After Rewind
First, the important part: Spake is not always-on recording. It records only between the moment you start a note and the moment you stop it. If what you miss is scrolling back through your whole day, Spake won't give you that, and an always-on recorder such as Screenpipe or TimeScroll is closer to what Rewind did.1,2
What happened to Rewind
Meta acquired Limitless, the company behind Rewind, on 5 December 2025. The Rewind Mac app's last update “disables all screen and audio capture starting December 19, 2025”. Earlier recordings stay readable through 2026, according to Limitless.3
Who Spake is for, among former Rewind users
People who used Rewind for deliberate notes: “remember this”, “what was that error”, “what did I decide on that call”. Spake does that one job on purpose:3
- You start it. Double-tap right Option, talk about what's on screen, double-tap again.
- It keeps the screen and your words together. A note is a folder: the transcript in
note.md, the audio, an MP4 of the screen, and stills with the text recognized on them. - Search covers both. Find a note by what you said or by text that was only on screen.
- It stays on your Mac. Transcription is local (Parakeet and Whisper, 100 languages). No account. The files open without Spake, so nothing depends on a company staying around.
What Spake doesn't do that Rewind did
- It doesn't record in the background.
- It doesn't keep a timeline of everything you saw.
- It doesn't answer questions across your day. It keeps notes and finds them.
The plain-files point, after a shutdown
The notes are Markdown, JSON, WAV and MP4 in a folder you choose (the format). If Spake stopped being sold tomorrow, a licensed Mac keeps working, and every note still opens in Finder.
Try it
$29 once, up to 3 Macs. 14-day trial with everything on. 30-day refunds. Apple silicon, macOS 15 or later.
What a note is on disk: the note format. What Spake sends over the network, and when: privacy.
Sources
Facts about other products, and the day each was read.
Screenpipe. Records the screen, audio and app history continuously; source-available.
TimeScroll. An open-source Rewind replacement (Show HN, 9 November 2026).
Rewind. Meta acquired Limitless, the company behind Rewind, on 5 December 2025. Rewind's last Mac update “disables all screen and audio capture starting December 19, 2025”; earlier recordings stay readable through 2026.