Comparison

COLOP e vs Plaud

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

Head to head
About

COLOP e

Design and print custom full-color imprints onto various materials using a mobile printer. Personalize items, enhance craft projects, streamline office tasks, and create unique event decorations with this app.

Highlights
  • Custom design creation
  • Smart functions (date, QR code)
  • Various printing modes
  • Template library
  • Seamless WiFi connectivity
  • Device monitoring
  • Offline imprint storage
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This app only works in combination with the COLOP e-mark or e-mark create. The COLOP e-mark and e-mark create are advanced mobile printers that allow you to effortlessly print your designs onto various objects and materials. Whether you are at the office or being creative at home, you can easily design your imprints in the e-mark app and print them in full-colour and by that explore a new world of mobile printing. Find out more on www.colop.com Why choose the COLOP e-mark or e-mark create? - Personalisation: Stand out with unique and personalised items or mark them as yours. - Creative expression: Bring your craft projects on a whole new level with your own designs. - Business efficiency: Streamline and organise your office tasks with the help of the little printer. - Educational benefit: Inspire and motivate students or children with colourful and individual feedback and praises. - Unmatched flexibility: Use it as a versatile marketing tool and benefit from its mobility and small size. - Event planning: Prepare for your next party or event with custom designs and decorations. App features: - Custom design: Create your own full-colour imprints using images, logos, texts, cliparts and own fonts. - Smart functions: Add automatic date, time, numbering, or the QR and barcode generator for easily managing daily office tasks. - Various printing modes: Special modes allow you to print continuously, select the starting position and much more – perfect for printing on labels, ribbons, cards or signs. - Wide range of templates: Use templates in the app for both business and creative uses or find even more free templates on our website to load them directly into the app. - Seamless connectivity: Connect your e-mark device to the app via WiFi for quick and easy printing your custom designs. - Device monitoring: Check your device’s connectivity, ink or battery level directly in the app. - Offline mode: Choose up to three imprints to be permanently stored on the device and available without connection to the app. - Multilingual support: Choose from various languages including English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish and Arabic.

About

Plaud

This app acts as an AI work companion, transforming spoken words into actionable notes and summaries. It supports various input methods, including audio, text, and images, and offers advanced AI processing for transcription, summarization, and insight generation. Seamlessly integrate captured information into your workflow across multiple platforms.

Highlights
  • Multimodal AI note capture
  • AI transcription in 112 languages
  • Customizable AI summaries
  • Ask Plaud for insights
  • Automated workflow integration
  • Cross-platform sync and storage
Features
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[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 2,000,000 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. Team Plan: For small to medium sized teams that want to centrally manage billing, users, and devices. 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

COLOP e4 screens
Plaud4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Plaud at 73% against COLOP e's 25%. Plaud also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and chart position (#25 vs unranked). COLOP e's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 18). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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 16 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. COLOP e asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

COLOP e ships an update every 6 weeks, Plaud weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
COLOP e versus Plaud: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCOLOP ePlaud
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.9 (23K ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews72.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—23K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#25 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size111 MB220 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCOLOP Stempelerzeugung Skopek GmbH & Co KGPLAUD LLC

Customer experience

COLOP e

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative25.0%

Plaud

All ratings23,427 ratings
Positive98.0%
Neutral1.0%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews1,480 reviews
Positive72.6%
Neutral6.3%
Negative21.1%

Bugs and requests

COLOP e

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

COLOP e

No in-app purchases

16 purchases

Plaud

Subscriptions12
  • Pro Plan(Monthly)$14.991 Month
  • Pro Plan(Monthly)$17.991 Month
  • Unlimited Plan(Monthly)$23.991 Month
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  • Unlimited Plan(Monthly)3 Days trial$29.991 Month
  • Unlimited Plan(Monthly)2 variants$29.991 Month
  • Pro Plan(Annually)$99.991 Year
  • 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
  • Unlimited Plan(Annually)1 Month trial$239.991 Year
One-time4
  • 120 Minutes Package$2.99
  • 600 Minutes Package$12.99
  • 3000 Minutes Package$59.99
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  • 6000 Minutes Package$99.99

Questions

Is COLOP e free?
COLOP e is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Plaud free?
Plaud is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do COLOP e or Plaud have ads?
Neither COLOP e nor Plaud shows ads.
Which is updated more often, COLOP e or Plaud?
COLOP e ships an update every 6 weeks, and Plaud weekly. Most recently, COLOP e was updated on September 26, 2026 and Plaud on October 13, 2026.

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