Plaud
Wearable and phone-mounted recorders that turn conversations into notes
Overview
Plaud sells AI note-taking devices, the Plaud Note, NotePin, NotePin S, Note Pro and Plaud One earphones, paired with Plaud Intelligence, which transcribes in 112 languages, summarises with templates and searches past recordings. Every device includes 300 free transcription minutes a month; Pro, Unlimited and Team plans add more.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 14 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- 300 transcription minutes a month
- 112 transcription languages
- 10,000+ summary templates
- 1,200 transcription minutes a month
- Multidimensional summaries (beta) and custom templates
- Zapier and Google Calendar integration
- Plaud MCP server (beta)
- Unlimited transcription, up to 24 hours a day
- Full Plaud Intelligence feature set
- Everything in Unlimited
- Shared team files and centralised billing
- User, seat and device management
- Workspace-level data residency and priority support
Use cases
What you can produce with Plaud
- In-person conversations recorded on a phone-mounted, wearable or earphone device
- Transcripts in 112 languages with speaker identification
- Structured summaries from 10,000+ templates or custom ones
- Natural-language search across past recordings with Ask Plaud
- Summaries and transcripts exported in 27+ formats or pushed to Zapier
- A shared team workspace with central billing and device management
Plaud is the hardware answer to note-taking for conversations that do not happen on a call: a clip-on or phone-mounted recorder feeding transcription in 112 languages, template summaries and natural-language search across recordings. The device and the software are both well developed, and the company reports more than two million devices sold.
Budget for device plus plan: $159 to $189 of hardware, 300 free minutes a month, and Pro at $8.33 a month only if billed annually. For calls alone a software note-taker is cheaper, and consent to record remains your job.
What we found
Plaud makes AI note-taking hardware. The card-sized Plaud Note clips to the back of a phone, the NotePin and NotePin S are worn on clothing, the Note Pro adds automatic switching between calls and in-person meetings, and Plaud One, a pair of earphones whose case records conversations, is on limited pre-order. Recordings flow into Plaud Intelligence, the company's app and web service, which transcribes in 112 languages with speaker labels, summarises with more than 10,000 templates and lets you query past recordings with Ask Plaud.
Plaud Inc. is registered in Delaware and headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Shenzhen, Singapore, Tokyo and elsewhere. Forbes reported in September 2025 that chief executive Nathan Xu and co-founder Charles Liu bootstrapped it with their own savings and a crowdfunding campaign, launched the first device in 2023, and that the company was profitable by its own account. In June 2026 Plaud told TechCrunch it had sold more than two million devices and passed US$100 million in annualised subscription revenue. Both figures come from the company. Earlier versions of this page named the founder incorrectly and gave a 2021 launch.
The price is device plus plan. Hardware runs from $159 for the Note or NotePin to $189 for the Note Pro, with Plaud One at $249.99. Every device includes the Starter plan, 300 transcription minutes a month. Pro gives 1,200 minutes for $8.33 a month billed annually or $17.99 monthly, and Unlimited costs $20 or $29.99. A Team plan with shared files and central billing is $20 per user a month annually under a launch offer ending 30 November 2026, then $25. Monthly billing roughly doubles the Pro price.
The case for it is conversations away from a screen: site visits, clinics, interviews. For video calls, software note-takers cost less and need nothing charged. Recording people still needs their consent, which the device cannot obtain for you.
Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.
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