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A Limitless Pendant alternative
If you came here because the Pendant is no longer straightforwardly buyable, this page is the short version of what happened and what the honest alternatives are. chit is one of them, and it is not the same shape of product — that difference is the whole point of the comparison.
What actually changed
Limitless was acquired by Meta in December 2025. Following the acquisition the company wound down new Pendant sales and set an end date for support of existing devices. If you are searching for an alternative, you are almost certainly in one of two situations: you wanted one and can no longer buy it, or you own one and need to know what to move to.
This page does not have inside information about Meta's plans and does not speculate about them. Check limitless.ai for the current status before making a decision — that is the only source that is authoritative, and it is more current than any comparison page including this one.
The real difference is not features, it is when it listens
The Pendant was a worn device. You clipped it on in the morning and it ran; the product's premise was that you should not have to decide what was worth capturing, because deciding is the part people fail at. That premise is genuinely good, and it is why people liked it.
chit is the other answer to the same problem. It is a card the size of the ones in your wallet, and it records only while you physically hold the button down. Nothing is ambient. There is no wake word and no always-on microphone, and there is never a question in a room about whether it is running, because holding it is visible.
That trade is real in both directions. A worn device catches the sentence you did not know was important. A held device catches only what you decided to capture — which means you will miss things, and it also means you can carry it into a client meeting, a deposition or a board room without a conversation about what else it heard today.
What you get back
Capture is the smaller half. With the $9 a month membership, everything you record becomes a transcript, and at the end of the day you get a digest: what happened, what was decided, and the handful of things that actually need you next. Ask-anything search runs across everything you have captured, so a question like when did this client first mention the budget returns the moment with a timestamp rather than a feeling.
The device is $129 for chit one and $179 for chit one Pro, one time. It records offline and syncs when it next has a connection, and the battery runs about a month of typical use. Current lead time is about three weeks from order, with free shipping in the contiguous US and free 30-day returns.
Who should not switch to this
If what you valued about the Pendant was precisely that you never had to decide — that it ran all day and you sorted it out later — a held device is a step backwards for you, and you should look at the other continuously-worn options rather than at this. Being honest about that is more useful than pretending one product covers both behaviours.
If what you actually used it for was meetings, site visits, client conversations and the drive home — deliberate moments you would have been happy to press a button for — then the held form is not a compromise, and it removes the ambient-recording conversation entirely.
Good questions
Is chit a direct replacement for the Limitless Pendant?
Not a direct one. The Pendant was worn and ran continuously; chit is a card that records only while you hold the button. If continuous capture was the point for you, this is a different product rather than a replacement.
Does chit run all day like a wearable?
No. There is no wake word and no always-on microphone — it captures only while the button is physically held. The battery lasts about a month of typical use precisely because it is not running all day.
What does chit cost compared with a subscription wearable?
chit one is $129 once, chit one Pro is $179, and the membership that runs the transcripts, the daily digest and search is $9 a month. The card keeps recording if you cancel; you just do the reading yourself.
Can I use it in meetings where a wearable would be awkward?
That is the case it is built for. Holding a card is visible and deliberate, so everyone in the room can see when it starts and when it stops — which is a materially easier conversation than a device that has been running since breakfast.
Reviewed 2026-08-07.
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