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Rewind is a search engine for your life, allowing you to find anything you've seen, said, or heard. It stores all recordings locally on your Mac for privacy and utilizes native macOS APIs and Optical Character Recognition to analyze everything on your screen. Rewind can also automatically record your meetings for easy searchability. It doesn't tax your CPU while recording, and has the ability to exclude specific apps and private browsing. It is made for M1 & M2 Apple Silicon SOCs and utilizes virtually every part of the system on a chip.
F.A.Q (20)
Rewind is unique from other search engines as it is specialized to work as a personal search engine for your life. It can record and analyze anything you see, say or hear on your Mac, which is then made searchable for your ease. It uses native macOS APIs and Optical Character Recognition to do this.
Rewind ensures privacy by storing all recordings locally on your Mac. The data never leaves your device, hence providing full control over your data. You also have the ability to pause, delete recordings at any time and instruct Rewind not to record certain apps and private browsing.
All your recordings on Rewind are stored locally on your Mac. This design choice ensures superior privacy as the recording data never leaves your device.
Rewind uses the recordings to provide you with a personal and searchable record of your activities. It uses them to allow you to find anything you've seen, said, or heard. However, it's important to note that the information gathered from these recordings is stored locally and never sent off your Mac for processing or storage.
Yes, Rewind can automatically record your meetings. This feature lets you easily search through your meetings for specific details.
Rewind stores all its recordings locally on your Mac and not in the cloud. This is a conscious decision to respect and reinforce user privacy.
Rewind operates on the macOS platform and is specifically engineered to leverage M1 & M2 Apple Silicon SOCs.
Rewind is specifically made for M1 & M2 Apple Silicon SOCs to utilize virtually every part of the system on a chip. This allows the program to operate with high efficiency and deliver a powerful, smooth user experience.
Rewind does not tax your CPU while recording. It has been designed to operate efficiently, resulting in minimal impact on your CPU performance.
Yes, you can instruct Rewind not to record from specific apps. This feature allows you to easily maintain privacy on certain applications or parts of your device.
Yes, Rewind does exclude recording from Chrome Incognito & Safari Private windows, reinforcing your control over what is being recorded.
No, Rewind does not require any cloud service integration. It relies purely on native macOS APIs and Optical Character Recognition for capturing and analyzing data from your apps.
Rewind utilizes native macOS APIs to capture and analyze information from your screen. However, specific APIs are not listed on their website.
Rewind's Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is used to analyze everything on your screen. This helps in capturing text from your apps or meetings, making them easily searchable later.
Yes, Rewind has a compression feature for the recorded data. Considering the huge amounts of data that may be generated, this feature is crucial.
Rewind handles data compression by compressing the raw recording data up to 3,750 times. This ensures even with a small hard drive, you can store years of recordings on your Mac.
Yes, you have full control to pause or delete your recordings on Rewind at any given moment.
You can manage your Rewind subscription by visiting the link provided on their website (https://billing.stripe.com/p/login/bIY8xa7qngE4caQfYY).
Access to Rewind can be obtained by visiting and making a purchase from the link provided on their website (https://buy.stripe.com/9AQ03kaHVbFHeB2bIM).
You can receive updates about the availability and capacity of Rewind by submitting your email and joining the early access list on their website. They will send download instructions as soon as they have capacity to support you.
Pros and Cons
Pros
- Locates past data
- Analyzes screen content
- Automatically records meetings
- Low CPU usage
- Can exclude specific apps
- Private browsing supported
- Designed for Apple Silicon
- Utilizes macOS APIs
- Uses OCR technology
- Local data storage
- Private access to recordings
- High data compression
- No cloud integration needed
- No IT required
- Easy pause or delete
- Native app capturing
- Optimized for M1 & M2
Cons
- Only for Mac users
- Requires local storage
- No cloud integration
- No integration with other services
- Specific to M1 & M2 SOCs
- Limited meeting recording capabilities
- Requires manual exclusion of apps
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