Plaud, an AI wearable company burst onto the scene a couple of years ago, creating a line of AI-powered recording devices to change how you take notes. Now, they’re back with two new releases.
Announced this weekend at CES, Plaud is releasing the NotePin S — an update on its previous version of this same product. The NotePin is designed to clip onto your clothes or wear as a wristband, recording conversations to listen back to later.
It also uses AI to analyze your conversations and meetings, producing notes and key pieces of information from these discussions. The NotePin S is smaller and lighter (now 17.4g) and its design lets you to wear it as a clip, necklace, or pin.
It can now also capture audio, notes, images and highlights, giving the user more options for how to use it. More importantly, it has improved on one of the bigger criticisms of its predecessor, and can record audio from up to 9 feet away, according to the company.
It can also record for up to 20 hours, and has a standby battery life of around 40 days.
A unique feature that sets this recording device apart from Plaud’s previous releases is the instant-highlight function. This allows you to press and hold the device’s button to make quick vocal notes.
Take it to your desktop
So far, Plaud has only released its technology in two formats — wearables and an app. At CES 2026, it also announced the release of Plaud Desktop for meetings.
This is similar to the technology that is seen in the likes of Gemini on Google Meet, or Otter AI. Plaud doesn’t use a meeting bot, but rather natively detects meetings on platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and Slack, allowing users to capture audio, notes and screenshots as the meeting is happening.
Once your meeting is done, Plaud will upload all of the files to your app to listen back through or transcribe at a later time. It will also use AI to organize these notes, picking out the most important details that came up.
Both the desktop app and the new Plaud app are available for purchase and download immediately.
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