Limitless AI Review 2026: The Wearable Memory Assistant That Meta Just Bought

Updated October 2026

Limitless is finished as a product you can buy. Meta acquired the company, announced in December 2025, and the Pendant no longer ships to new customers. What remains is a service for people who already own the device, with a support window that ends this year.

The homepage now leads with the acquisition message from co-founder and CEO Dan Siroker. He frames the deal as a fit with Meta's push for "personal superintelligence" and AI wearables. The rest of this piece covers what that means for current owners and where to look if you wanted a Pendant.

How it works in practice

The Pendant is a clip-on wearable that records conversations. Recordings turn into stored transcripts, and you can go back to previously recorded meetings from your account. That's the whole loop: capture, transcribe, store, retrieve.

One piece of the old workflow is gone. Limitless used to offer Rewind, a desktop app that recorded your screen and microphone, plus desktop and web recording. The company said it would sunset everything that isn't the Pendant, and that sunset has now happened. Today the Pendant is the only way to get audio into the system.

Two account controls matter more now than they did before the deal. You can export all of your account data, and you can delete all of it from inside the app. Siroker's announcement says the export feature launched alongside the acquisition news.

What stands out

The subscription is gone. Existing customers get the Unlimited Plan for free, and the announcement says you no longer need to pay a subscription at all. That's an unusually good outcome for a hardware customer after an acquisition. Plenty of buyers of acquired gadgets get a shutdown notice instead.

Export and deletion are built in. Many wearable recorders make it hard to leave. Limitless puts both options in the app. If you own a Pendant, run the export before anything else changes. A recorder that holds months of your conversations deserves an exit plan, and this one gives you the tools.

It captures in-person conversation. Software-only tools mostly cover virtual calls and uploaded files. A wearable covers the hallway chat and the coffee meeting too. That was the product's whole argument, and it's the reason people still look for Pendant-style devices now that this one is off the market.

Where it falls short

The biggest problem is simple: you can't buy it. The Pendant is no longer sold to new customers, and the company hasn't published any successor.

Support is the next problem. The original announcement promised support for at least another year, and the current listing says support runs only through 2026. That leaves about two months from this update. Nothing public says what happens to the service after that. If the cloud service goes quiet, a Pendant that depends on it goes with it. Treat the device as something that might stop working, and keep your exports current.

Regions shrank too. Limitless is not available in the EU, UK, Brazil, China, Israel, South Korea or Turkey. If you live in one of those places, don't count on the free plan applying to you.

Privacy deserves a hard look. Continuing customers must agree to an updated Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. Limitless built its name on a local-first, user-controlled approach in the Rewind era, and Rewind is now gone. I'd read the new terms line by line before you let a microphone keep running on your shirt. Recording other people also carries consent obligations that vary by jurisdiction, and a device that never stops listening makes those obligations your problem every day. If you work in a field with confidentiality duties, such as therapy, see our guide to AI documentation tools for solo therapists before recording clients with any wearable.

Value for money

The Pendant sold for $99 one-time, and that price is moot because nobody can buy one. For existing owners the arithmetic is easy. The subscription costs nothing, so the only costs are the device you already paid for and the risk that support ends. The current plans don't publish a price for any tier.

If you're shopping, a secondhand Pendant is a bad bet. You'd be paying for hardware with a service that's promised only through the end of this year, under a Privacy Policy you haven't seen yet. Spend that money on something with a roadmap.

Who should pick it and who should skip it

Keep using it if you already own a Pendant, live in a supported region, and are comfortable with the updated terms. It's free, your data is exportable, and nothing about it gets worse while you use it. Export on a schedule so a service shutdown doesn't cost you your archive.

Skip it if you don't own one. You can't buy it, and the support promise is too short to justify chasing a used unit. If you want ambient capture, look at current wearables such as Plaud NotePin or Omi. Bee was acquired by Amazon, so apply the same caution about where it's heading. If virtual meetings are most of your workload, you don't need hardware at all. Otter.ai covers calls and uploads, and our roundup of open-source Otter alternatives you can run yourself suits anyone who wants recordings off a third party's servers. If you also edit what you record, Descript alternatives by job breaks the options down by meetings, podcasts and video.

Setup notes

If you own a Pendant, do three things in this order. Export all of your data first. Read the updated Privacy Policy and Terms before you accept them, since the app requires agreement to keep going. Then decide what you'll record and who has agreed to be recorded. Deleting everything is also an option inside the app if you'd rather walk away cleanly.

The broader point is that wearable AI memory is a real category, and the acquisition shows large companies want it. But Limitless itself is now a wind-down story, not a buying decision.