70
BU Score
Strong
Plaud: AI Note Taker
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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Plaud: AI Note Taker is an iOS app from PLAUD LLC in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.9★ across 18,534 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews — supporters praise core features while critics cite stability/value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 70 — Strong (healthy traction). For a Productivity app, that means healthy traction.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 13 of 13 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (18,534 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($0.00)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (10 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Growing app (2y old)METRIC | +$200 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 217 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 14.0+🔖 v3.17.0🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 EN, FR, DE, IT, JA +5📂 Productivity💰 Free🚀 Launched 2023 (2y old)
📝 About this app
[Product Introduction]
Plaud is building the world's most trusted AI work companion for professionals to elevate productivity and performance through note-taking solutions, trusted by over 1,500,000 users worldwide. With a mission to amplify human intelligence, Plaud is building the next-generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize what you say, hear, see, and think.
Plaud offers a range of AI note-taking devices and solution, each designed to fit different work and life scenarios.
- Plaud Note: The world’s No.1 AI note taker
- Plaud Note Pro: The world’s most advanced AI note taker
- Plaud NotePin / Plaud NotePin S: The world’s most wearable AI note taker
- Plaud Desktop: Capture online meetings natively from the Plaud Desktop App, without a meeting bot.
Whether it’s an in-person meeting, a phone call, an on-the-go conversation, or an online meeting, Plaud keeps you fully present while it handles the notes.
[Plaud Intelligence]
From capturing ideas on Plaud devices to retrieving and applying insights across Plaud App, web, and desktop — Plaud Intelligence is the AI engine behind every experience in the Plaud ecosystem.
- Capture with multimodal input
- Capture or import audio
- Press or tap to highlight
- Input text to add context
- Enrich context with images
- Extract AI transcripts & contextual summaries
- AI transcription in 112 languages with speaker labels and custom vocabulary
- Generate multiple summaries from one conversation automatically, empowered by 10,000+ expert templates
- Developed on the best LLMs: GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro, and more
- Utilize intelligence across your workflow
- Ask Plaud: Get reference-based answers, generate insights, and save as notes
- AutoFlow: Automate transcription, summaries, and delivery with set rules
- Cross-platform sync with unlimited cloud storage.
- Export, share, and integrate into your workflow
- Plaud App and Plaud Web: Manage all your notes, summaries, and insights in one place.
[Privacy & Compliance]
Plaud is built with enterprise-grade security and global compliance standards, so your data stays safe, private, and under your control.
- ISO 27001 Compliant: Global standard for information security, keeping your data confidential, intact, and available.
- ISO 27701 Compliant: Global privacy standard, ensures personal data is managed responsibly and transparently.
- GDPR Compliant: Aligns with Europe's strictest privacy regulations
- SOC 2 Compliant: Independently audited systems for security and confidentiality
- HIPAA Compliant: Protects medical and personal health data
- EN 18031 Compliant: Meets European standards for secure wireless communication
[AI Plans]
Starter Plan: Included with any Plaud AI note taker purchase. Enjoy 300 minutes of transcription every month. Comes with access to all Plaud Intelligence features—multimodal input, multidimensional summaries, Ask Plaud, and more.
Pro Plan & Unlimited Plan: Designed for high-demanding or professional use. Pro offers 1,200 minutes per month, while Unlimited removes all time limits.
PLAUD Terms of Service & END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT : https://app.plaud.ai/user-agreement
Terms of Use : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Plaud is building the world's most trusted AI work companion for professionals to elevate productivity and performance through note-taking solutions, trusted by over 1,500,000 users worldwide. With a mission to amplify human intelligence, Plaud is building the next-generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize what you say, hear, see, and think.
Plaud offers a range of AI note-taking devices and solution, each designed to fit different work and life scenarios.
- Plaud Note: The world’s No.1 AI note taker
- Plaud Note Pro: The world’s most advanced AI note taker
- Plaud NotePin / Plaud NotePin S: The world’s most wearable AI note taker
- Plaud Desktop: Capture online meetings natively from the Plaud Desktop App, without a meeting bot.
Whether it’s an in-person meeting, a phone call, an on-the-go conversation, or an online meeting, Plaud keeps you fully present while it handles the notes.
[Plaud Intelligence]
From capturing ideas on Plaud devices to retrieving and applying insights across Plaud App, web, and desktop — Plaud Intelligence is the AI engine behind every experience in the Plaud ecosystem.
- Capture with multimodal input
- Capture or import audio
- Press or tap to highlight
- Input text to add context
- Enrich context with images
- Extract AI transcripts & contextual summaries
- AI transcription in 112 languages with speaker labels and custom vocabulary
- Generate multiple summaries from one conversation automatically, empowered by 10,000+ expert templates
- Developed on the best LLMs: GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro, and more
- Utilize intelligence across your workflow
- Ask Plaud: Get reference-based answers, generate insights, and save as notes
- AutoFlow: Automate transcription, summaries, and delivery with set rules
- Cross-platform sync with unlimited cloud storage.
- Export, share, and integrate into your workflow
- Plaud App and Plaud Web: Manage all your notes, summaries, and insights in one place.
[Privacy & Compliance]
Plaud is built with enterprise-grade security and global compliance standards, so your data stays safe, private, and under your control.
- ISO 27001 Compliant: Global standard for information security, keeping your data confidential, intact, and available.
- ISO 27701 Compliant: Global privacy standard, ensures personal data is managed responsibly and transparently.
- GDPR Compliant: Aligns with Europe's strictest privacy regulations
- SOC 2 Compliant: Independently audited systems for security and confidentiality
- HIPAA Compliant: Protects medical and personal health data
- EN 18031 Compliant: Meets European standards for secure wireless communication
[AI Plans]
Starter Plan: Included with any Plaud AI note taker purchase. Enjoy 300 minutes of transcription every month. Comes with access to all Plaud Intelligence features—multimodal input, multidimensional summaries, Ask Plaud, and more.
Pro Plan & Unlimited Plan: Designed for high-demanding or professional use. Pro offers 1,200 minutes per month, while Unlimited removes all time limits.
PLAUD Terms of Service & END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT : https://app.plaud.ai/user-agreement
Terms of Use : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
🆕 What's New · v3.17.0
What's New
- Plaud Note Pro can now be located via the Apple Find My app for easy device tracking. (Firmware V1.5)
- Ask Plaud now supports Skills. Choose from 15+ built-in skills or create up to 10 custom skills.
- Two-step verification is now available for email logins. Enable it to require a verification code after password entry.
- Low-battery notification are now available, helping avoid missed recordings when the device runs low on power.
- UI improvements and bug fixes.
- Plaud Note Pro can now be located via the Apple Find My app for easy device tracking. (Firmware V1.5)
- Ask Plaud now supports Skills. Choose from 15+ built-in skills or create up to 10 custom skills.
- Two-step verification is now available for email logins. Enable it to require a verification code after password entry.
- Low-battery notification are now available, helping avoid missed recordings when the device runs low on power.
- UI improvements and bug fixes.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Plaud: AI Note Taker
- Developer
- PLAUD LLC
- Bundle ID
- ai.plaud.ios.plaud
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, ZH, ES, ZH
Company
- Website
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- Tagline
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- Description
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- Founded
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- HQ / Address
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- Employees
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- Logo
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Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
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- AI revenue estimate / mo
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- AI annual estimate
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- ML model estimate / mo
- $17.3K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇯🇵#4 /100 🇫🇷#6 /100 🇧🇷#7 /100 🇩🇪#8 /100 🇨🇦#10 /100 🇦🇺#15 /100 🇬🇧#16 /100
- All-time revenue
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- Pricing
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Founder
- Name
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- X / Twitter
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- GitHub
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- Last round
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- Crunchbase
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Press & Links
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- Listed on
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- Blog
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Contacts & Socials
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- Phone
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⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 4.2★ · 69.4% 5★ · 12.2% 1★
5★34 (69%)
4★4 (8%)
3★4 (8%)
2★1 (2%)
1★6 (12%)
+2,090 ratings/week
Praise: great ×8 love ×6 best ×6 amazing ×5 excellent ×3Complaints: subscription ×2 expensive ×1 refund ×1 bug ×1 terrible ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Use it in practice
Great for patient examination and treatment notes. Don’t overpay to other programs.…
★★★★★ Plaud has always been good but got better
It is incredibly impressive for note taking and minutes of any type. Many templates for all tasks.…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Not what you’re likely thinking
This app appears to require that a separate (expensive!) hardware device be purchased and then used with your iOS/iPad device. That this is the case is not particularly obvious (no doubt intended). That said, it does look like perhaps audio…
★☆☆☆☆ Simply doesn’t work :(
Bought the pro device and started the trial today. Generation never finished (tried auto and non-auto), takes forever and results with a generic error message without any details what to do next. $20 a month is also a joke as Otter or Notab…
📈Ratings growth18,538 ratings+1033% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (37 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (30 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution●Top 10●Top 30●Top 60
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank9 countries
🇯🇵JP#4 /100
🇫🇷FR#6 /100
🇧🇷BR#7 /100
🇩🇪DE#8 /100
🇨🇦CA#10 /100
🇦🇺AU#15 /100
🇬🇧GB#16 /100
🇮🇳IN#18 /100
🇺🇸US#21 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#4 now · best #4 · worst #26
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
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