Comparison

Engage vs Plaud

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Engage

This app provides veterinary sales professionals with real-time access to customer data, purchase history, and loyalty program progress. It facilitates purchases and helps build stronger customer relationships to increase sales volume.

Highlights
  • Real-time customer data and insights
  • View purchase history
  • Track loyalty program progress
  • Facilitate purchases
  • Interactive analytics
  • Real-time deals
Features
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The Vetcove Engage app is your key to productivity as a veterinary sales professional. For the first time, your company's data and insights into customers in your territory are available in real time and at your fingertips. View each customer's purchase history of your products, interactive analytics, and progress toward each of your loyalty programs. You can even facilitate purchases through all of your sales channels with a few taps. Engage is your key to building stronger relationships, increasing sales volume, and cultivating new business among veterinary clinics, hospital groups, and nonprofits. CUSTOMER OVERVIEW Select a customer to access an overview of that customer’s spend on your company's products, contact details, and other high-level metrics. PURCHASE LOG For any given customer, view a complete log of the customer’s purchases of your company's products from all vendors, including orders that were just placed that very day. Since it's updated in real time and looks back as far as three years, you'll never again be uninformed about a customer's engagement with your brands. PURCHASE VOLUMES See an interactive display of a customer’s spend on your products, broken down by supplier and product line, to really understand how they order. Buying patterns for each product line provide early indicators of when behavior is changing and help you know when it's time to call on a customer to reorder. ADD TO CUSTOMER CART When an owner or doctor indicates intent to buy a product, Engage helps ensure the order doesn't slip through the cracks. Add an item directly to a customer's Vetcove shopping cart with a custom message, and it will be there waiting for them the next time they log in to order supplies. LOYALTY View real-time progress toward loyalty rewards for every customer, and keep them informed about opportunities to earn greater rewards before deadlines come up. DEALS View real-time deals available for every customer, and keep them informed about opportunities to purchase products on Vetcove. Engage helps you build stronger customer relationships, and makes you a more effective territory manager for your organization. Get started connecting with your veterinary customers in ways you never thought possible!

About

Plaud

Capture and transcribe meetings, calls, and conversations to generate summaries, notes, and finished work. Leverage AI to extract context, automate tasks, and create documents from your discussions. Seamlessly syncs across devices with unlimited cloud storage.

Highlights
  • AI-powered transcription and summarization
  • Capture in-person, phone, and online meetings
  • Generate custom documents and reports
  • Integrates with Slack, Notion, Google Calendar
  • Unlimited cloud storage
  • Custom vocabulary support
  • Voice differentiation
Features
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Plaud is the AI work companion trusted by over 3 million professionals worldwide. 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/

Screenshots

Engage4 screens
Plaud4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Engage at none against Plaud's 10. Engage also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Plaud's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (24K vs 8). On price, rating, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Plaud sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month. Engage asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Engage against 4.9 for Plaud. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plaud has 24K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Engage ships an update every 9 months, Plaud weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Engage versus Plaud: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEngagePlaud
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better4.9 (24K ratings)
Positive reviews—72.4% of reviews
Number of ratings824K — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
Best chart rank—#25 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB207 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVetcove Inc.PLAUD LLC

Customer experience

Engage

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Plaud

All ratings24,123 ratings
Positive98.0%
Neutral1.0%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews1,511 reviews
Positive72.4%
Neutral6.3%
Negative21.3%

Bugs and requests

Engage

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Plaud

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Transcription errors, especially for non-English languages
  • Exporting issues with audio and text files
  • Inconsistent performance and app crashes
  • Connectivity problems between device and app

Requested features

6 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Ability to pause and resume recordings
  • Improved summary quality and customization
  • Better organization and folder structure for notes
  • Integration with other productivity tools
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  • Support for more languages beyond English

In-app purchases

None

Engage

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Plaud

Subscriptions8
  • Pro Plan(Monthly)$17.991 Month
  • Unlimited Plan(Monthly)$23.991 Month
  • Unlimited Plan(Monthly)$29.991 Month
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  • Pro Plan(Annually)7 Days trial$99.991 Year
  • Pro Plan(Annually)3 Days trial$99.991 Year
  • Unlimited Plan(Annually)7 Days trial$239.991 Year
  • Unlimited Plan(Annually)$239.991 Year
  • Annual Unlimited3 Days trial$239.991 Year
One-time2
  • 120 Minutes Package$2.99
  • 600 Minutes Package$12.99

Questions

Is Engage free?
Engage is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Plaud free?
Plaud is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Engage or Plaud?
Engage is rated higher. Engage averages 5.0 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Plaud averages 4.9 from 24K ratings.
Do Engage or Plaud have ads?
Neither Engage nor Plaud shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Engage or Plaud?
Engage ships an update every 9 months, and Plaud weekly. Most recently, Engage was updated on November 2, 2026 and Plaud on November 11, 2026.

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