Meta acquired Limitless. The API is still live—for now. Here’s how to migrate your data and keep your pendant working.
I know this question intimately. I’ve asked it five times now—when Moves shut down, when Basis recalled their watches, when Narrative dissolved, when Automatic closed, and now with Limitless.
I’m Adam. I wore the Limitless pendant every day. When Meta announced the acquisition, I deleted my Limitless account within a week, migrated to Omi, and kept my pendant capturing conversations—just through different software. I built Silo because I was tired of being a data refugee.
And what you’re losing
Let’s be honest about what Limitless did well:
Always-on conversation capture
The pendant recorded everything, creating a searchable archive of your verbal thoughts
AI summarization
GPT-powered transcription turned hours of conversation into structured insights
Meeting intelligence
Automatically captured context from calls, meetings, and daily conversations
Personal memory layer
Could answer “What did I talk about with Sarah last month?”
These weren’t gimmicks. Limitless created genuine value. But now that value is disappearing—not because the product failed, but because the business model did. Venture-funded hardware startups almost never outlast their runway. (Read the full analysis →)
Memory infrastructure, not a pendant replacement
Silo isn’t a pendant replacement—it’s something broader. Instead of betting everything on one device or one data stream, Silo is memory infrastructure. A permanent home for all the data streams that document your life.
Omi
Ongoing conversation capture from your pendant
What I use daily
Limitless
Historical conversation archive
Archive before shutdown
RescueTime
Productivity patterns & app usage
Wakatime
Coding time & projects
GitHub
Development activity
Manual
Experiences, photos, people, places
Multi-provider by design: When one service dies (and they always do), your other streams persist. No single point of failure.
AI that serves memory, not metrics: Daily summaries synthesize patterns across all your sources—not to optimize you, but to help you understand and remember.
Limitless vs. Omi + Silo
| Feature | Limitless (was) | Omi + Silo (now) |
|---|---|---|
| Conversation capture | Pendant, always-on | Same pendant, paired with Omi app |
| Transcription | Built-in AI | Omi AI transcription, pulled into Silo via API |
| Productivity tracking | No | RescueTime, Wakatime integration |
| Code activity | No | GitHub integration |
| AI daily summaries | Limitless-only | Cross-provider synthesis |
| Data ownership | Locked to Meta | Full export anytime, open formats |
| Business model | VC-funded → acquired | Self-funded, sustainable |
| If service shuts down | Data disappears | Maximum notice + full data export |
Your Limitless Pendant still works. I wear mine every day. It’s paired with the Omi app, which is open-source and privacy-focused. Silo pulls the conversation data from Omi’s API automatically.
Two steps: archive the past, keep capturing the future
Time-sensitive — do this now
The Limitless API is still operational as of February 2026, but Meta will likely shut it down by late 2026.
Permanent — no time pressure
Your Limitless Pendant hardware still works—it just needs different software.
From Limitless
From Omi
Export everything, anytime, in open formats (JSON, CSV, GeoJSON). No hostage situations. No proprietary lock-in. If you want to leave, you leave with everything.
Silo isn’t VC-funded. I’m not building to flip to an acquirer. You pay a monthly subscription, that subscription funds the infrastructure, and the service stays running. No venture capital roulette.
Maximum notice (minimum 90 days). Full data export in open formats. I’ve been the person scrambling to save data from a dying service. I won’t make you be that person.
The data refugee story
In 1910, my great-grandmother began writing letters to a man she had recently met. Over three years, they documented their courtship through correspondence. When my grandfather went to war, he and my grandmother continued the tradition—letters crossing the Atlantic, carrying the texture of their lives through conflict.
My father has written a letter to his mother every week for as long as I can remember. Four generations of my family understood something I inherited before I had words for it:
The act of recording a life gives it meaning beyond itself.
I wanted to continue that tradition in the language of my time. But every service I trusted—Moves, Basis, Narrative, Automatic, Limitless—eventually shut down or got acquired.
So I built Silo. Not to chase growth or raise rounds, but because I needed it to exist for the rest of my life—and beyond. I’ve used it every day for nine years.
Yes. Your pendant hardware works with the Omi app. I’ve been using this exact setup since December 2025. Download Omi, pair your pendant, and you’re back in business.
Yes—Silo has a full Omi API integration, built and production-ready. I use it daily with my own Limitless Pendant paired to the Omi app. Conversations, memories, timestamps, geolocation—it all flows into Silo automatically.
Not yet—we currently only support live API migration for Limitless history. We’re building a ZIP importer, but it’s not ready. Use the API method while it’s still live.
Whatever you’ve imported to Silo is permanently yours. Export it anytime in JSON format. Going forward, your new conversations flow through Omi—no dependency on Limitless at all.
It’s a self-funded company, not a venture-backed startup chasing exits. I built it because I need it to exist. Nine years and counting—no investors, no acquisition pressure, just sustainable software funded by a monthly subscription.
I can’t make absolute promises—none of us can. But Silo has been running for nine years, I use it every day, I’m not beholden to investors, and if the worst happens, I’ve committed to giving you maximum notice and ensuring your data is fully exportable in open formats. I’ve been a data refugee too many times to create another shutdown.
The Limitless API is still live. The window is closing. Your data is worth preserving.