Plaud AI Pro notetaker adds screen and doubles audio range

Plaud AI Pro arrives with a screen, stronger mics, and smarter summaries

Plaud.ai unveiled the Plaud AI Pro on Wednesday, a refreshed version of its credit-card sized notetaker priced at $179. The new unit keeps the slim form factor that clips to the back of a phone but adds a 0.95-inch AMOLED screen for status indicators and battery level.

Key hardware upgrades focus on audio capture and autonomy. The Note Pro now uses four MEMS microphones (up from two), extending effective capture to about 16.4 feet (nearly 5 meters) and delivering improved noise suppression and speaker detection. Battery life ranges from a standard 30-hour recording capacity to a 50-hour long-recording mode with a reduced 9.8-foot range.

• 0.95-inch AMOLED screen for indicators and battery
• Four MEMS microphones for roughly 2× range versus prior model
• 30–50 hours recording capacity depending on range

On the software side, Plaud updated its companion app to add text note capture, image attachments (slides, whiteboards), and "multidimensional summaries" that produce different output formats—key insights, action items, or data extracts. The app suggests templates based on user roles and lets users create custom templates. A notes-query feature is in beta, enabling natural-language search against captured meetings.

Plaud is launching preorders today at $179 / £169 with shipping scheduled for October 2025. Early buyers receive 600 complimentary transcription minutes and a magnetic case. Every user gets 300 free transcription minutes per month; more is available via subscription or one-time top-ups.

The Plaud Note Pro follows a string of surviving — and in Plaud’s case, thriving — AI hardware efforts. The company says it has shipped over a million units and that nearly half of users upgrade to a paid Pro plan. That continued traction stands out as some peers have been acquired or struggled with shipping.

What this means for organizations: the Note Pro makes always-on, high-quality meeting capture cheaper and more portable, but it raises questions around transcription costs, data governance, and privacy. Teams deploying these devices should map transcription flows, define retention policies, and validate speaker-attribution accuracy before scaling.

• Audit where recordings are stored and who can access transcripts
• Run accuracy checks for multi-speaker meetings and noisy environments
• Estimate monthly transcription costs vs. productivity gains before wide rollout

For product and IT leaders, the Note Pro is a small, low-friction way to add consistent meeting records and structured summaries to workflows. For legal and compliance teams, it’s a prompt to update consent and retention rules. And for knowledge teams, the app’s template and query features point to a future where meeting outputs are immediately actionable.

Plaud.ai’s Note Pro is an incremental but meaningful refinement — a classic hardware-software lift that makes a familiar product more usable and more enterprise-ready. Expect competitors to chase better microphones, smarter on-device detection, and app-driven summarization in the months ahead.

If your team is evaluating AI notetakers, consider a short pilot to compare capture quality, template outputs, and recurring transcription spend. A targeted pilot will reveal whether the device streamlines post-meeting work or simply shifts hidden costs.