Plaud NotePin
Magnetic clip-on wearable. Records in-person conversations and calls; AI summaries, action items, searchable transcripts. AES-256 + TLS 1.2 in transit; doesn't retain audio after transcription. Also sells Note (card-form recorder) and Note Pro.
Active · Verified 2026-10-22 · fresh as of 2026-10-22 · 38 cited facts, 3 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Magnetic clip-on + AI transcription vendor fix
- Tier
- T1
- Section
- Voice-first / wearable AI memory
- Created
- searched not found fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- NotePin $159 / NotePin S $179 / Note Pro $189; Starter plan free (300 min/mo); Pro $17.99/mo or $99.99/yr (1,200 min); Unlimited $29.99/mo or $239.99/yr vendor fix
- Funding
- $5M total Bootstrapped · no data third-party fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-22 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
Memory taxonomy
- storage
- file
- retrieval
- extraction-pull
- persistence
- long-term
- update
- append-only
- unit
- episode
- governance
- user-controllable
- conflict
- append
When to use
Optimised for: always-on capture + lifelog timeline + voice UX
Anti-fit: not for enterprise compliance-regulated environments without explicit consent flows
Pros & cons
Pros
Hardware + AI integrated — single-vendor accountability for capture, transcription, and privacy posture; ISO 27001 / SOC II / HIPAA certified.
Cons
Hardware lock-in ($169 device); transcription requires cloud unless self-hosted.
Claims & capabilities
"World's No.1 AI note-taking brand." Hardware $169; free 300 min/month. ISO 27001, SOC II, HIPAA certified. Up to 20-hour recording battery.
Technical surface
- API surface
- not applicable — consumer device
- Backend storage
- custom
- Deployment
- Managed-only
- Embedding model
- locked
- Multi-tenancy
- hard-isolation (per device)
- MCP
- yes — first-party MCP & CLI (docs.plaud.ai) plus device SDK/API
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- searched not found
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Similar systems
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- Granola T1
Mac/iOS app (no hardware). Captures meeting audio via system-audio tap (no bot joining); generates notes from your shorthand + audio. Local audio processing claim; cloud for summaries. Enterprise tier opts out of model training.
- Bee T1
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- Era Computer T5
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- Friend T1
Pendant necklace (~2 inches). Always-on listening feeds a persistent AI companion persona. Companionship-framed rather than productivity / recall. Cloud LLM backend; no detailed encryption claims.
- Limitless T1
Former Rewind/Limitless lifelog (Pendant wearable + screen/audio capture with timeline search). Acquired by Meta (2025-12); Pendant no longer sold as of 2025-12-05, service withdrawn from the EU, UK, Brazil, China, Israel, South Korea and Turkey on 2025-12-05, desktop/web recording ended and Rewind capture disabled from 2025-12-19; existing Pendant customers supported throughout 2026.
- Memories.ai LVMM 2.0 / Project LUCI T2
Developer-first reference platform for AI wearables. LVMM 2.0 captures visual data through video, encodes it into frames on-device, and stores moments as searchable memories; companion app surfaces past conversations/decisions/experiences. Hardware-level security via Qualcomm partnership; cloud sync for enterprise tiers.
Sources (37 cited facts, 3 third-party)
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- What it is Magnetic clip-on + AI transcription vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Magnetic clip-on wearable. Records in-person conversations and calls; AI summaries, acti… vendor
- Claims / benefits "World's No.1 AI note-taking brand." Hardware $169; free 300 min/month. ISO 27001, SOC I… vendor
- Modalities voice vendor
- Funding $5M total Bootstrapped · no data third-party
- Customers / scale $180M ARR 11-50 ppl no data (consumer hardware - bootstrapped to $180M ARR) third-party
- Pricing NotePin $159 / NotePin S $179 / Note Pro $189; Starter plan free (300 min/mo); Pro $17.9… vendor
- Compliance SOC 2 Type II; HIPAA; GDPR-compliant; ISO 27001 vendor
- Data handling By default audio stored locally on device; Private Sync Cloud (PSC) optional; AES-256 at… vendor
- Deployment Managed-only vendor
- HQ US third-party
- Founders / pedigree self-funded; founders Nathan Xu (Wuhan University grad; banking/VC background) et al. vendor
- Memory volume / scale no scale claim vendor
- Backend storage custom vendor
- Multi-tenancy hard-isolation (per device) vendor
- Encryption at-rest + in-transit vendor
- Embedding model locked vendor
- Consistency strong vendor
- Versioning immutable append-log vendor
- Tombstoning append-only no delete vendor
- Schema evolution free-form / no schema vendor
- Namespace primitives hierarchical vendor
- Contradiction handling always append (no resolution) vendor
- Forgetting policy user-controlled forget vendor
- MCP support yes — first-party MCP & CLI (docs.plaud.ai) plus device SDK/API vendor
- Validated verticals consumer / individual (voice + wearable users) vendor
- Time to running <1day (purchase hardware + pair) or <10min (software-only meeting bots) vendor
- Anti-fit not for enterprise compliance-regulated environments without explicit consent flows vendor
- Optimised for always-on capture + lifelog timeline + voice UX vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure self-contained device + cloud back-end vendor
- Pros Hardware + AI integrated — single-vendor accountability for capture, transcription, and … vendor
- Cons Hardware lock-in ($169 device); transcription requires cloud unless self-hosted. vendor
- Project & sources plaud.ai NotePin product data policy vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
What changed
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- 2026-10-22
- Pricing “Hardware-bundled” → “NotePin $159 / NotePin S $179 / Note Pro $189; Starter plan free (300 min/mo); Pro $17.99/mo or $99.99/yr (1,200 min); Unlimited $29.99/mo or $239.99/yr” source
- MCP support first recorded as “yes — first-party MCP & CLI (docs.plaud.ai) plus device SDK/API” source