6 Best Limitless AI Alternatives in 2026 (After the Meta Acquisition)
Limitless made the most polished always-on memory wearable — a $99 pendant that recorded your conversations, transcribed them, and let you ask your own life anything. Then Meta acquired the company on December 5, 2025, stopped selling the pendant immediately, and folded the team into Reality Labs. Existing owners were moved to the Unlimited plan for free, but support is only promised for “at least a year” — a cliff that lands around December 2026 — and users in the EU, UK, Brazil, and several other regions already lost service. The Rewind desktop app was shut down on December 19, 2025. If you own a pendant, you’re on borrowed time; if you were about to buy one, you can’t. Here’s where to go instead.
1. Carly
Carly is an AI executive assistant that answers a different version of the memory question: instead of recording everything you say, it connects to where your commitments actually live — email, calendar, Fathom, Fireflies, Slack, CRM — and acts on them across 200+ integrations.
What makes it different from Limitless: Limitless remembered your conversations; Carly does something about them. Pipe your meeting transcripts in from any notetaker (native integrations for Fathom, Fireflies, Gong, Recall.ai, and tl;dv — or any tool with an API via your own key) and Carly drafts the follow-ups, schedules the next meeting, and updates the CRM. No hardware to be discontinued, and no acquisition-risk single point of failure for your memory: your data stays in the tools you already use.
Best for: People who wanted Limitless so they’d stop dropping follow-ups — the action problem, not the recording problem.
Pricing: Starts at $35/month; non-AI workflow steps aren’t metered
2. Plaud NotePin
The most mature wearable recorder still standing: a pin/pendant from the company that’s been shipping AI recorders since 2023, with polished hardware and apps.
What makes it different from Limitless: Plaud is an independent hardware company whose whole business is recorders — not a startup waiting to be absorbed. The NotePin S runs $179 with AI plans at $99.99/year (Pro) or $239.99/year (Unlimited). Transcription, summaries, and templates are strong; the always-listening ambient experience is closer to “press to capture” than Limitless’s passive memory.
Best for: Pendant owners who want the closest like-for-like hardware replacement from a stable vendor.
Pricing: NotePin S $179; AI plans from $99.99/year
3. Bee
A $50 wrist-worn AI recorder with no subscription — the budget entry in the category. Amazon acquired Bee in 2025.
What makes it different from Limitless: The price. But go in with eyes open: Bee now lives inside Amazon exactly the way Limitless lives inside Meta, so the same absorption risk applies — big platforms are buying this category, not building it in public. If that’s what burned you with Limitless, Bee is a lateral move.
Best for: Trying always-on capture cheaply, with acquisition risk priced in.
Pricing: $50, no subscription
4. Omi
An open-source AI pendant — open hardware and software — with a plugin community covering translation, coaching, and custom personas.
What makes it different from Limitless: Omi is the anti-acquisition option: because the hardware designs and software are open source, no acquirer can turn it off. The trade-off is a rougher consumer experience — it’s a platform for tinkerers more than a finished product.
Best for: Developers and privacy-minded users who never want a shutdown email again.
Pricing: From ~$89 (consumer device $179)
5. Granola
The AI notepad for back-to-back meetings: it captures audio from your computer (no meeting bot) and turns your rough notes into polished, structured ones.
What makes it different from Limitless: If what you actually used Limitless for was meetings — not ambient life capture — Granola covers that slice with software alone. No hardware, no wearable, works on the calls you’re already taking.
Best for: People whose “memory problem” is really a meeting-notes problem.
Pricing: Free trial; paid from $18/month
6. Fathom
Free AI meeting notetaker that records, transcribes, and summarizes your video calls, with CRM handoff on paid tiers.
What makes it different from Limitless: Fathom is the strongest free answer for meeting memory — generous free tier, highly rated, and it feeds summaries wherever you work. Like Granola, it’s meetings-only: no in-person or ambient capture.
Best for: Replacing Limitless’s meeting coverage at zero cost.
Pricing: Free; premium from $15/month
Limitless AI Alternatives Compared
| Tool | Form factor | Covers | Ownership risk | Starting price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carly | Software (email/text) | Acting on meetings + commitments | Independent | Starts at $35/mo |
| Plaud NotePin | Wearable pin | In-person + meetings | Independent hardware co. | $179 + plan |
| Bee | Wrist wearable | Ambient capture | Owned by Amazon | $50 |
| Omi | Open-source pendant | Ambient capture | Open source — can’t be killed | ~$89 |
| Granola | Mac/iOS software | Meetings | Independent | From $18/mo |
| Fathom | Software | Video meetings | Independent | Free |
| Limitless | Pendant | Ambient + meetings | Meta — support ending | No longer sold |
FAQ
Can I still buy the Limitless pendant? No. Meta stopped sales to new customers when the acquisition was announced on December 5, 2025. Existing owners keep working devices, on a free Unlimited plan, with support promised for “at least a year.”
How long will my Limitless pendant keep working? Officially, support continues for at least a year from the December 2025 acquisition — roughly through December 2026 — with no commitment beyond that. Users in the EU, UK, Brazil, Israel, South Korea, Turkey, and China already lost service. Export your data now rather than at the deadline; the in-app tools let you download or delete everything. Full details in our breakdown of the Meta acquisition.
What’s the closest hardware replacement for the pendant? Plaud’s NotePin is the most mature independent option; Omi is the open-source route that can’t be shut down by an acquirer; Bee is the cheap one, though it’s now Amazon-owned.
What replaces the “ask my memory anything” software side? For meetings, Granola or Fathom. For turning what was said into completed follow-ups, Carly connects your notetaker and the rest of your stack — the part Limitless never did.
More: Meta’s Limitless acquisition, explained · Rewind AI alternatives · Granola alternatives · Otter AI alternatives · Best AI personal assistants
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