Always the last N seconds
Keep the last 30 seconds to 5 minutes. Old footage is dropped continuously — nothing fills up.
Always-on screen DVR for Mac & Windows
Rewindly keeps a rolling buffer of your screen and audio. When something vanishes — a crash, a closed tab, a great take you didn’t hit record on — just rewind the last few minutes and save the clip.
14-day free trialmacOS 13+Windows 10/11
REC rewindly · buffering 00:00:00
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Rewindly_clip.mov
HEVC · system + mic · saved to ~/Movies
The idea
Recording the thing you forgot to record.
Three steps, and the first one never stops.
- 01
It’s always rolling
Rewindly continuously captures your display and audio into a short in-memory buffer. Nothing is written to disk yet.
- 02
Something happens
An app crashes, a call drops a brilliant point, a notification flashes a code. The moment you wish you’d hit record.
- 03
Rewind & keep it
Click Save last 60s. The buffer is written to a tidy HEVC clip with mixed audio — already in your Movies folder.
What’s inside
Small app. Serious plumbing.
Native capture, hardware encoding, and a buffer that respects your machine.
Encoded on the GPU
Frames are H.265-encoded by VideoToolbox as they arrive, so capturing at native resolution barely touches your CPU.
System sound + your mic
Both sources are captured and mixed into one track. Toggle either on or off, per your workflow.
Your call on memory
Keep the buffer in RAM for speed, or back it with disk to free memory for long buffers. Switch any time.
Survives a crash
In disk mode the buffer is recoverable. If your computer or an app goes down, relaunch and save what you lost.
Nothing leaves your machine
No cloud, no account, no telemetry. The buffer stays on your machine and clips are written to local disk.
Nothing leaves your machine.
No cloud. No account. No telemetry. The buffer lives in RAM; clips are written to local disk. Rewindly is a tool, not a tracker.
Pricing
Pick how far back you rewind.
Start free. Paid licenses are one-time — no subscription — and include a 14-day trial.
$0forever
Up to 15 seconds
- 15-second rewind
- System audio capture
- RAM or disk storage
- Local & private — no account
$29one-time
Up to 5 minutes
- Rewinds: 15s · 30s · 1m · 2m · 5m
- Microphone + system audio, mixed
- Crash-proof disk recovery
- Use on up to 3 machines
$49one-time
Up to 1 hour
- Same as Standard, plus 15m · 30m · 1h
- Built for disk-backed long buffers
- Use on up to 3 machines
All tiers: macOS 13+ (Apple Silicon & Intel, system audio on 14.2+) · Windows 10 1903+ / Windows 11 coming soon
Is there a free trial?
Yes. Every download includes a 14-day free trial with all features unlocked — no card required. After that, a one-time $29 license keeps it going on up to 3 machines.
How is this different from QuickTime or a normal recorder?
You do not press record. Rewindly is always recording into a short rolling buffer, so you can capture something that already happened — after it happened. It is a DVR for your desktop, not a camcorder.
Does it eat my disk or battery?
No. Only the last N seconds exist at any time, in memory, and video is hardware-encoded. When you save, one compact HEVC .mov is written. Idle capture is light on Apple Silicon.
Where do clips go?
Straight to ~/Movies/Rewindly (configurable) as an HEVC .mov with mixed audio. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.
What about privacy?
Everything stays on your machine. No account, no servers, no analytics. On Mac, macOS still shows its purple screen-recording indicator while the app runs — that is the system being honest about capture.
Which platforms are supported?
On Mac: macOS 13 Ventura and later for screen + microphone; system-audio capture uses the Core Audio process tap and needs macOS 14.2 or newer. A Windows build (Windows 10 1903+ / Windows 11) is in active development and coming soon.