Plaud Note
A card-thin recorder that turns meetings and calls into AI summaries.
Visit Plaud Note $159 device; Pro plan from $99/yr for more transcription minutes
What is Plaud Note?
Plaud Note is a credit-card-sized voice recorder that captures meetings and phone calls (via a magnetic phone mount), then transcribes and summarises them in the Plaud app using frontier models, with templates for meetings, lectures, and interviews.
Key features
- One-press recording of meetings and phone calls
- Transcription in 100+ languages with speaker labels
- AI summaries with templates and mind maps
- Magnetic mount records calls through the phone speaker
- Cloud sync across devices
Pros
- Hardware button beats fumbling for an app in a meeting
- Summaries are genuinely useful and well structured
- Long battery life and tiny footprint
Cons
- Free transcription minutes are limited; the subscription is the real cost
- Recording others has consent and legal implications
- Another device to charge and carry
Best for
People in back-to-back in-person meetingsJournalists and researchers doing interviewsAnyone who wants recordings without a laptop open
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