Can I still buy a Limitless pendant?

Not new. Sales were stopped immediately after the Meta acquisition. The only way to get one now is the secondhand market — eBay, marketplace listings — which is a sketchy on-ramp for a category where the data plumbing matters. If you want a new pendant in 2026, Omi ($89, open-source) is the recommendation.

Does my Limitless pendant still work after the Meta acquisition?

Yes. The hardware still pairs over Bluetooth and captures audio. Limitless's cloud sync is committed for at least a year post-acquisition, and existing customers were moved to the Unlimited Plan with no subscription. The long-term software future is unclear, which is why most active users are pairing their pendants with independent software layers (like Fluent) instead of relying on Meta's roadmap.

Why did Limitless get discontinued?

It wasn't discontinued because the product failed — the product worked well and had real traction. It was discontinued because the founding team accepted an acquisition from Meta in December 2025. Meta is focused on AI wearables in the AR/AI glasses form factor (Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta), not on a standalone pendant, so the standalone Limitless hardware was wound down as part of the deal.

What should I do if I own a Limitless pendant?

Three things: (1) Export your data while the export tools still work. (2) Keep wearing the pendant — the hardware is excellent. (3) Pair it with a software layer that isn't tied to Meta's roadmap. Fluent ingests Limitless audio directly and gives you transcripts, person profiles, and meeting summaries independent of the Limitless cloud.

Is the Limitless Pendant Discontinued? Here's What Happened

Q: Is the Limitless pendant discontinued?

Yes — new pendant sales halted in December 2025 when Meta acquired Limitless. The hardware is no longer available for purchase. Existing units still work and pair as before, and Limitless has committed to maintaining backend support for existing customers for at least a year. The Mac and web 'Rewind' product was sunset in stages over the same period.

Yes, the Limitless pendant has been discontinued. New pendant sales halted in December 2025 when Meta acquired Limitless. Existing units still work, and Limitless committed to backend support for current customers for at least a year — but you can no longer buy a new one.

If you own one, the hardware is still useful. If you're shopping for a pendant in 2026, the answer is Omi, not a hunt for a secondhand Limitless.

The short version

Sales halted: December 2025, immediately after the Meta deal closed.
Existing units: Still pair, still capture, still sync — for now.
Backend support: Committed for at least 12 months post-acquisition.
Mac and web app (Rewind): Being sunset in stages.
New customers: There aren't any. Buy something else.

Why Meta bought Limitless and ended sales

Meta is the wrong fit for a standalone pendant. Their AI wearables roadmap is glasses-shaped: Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, Meta Ray-Ban Display. A neck-worn pendant doesn't extend that strategy. What Meta wanted was the team, the model work, and the years of conversation data that came with the pendant program. The hardware was the price of admission, not the product.

This is the same pattern that's been consolidating the AI capture category over the past twelve months. Amazon acquired Bee in July 2025. Rewind got folded into Limitless before Limitless got folded into Meta. Three of the five major pendant brands have changed hands in twelve months. If you're shopping in this category, that pattern matters more than any single product's spec sheet.

If you own a Limitless pendant

The right move is keep the hardware, replace the software around it.

Export your data while the export tools still work. The difference between "sunsetting in 90 days" and "endpoint started returning 500s last week" is the difference between keeping your history and losing it.
Keep wearing the pendant. The hardware is genuinely excellent — better mic, better mount, better battery than most things in the category. Don't toss it.
Pair it with software that isn't Meta-owned. Fluent (iOS) ingests Limitless audio directly and gives you transcripts, daily insights, meeting summaries, and person profiles built from cited evidence — independent of whatever Meta decides to do with the Limitless cloud.

Full playbook: What to Do With the AI Pendant You Bought.

If you were about to buy a Limitless pendant

You can't. The orphaned-Limitless decision is now a different question: what should I buy instead?

The short answer is Omi ($89, open-source). Smaller, cheaper, firmware on GitHub, self-hostable backend. The hardware has rough edges but the acquisition-risk story is fundamentally different — if Based Hardware sells, the firmware is forkable and the product survives.

Full decision tree: Limitless Pendant Alternatives in 2026 and Limitless vs Omi: Which Pendant Fits Your Life.

The category-level read

AI capture is consolidating, and the asset being consolidated is your conversation history. The brands that get popular get bought. The brands that don't get popular die. The only durable position is hardware whose software you can own — which today is Omi self-hosted, or any pendant paired with an independent software layer like Fluent.

If you're shopping the wider category, our complete comparison of AI conversation memory tools in 2026 covers every option worth considering, with a feature matrix and decision tree.