Plaud: AI Work Companion: iPhone vs Android
Plaud: AI Work Companion gets 5k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Plaud: AI Work Companion by PLAUD LLC is on both the App Store and Google Play. Here are both versions together: downloads, users, revenue, ratings and chart positions, store by store with totals.
Plaud: AI Work Companion at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-10-20. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Plaud is an AI-powered note-taking ecosystem combining hardware devices and software to automatically transcribe, summarize, and organize audio from meetings and conversations for productivity-focused professionals. The app demonstrates strong global monetization traction, ranking in the top 10 Productivity Grossing charts across diverse markets including Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Similar apps: Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai, Notion
App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Plaud: AI Work Companion’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 3 linked to your identity and 3 collected anonymously.
Google Play
App details
Tech stack
Trackers and permissions of build v3.21.0, from the εxodus privacy report (CC BY-SA).
Plaud: AI Work Companion downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone | 5k+ | 1M+ |
| Google Play | 1k+ | 500k+ Measured |
| Total | 5k+ Confidence | 5M+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
Where Plaud: AI Work Companion's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend before Apple and Google take their fee.
| Store | Per day | Per month | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | |||
| Google Play | |||
| Total | Confidence | 100% |
Business model: Subscription-led
How Plaud: AI Work Companion makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Unlimited Plan(Monthly) subscription | |
| 2 | Pro Plan(Annually) subscription | |
| 3 | Unlimited Plan(Annually) subscription | |
| 4 | Pro Plan(Monthly) subscription | |
| 5 | Annual Unlimited subscription | |
| 6 | Unlimited Plan(Monthly) subscription | |
| 7 | Unlimited Plan(Annually) subscription | |
| 8 | 600 Minutes Package | |
| 9 | Pro Plan(Annually) subscription | |
| 10 | Pro Plan(Monthly) subscription |
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.9 ★ | 24k |
| Google Play | 4.8 ★ | 11k 1.1k written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.8 ★ weighted by ratings | 35k |
What users say about Plaud: AI Work Companion
From the 85 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users praise the device's ability to record, transcribe, and summarize meetings effectively for productivity. However, significant dissatisfaction exists regarding aggressive subscription costs, removal of features like speaker labeling, and poor customer support.
Mixed but leaning positive (66% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being useful. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and crashes and bugs. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “Great tool to take notes with”
- Useful: “I would highly recommend it”
- Price & subscription: “They charge $20 per month”
- Ease of use: “It’s simple, reliable, and genuinely useful”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “Paid a lot… for another pay wall”
- Crashes & bugs: “Great, but pause doesn’t work”
- Features & content: “Not recommended; removing features”
- Connection & sync: “But when you can’t connect it’s all moot”
About Plaud: AI Work Companion
Capture meetings, calls and conversations, then turn them into the work you need next. Plaud Intelligence helps you transcribe, summarize, find past context and get work done from every conversation.
At the center is Plaud Agent. Give it a task in plain language and it sees it through: drawing on the right context from your Knowledge base, producing finished work in the format you need, and delivering it where it needs to go.
CAPTURE IN-PERSON MEETINGS, PHONE CALLS, AND ONLINE MEETINGS
Use a Plaud device for in-person meetings, phone calls and conversations on the go. Use Plaud Desktop for online meetings, with no meeting bot required.
Capture more than audio. Highlight key moments as they happen, add notes and include images to give Plaud richer context.
Everything stays together across Plaud Mobile, Plaud Web and Plaud Desktop.
TURN RECORDINGS INTO TRANSCRIPTS AND CLEAR NOTES
Get transcripts and AI summaries after every recording, with support for over 112 languages, and custom vocabulary.
GET WORK DONE WITH PLAUD AGENT
Tell Plaud Agent what you need in plain language. It finds the right context from your conversations and knowledge, then turns it into the work you need.
Use Plaud Agent to:
- Turn customer calls into a research brief
- Draft follow-ups and emails from meetings
- Create project updates, reports, and presentations
- Bring back relevant context from weeks or months ago
- Reuse your preferred workflows with Skills
- Automate recurring work with Routines
- Work across Slack, Notion, Google Calendar, Linear and more
Create ready-to-use documents, presentations, reports and more, with links back to the relevant moments in the original recording for verification. Plaud asks for your confirmation before anything is sent or posted on your behalf.
USE PLAUD EVERYWHERE
Your recordings, transcripts and knowledge stay in sync across Plaud Mobile, Plaud Web and Plaud Desktop, with unlimited cloud storage.
CHOOSE THE PLAN THAT FITS HOW YOU WORK
Every Plaud device includes the Starter Plan, so you can start recording, transcribing and using Plaud Intelligence right away.
Starter Plan
Includes 300 transcription minutes each month.
Pro Plan
Includes 1,200 transcription minutes each month for professionals who record and transcribe more regularly.
Unlimited Plan
Unlimited transcription for professionals who capture conversations throughout their day.
Team Plan
Built for teams, with centralized management, file sharing and shared knowledge capabilities.
GLOBAL SECURITY STANDARDS
Plaud is compliant with GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27701 and EN 18031.
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: AI Work Companion iPhone
Plaud: AI Work Companion gets 5k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Plaud: AI Work Companion is #5 in Productivity Grossing in Japan and charting in 28 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 25 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Plaud: AI Work Companion at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-10-20. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Plaud is an AI-powered note-taking ecosystem combining hardware devices and software to automatically transcribe, summarize, and organize audio from meetings and conversations for productivity-focused professionals. The app demonstrates strong global monetization traction, ranking in the top 10 Productivity Grossing charts across diverse markets including Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Similar apps: Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai, Notion
Plaud: AI Work Companion on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Plaud: AI Work Companion’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 3 linked to your identity and 3 collected anonymously.
Plaud: AI Work Companion downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Plaud: AI Work Companion's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Plaud: AI Work Companion before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: Subscription-led
How Plaud: AI Work Companion makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Unlimited Plan(Monthly) subscription | |
| 2 | Pro Plan(Annually) subscription | |
| 3 | Unlimited Plan(Annually) subscription | |
| 4 | Pro Plan(Monthly) subscription | |
| 5 | Annual Unlimited subscription | |
| 6 | Unlimited Plan(Monthly) subscription | |
| 7 | Unlimited Plan(Annually) subscription | |
| 8 | 600 Minutes Package | |
| 9 | Pro Plan(Annually) subscription | |
| 10 | Pro Plan(Monthly) subscription |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
Apps near Plaud: AI Work Companion on the chart
Productivity Grossing, around #5.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
What users say about Plaud: AI Work Companion
From the 85 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users praise the device's ability to record, transcribe, and summarize meetings effectively for productivity. However, significant dissatisfaction exists regarding aggressive subscription costs, removal of features like speaker labeling, and poor customer support.
Mixed but leaning positive (66% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being useful. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and crashes and bugs. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “Great tool to take notes with”
- Useful: “I would highly recommend it”
- Price & subscription: “They charge $20 per month”
- Ease of use: “It’s simple, reliable, and genuinely useful”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “Paid a lot… for another pay wall”
- Crashes & bugs: “Great, but pause doesn’t work”
- Features & content: “Not recommended; removing features”
- Connection & sync: “But when you can’t connect it’s all moot”
About Plaud: AI Work Companion
Capture meetings, calls and conversations, then turn them into the work you need next. Plaud Intelligence helps you transcribe, summarize, find past context and get work done from every conversation.
At the center is Plaud Agent. Give it a task in plain language and it sees it through: drawing on the right context from your Knowledge base, producing finished work in the format you need, and delivering it where it needs to go.
CAPTURE IN-PERSON MEETINGS, PHONE CALLS, AND ONLINE MEETINGS
Use a Plaud device for in-person meetings, phone calls and conversations on the go. Use Plaud Desktop for online meetings, with no meeting bot required.
Capture more than audio. Highlight key moments as they happen, add notes and include images to give Plaud richer context.
Everything stays together across Plaud Mobile, Plaud Web and Plaud Desktop.
TURN RECORDINGS INTO TRANSCRIPTS AND CLEAR NOTES
Get transcripts and AI summaries after every recording, with support for over 112 languages, and custom vocabulary.
GET WORK DONE WITH PLAUD AGENT
Tell Plaud Agent what you need in plain language. It finds the right context from your conversations and knowledge, then turns it into the work you need.
Use Plaud Agent to:
- Turn customer calls into a research brief
- Draft follow-ups and emails from meetings
- Create project updates, reports, and presentations
- Bring back relevant context from weeks or months ago
- Reuse your preferred workflows with Skills
- Automate recurring work with Routines
- Work across Slack, Notion, Google Calendar, Linear and more
Create ready-to-use documents, presentations, reports and more, with links back to the relevant moments in the original recording for verification. Plaud asks for your confirmation before anything is sent or posted on your behalf.
USE PLAUD EVERYWHERE
Your recordings, transcripts and knowledge stay in sync across Plaud Mobile, Plaud Web and Plaud Desktop, with unlimited cloud storage.
CHOOSE THE PLAN THAT FITS HOW YOU WORK
Every Plaud device includes the Starter Plan, so you can start recording, transcribing and using Plaud Intelligence right away.
Starter Plan
Includes 300 transcription minutes each month.
Pro Plan
Includes 1,200 transcription minutes each month for professionals who record and transcribe more regularly.
Unlimited Plan
Unlimited transcription for professionals who capture conversations throughout their day.
Team Plan
Built for teams, with centralized management, file sharing and shared knowledge capabilities.
GLOBAL SECURITY STANDARDS
Plaud is compliant with GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27701 and EN 18031.
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/
Latest updates
Store changes
What Plaud: AI Work Companion changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Plaud: AI Work Companion Android
Plaud: AI Work Companion gets 5k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Plaud: AI Work Companion is #2 in Tools Grossing on Google Play in Japan and charting in 17 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 25 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Plaud: AI Work Companion at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-10-22. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Plaud is an AI-powered work companion for professionals that captures meetings and conversations across devices to generate transcripts, summaries, and actionable outputs like emails or reports. The app demonstrates strong global monetization performance, ranking #1 in IT Tools Grossing in Italy and securing top-10 positions in diverse markets including France, Japan, South Korea, and Mexico.
Similar apps: Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai, Granola
Plaud: AI Work Companion on Google Play
App details
Tech stack
Trackers and permissions of build v3.21.0, from the εxodus privacy report (CC BY-SA).
Plaud: AI Work Companion downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Plaud: AI Work Companion's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Plaud: AI Work Companion before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: Subscription-led
How Plaud: AI Work Companion makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Unlimited Plan(Monthly) subscription | |
| 2 | Pro Plan(Annually) subscription | |
| 3 | Unlimited Plan(Annually) subscription | |
| 4 | Pro Plan(Monthly) subscription | |
| 5 | Annual Unlimited subscription | |
| 6 | Unlimited Plan(Monthly) subscription | |
| 7 | Unlimited Plan(Annually) subscription | |
| 8 | 600 Minutes Package | |
| 9 | Pro Plan(Annually) subscription | |
| 10 | Pro Plan(Monthly) subscription |
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| ToolsGrossing | #2 | |
| ToolsGrossing | #2 | |
| ToolsGrossing | #3 | |
| ToolsGrossing | #2 | |
| ToolsGrossing | #3 | |
| ToolsGrossing | #2 | |
| ToolsGrossing | #24 | |
| ToolsGrossing | #10 | |
| ToolsGrossing | #9 | |
| ToolsGrossing | #7 | |
| ToolsGrossing | #5 | |
| All AppsGrossing | #71 | |
| ToolsGrossing | #8 | |
| ToolsGrossing | #4 | |
| ToolsGrossing | #7 | |
| ToolsGrossing | #5 | |
| All AppsGrossing | #107 | |
| All AppsGrossing | #82 | |
| All AppsGrossing | #75 | |
| ToolsGrossing | #5 | |
| All AppsGrossing | #51 | |
| All AppsGrossing | #144 | |
| All AppsGrossing | #94 | |
| All AppsGrossing | #103 | |
| All AppsGrossing | #69 | |
| All AppsGrossing | #112 | |
| All AppsGrossing | #97 | |
| All AppsGrossing | #122 | |
| All AppsGrossing | #82 | |
| All AppsGrossing | #140 |
Apps near Plaud: AI Work Companion on the chart
Tools Grossing, around #2.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
What users say about Plaud: AI Work Companion
From the 147 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Users highly praise the app's transcription accuracy and AI summarization capabilities for meeting productivity. However, significant complaints exist regarding Android background sync limitations, intrusive ads on paid hardware, and recent removal of speaker identification features.
Mostly positive (82% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being useful, and being easy to use. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and being hard to use.
What people like
- Useful: “This app is really helpful”
- Ease of use: “This so excellent and easy to use”
- Features & content: “The best new tool in my toolkit!!”
- Price & subscription: “Best money I've ever spent!”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “For a so called "premium product", I'm very sorry I spent all that money”
- Ease of use: “the app should be pretty straightforward, but is way too confusing”
- Features & content: “Now that feature is completely wiped due to "privacy concerns"”
- Connection & sync: “It will be perfect and I will give 10 stars out of 5 if it will also connect to the Google Find My Device”
About Plaud: AI Work Companion
Capture meetings, calls and conversations, then turn them into the work you need next. Plaud Intelligence helps you transcribe, summarize, find past context and get work done from every conversation.
At the center is Plaud Agent. Give it a task in plain language and it sees it through: drawing on the right context from your Knowledge base, producing finished work in the format you need, and delivering it where it needs to go.
CAPTURE IN-PERSON MEETINGS, PHONE CALLS, AND ONLINE MEETINGS
Use a Plaud device for in-person meetings, phone calls and conversations on the go. Use Plaud Desktop for online meetings, with no meeting bot required.
Capture more than audio. Highlight key moments as they happen, add notes and include images to give Plaud richer context.
Everything stays together across Plaud Mobile, Plaud Web and Plaud Desktop.
TURN RECORDINGS INTO TRANSCRIPTS AND CLEAR NOTES
Get transcripts and AI summaries after every recording, with support for over 112 languages, and custom vocabulary.
GET WORK DONE WITH PLAUD AGENT
Tell Plaud Agent what you need in plain language. It finds the right context from your conversations and knowledge, then turns it into the work you need.
Use Plaud Agent to:
- Turn customer calls into a research brief
- Draft follow-ups and emails from meetings
- Create project updates, reports, and presentations
- Bring back relevant context from weeks or months ago
- Reuse your preferred workflows with Skills
- Automate recurring work with Routines
- Work across Slack, Notion, Google Calendar, Linear and more
Create ready-to-use documents, presentations, reports and more, with links back to the relevant moments in the original recording for verification. Plaud asks for your confirmation before anything is sent or posted on your behalf.
USE PLAUD EVERYWHERE
Your recordings, transcripts and knowledge stay in sync across Plaud Mobile, Plaud Web and Plaud Desktop, with unlimited cloud storage.
CHOOSE THE PLAN THAT FITS HOW YOU WORK
Every Plaud device includes the Starter Plan, so you can start recording, transcribing and using Plaud Intelligence right away.
Starter Plan
Includes 300 transcription minutes each month.
Pro Plan
Includes 1,200 transcription minutes each month for professionals who record and transcribe more regularly.
Unlimited Plan
Unlimited transcription for professionals who capture conversations throughout their day.
Team Plan
Built for teams, with centralized management, file sharing and shared knowledge capabilities.
GLOBAL SECURITY STANDARDS
Plaud is compliant with GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27701 and EN 18031.
What's new in 3.30.0
- New team workspaces will receive a welcome file.
- Memory personalizes your Ask Plaud responses.
- Plaud now supports Minnan (Hokkien).
- Plaud now polishes your transcripts automatically such as removing filler words so it's easier to read.
Store changes
What Plaud: AI Work Companion changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
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