search by transcript, title, status, date, or duration • Playback with scrubbing, 15-second skip, trim, and revert • Star clips, edit titles, share via the standard iOS share sheet • Choose built-in or external microphone (Bluetooth, USB, AirPods) • Three home visuals: breathing dot, buffer ring, or live waveform • Light & dark themes that match your system PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account • No cloud • No upload path • No analytics • No ads • Face ID gate for the Library • File-protected storage • Sharing is always explicit REQUIREMENTS iPhone running iOS 18 or later. Microphone permission required. Recommended: assign "Save Rewind" to your Action Button for one-press capture. CATCH THE NEXT GREAT THING SAID. Install Rewind, start listening once, and let your phone remember the last few minutes for you. You decide what's worth keeping — after it's already happened.

Most apps agree with you. This one argues. ThinqBits Council is a private thinking partner for the decisions you keep circling. Not an oracle that tells you what to do — a room that comes at your thinking hard enough that the objection lands while you can still use it. HOW IT WORKS You say what you'd do. Your own answer, in your own words, written down before anyone can talk you out of it. That's what the debate pushes on. Five to seven thinqers argue with it. Each one comes at your question from a different angle. You watch where they clash on a live collision map — who is in tension, who converges, who builds on whom — not in a wall of transcript. You leave with the blind spots your own framing left out, and one short reusable principle worth keeping. Kept principles come back to argue in later councils. Then we check back. Once you know how the decision actually played out, you mark which objections turned out to count. That record is what makes you sharper — not the app. WHAT YOU GET • A live collision map of where your thinqers disagree, built as they argue • The blind spots your framing left out, and the questions still worth answering • A decision journal: every council kept, with what you decided and what happened • Calibration: we return once the outcome is known, and read back which objections mattered • Thinqer packs you can build, reuse, and share for the decisions you keep facing • A fit check that tells you honestly when this isn't the right tool for your question PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION Every deliberation runs on your device using Apple Intelligence. There is no account, no backend, and no analytics. Your questions and your decisions never leave your phone — that isn't a setting you turn on, it's the only way the app is built. REQUIREMENTS Requires an iPhone or iPad that supports Apple Intelligence, with Apple Intelligence turned on in Settings. Without it you can still explore a full sample council to see how the room works. SUBSCRIPTION Your first council is free. After that, ThinqBits is $4.99/month or $34.99/year, and new subscribers start with a 14-day free trial. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled; you can cancel any time in Settings. Reading your saved councils, your journal, and your calibration is never gated. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://thinqbits.com/privacy ThinqBits is a reasoning partner, not a source of facts or professional advice. It reasons offline with no internet access, so verify anything factual. It is never a substitute for medical, legal, or financial counsel, or for a professional's judgment.