Meta Acquired Limitless: What Happens to Your Pendant and Recordings
On December 5, 2025, Meta acquired Limitless, the company behind the $99 always-on AI pendant — and, in a previous life, the Rewind app that recorded everything on your Mac. Terms weren’t disclosed. The team joined Reality Labs’ wearables division, and founder Dan Siroker’s farewell note said the quiet part: “When we started Limitless five years ago, the world was very different… Today is different. We’re not alone.”
For the people who bought the hardware, the practical questions matter more than the strategy. Here’s exactly what changes, when, and what to do about it.
What changed immediately
Pendant sales stopped. You can’t buy a Limitless pendant anymore — sales to new customers ended the day the deal was announced.
Existing owners stopped paying. Every pendant owner was moved to the Unlimited plan for free. No more subscription fees.
Rewind was shut down. The original Rewind desktop app — continuous screen and audio capture on Mac — had its recording features disabled on December 19, 2025, along with the recording features in Limitless’s own web and desktop apps. If you’re looking for a replacement, we compared the surviving options in our Rewind alternatives guide.
Several regions lost service entirely. Users in the EU, UK, Brazil, Israel, South Korea, Turkey, and China had service discontinued, with a December 19, 2025 deadline to export their data.
The support cliff: around December 2026
Limitless committed to supporting existing pendant users for “at least a year” from the acquisition. That’s a floor, not a promise of more — which puts the earliest possible shutdown around December 2026, with no stated plan beyond it.
If the Clockwise-Salesforce story is any guide (acquihire, then a fast product shutdown), the safe assumption is that the pendant is in wind-down, not maintenance. Meta is reportedly developing its own AI pendant — the acquisition was about the team and the technology, not the product you own.
How to export your recordings
Limitless shipped in-app tools for exactly this:
- Open the Limitless app and go to your account/data settings.
- Use Export data to download your recordings, transcripts, and notes.
- Optionally use Delete data afterward if you don’t want your archive sitting on servers that now belong to Meta.
Do this now rather than near the deadline. Export tooling has a way of getting flaky in the final weeks of a wind-down, and there is no commitment that it survives past the support window.
What to switch to
Depends on which half of Limitless you actually used:
The wearable (in-person capture): Plaud’s NotePin is the most mature independent recorder; Omi is open-source hardware that no acquirer can switch off; Bee is the $50 budget option — though Bee is now owned by Amazon, so it carries the same absorption risk that just bit Limitless owners. Full comparison in our Limitless alternatives guide.
Meeting memory (software): Granola and Fathom cover call transcription and summaries without hardware — see how they stack up in our Granola and Otter comparisons.
Acting on what was said: recording was only ever half the job. Carly connects to your meeting notetaker (Fathom, Fireflies, Gong, Recall.ai, tl;dv — or anything with an API via your own key) plus your email, calendar, and CRM across 200+ integrations, and turns commitments into completed follow-ups: drafts sent, meetings booked, records updated. Starts at $35/month.
The pattern worth noticing
Limitless is the third memory-adjacent product absorbed by a giant in twelve months: Amazon bought Bee, Meta bought Limitless, and Salesforce acquihired Clockwise’s team before shutting the product down. Big platforms are buying this category, not competing in it — which means the safest bets for anything you depend on daily are either open source (Omi, Screenpipe) or tools whose business model is the product itself rather than an acquisition story.
More: Limitless AI alternatives · Rewind AI alternatives · Meta’s Manus acquisition and the AI agent land grab · Clockwise shut down: what happened
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