A credit-card-thin AI recorder that pins to your phone, captures every meeting and call, and ships you ChatGPT-written summaries.
PLAUD (PLAUD.AI) is one of the breakout hardware hits of 2024–2026: a thin voice recorder with a vibration-conduction sensor that pins to the back of your phone and records both sides of any call — including WhatsApp, Zoom-via-speaker, and carrier calls — without app integrations orroot access. Pair that with a solid transcription + GPT summary stack in the app and you get the closest thing yet to "every conversation is searchable." Their NOTE and PLAUD NOTE 2 lines have moved over half a million units.
Who it's for: Consultants, journalists, lawyers, sales reps, founders — anyone whose memory of "who said what" is a billable or compliance asset. Also genuinely useful for people with ADHD who lose meeting notes.
Vibration sensor pins to your phone and captures both sides of any call — carrier, WhatsApp, Zoom — without call recording APIs or rooting. Works where software recorders are blocked.
Each recording auto-transcribes (Whisper-class) and produces meeting notes, action items, and a one-paragraph summary via GPT-4o. Templates for sales calls, medical, interviews, etc.
~3mm thick, weighs 30g, charges over USB-C in ~30 min for 30 hours of recording. Genuinely pocketable; doesn't feel like a "device."
Optional cloud sync ($79/yr or $149 lifetime) so transcripts are on every device. Local-only mode for sensitive conversations — recordings never leave the device.
Hardware starts at $159 (PLAUD NOTE) and $239 (NOTE 2, more storage, better mic). Basic transcription is free; the "Pro" GPT features cost $79/yr or a $149 one-time unlock. Compared to Otter.ai's $17/mo ongoing, the math breaks even in ~10 months.