# Plaud Note Pro

> Plaud Note Pro is a credit-card-sized AI voice recorder for people who move between phone calls, conference rooms, interviews, lectures, and field work. Its dedicated capture button, four-microphone array, status display, phone-call mode, and Plaud Intelligence software turn recordings into transcripts, summaries, action items, and searchable answers, but the most useful workflows can add a $99.99 or $239.99 annual subscription to the hardware cost.

- **Created by:** Plaud
- **Launched:** 2025
- **Platforms:** hardware, web, ios, android, windows, macos
- **Pricing:** Paid hardware with a freemium service. US list price is $189, including a magnetic case, magnetic ring, charging cable, and Starter plan with 300 transcription minutes per month. Pro is $17.99 monthly or $99.99 annually and includes 1,200 minutes per month. Unlimited is $29.99 monthly or $239.99 annually. Prices and promotions vary by market and date.
- **Key features:** Smart dual-mode recording, Press to Highlight, InstantView display, Long-range audio capture, Two endurance profiles

## Features

- **Smart dual-mode recording** — A sensor automatically switches between in-person microphone capture and vibration-based phone-call capture according to device orientation.
- **Press to Highlight** — Pressing the device during a recording marks an important moment so later AI output can prioritize the user's intent.
- **InstantView display** — A 0.95-inch AMOLED screen shows recording, battery, transfer, and highlight status without opening the app.
- **Long-range audio capture** — Four MEMS microphones and one VPU support beamformed pickup up to 16.4 feet in Enhance mode.
- **Two endurance profiles** — Enhance mode records for up to 30 hours with longer pickup; Endurance mode records for up to 50 hours with a shorter 9.8-foot pickup range.
- **Plaud Intelligence** — Cloud software provides transcription in 112 languages, speaker labels, custom vocabulary, summaries, Ask Plaud, templates, search, sharing, and exports.
- **Multimodal notes** — Users can combine audio with text, images, and manually marked highlights in a single record.
- **Fast transfer and sync** — BLE 5.4 and device-hosted Wi-Fi move recordings into Plaud apps across mobile, web, and desktop.
- **Apple Find My** — Support for Apple's Find My network can help locate a misplaced device.

## Achievements

- Named a winner in the Forbes Vetted 2026 Best Product Awards, Best AI Wearables category.
- Won the iF DESIGN AWARD 2026 for product design.
- Won the Red Dot Design Award: Product Design 2026.
- Part of a Plaud product line reported to have passed 2 million global users in 2026.
- Plaud reported reaching $100 million in annual recurring revenue within two years in June 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Plaud announced that Note Pro won both the Red Dot Design Award: Product Design 2026 and the iF DESIGN AWARD 2026.
- **2026-06** — Plaud reported scaling from $1 million to $100 million in annual recurring revenue and released a PITAKA-designed woven magnetic case for Note Pro.
- **2026-05** — Plaud announced Plaud Embedded, extending its conversational AI stack to third-party products.
- **2026-03** — Forbes Vetted selected Plaud Note Pro as a 2026 Best Product Awards winner in Best AI Wearables.
- **2026-01** — Plaud expanded the ecosystem with a desktop app for online meetings, complementing Note Pro's physical-room and phone-call capture.
- **2025-08** — Plaud announced Note Pro as its flagship recorder, with preorders ahead of shipping in fall 2025.

## Links

- Website: https://www.plaud.ai/products/plaud-note-pro
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/plaudai/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/PLAUDAI
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PlaudAI
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plaud_official/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/plaudai/
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@plaud_official

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Last updated: 2026-08-20