Comparison

YYProbe vs Plaud

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

Head to head
About

YYProbe

This app transforms your meeting conversations into searchable text, offering real-time transcription and analysis. It helps improve online meeting efficiency by visualizing discussions, tracking participant contributions, and providing a searchable history of past meetings. Enhance your productivity by automating note-taking and gaining insights from your discussions.

Highlights
  • Real-time speech-to-text transcription
  • Automatic keyword categorization
  • Participant speech and word frequency analysis
  • Searchable conversation history
  • Edit and share transcribed meetings
  • Supports multi-user video calls
Features
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■ Recommended for those who: • Want to make better use of meeting conversations • Need to visualize and analyze conversations or store them as organizational knowledge • Want to improve online meeting efficiency • Struggle with unclear audio in online meetings, making communication difficult • Want to hold meetings without being restricted to specific devices (smartphones, PCs, etc.) • Want to enhance meetings with audio, video, and subtitles • Have trouble recalling what was said in meetings, leading to unclear follow-up actions • Spend too much time creating minutes for long meetings • Need an alternative to transcription or note-taking • Manually type and record interview or meeting discussions on the spot • Use an IC recorder as a substitute for taking notes ■ Key Features of YYProbe Lite: • Supports multi-user video calls • Converts speech into text in real-time using voice recognition • Automatically categorizes registered keywords within conversations • Aggregates spoken content within a meeting, showing participant speech counts and frequently used words • Allows users to listen to and edit transcribed speech • Enables sending transcribed meeting conversations via email • Lets users search past recorded meetings using keywords • Provides access to conversation history for meetings you’ve attended • Improves speech recognition accuracy by registering frequently used words (such as names, company names, product names, or internal abbreviations) ■ Additional Features in the Enterprise Version of YYProbe: • Removes Lite version restrictions (usage time, video calls, etc.) • Integrates with the online whiteboard “YYKnowledgeboard” • Connects with the knowledge analysis system “YYAnalytics” • Links to the video-sharing app “YY Video Share” • Enhanced security and management features Note: The enterprise version requires a separate contract and a “Corporate ID” provided by our company. YYProbe brings you valuable insights! Start recording your conversations today!

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

YYProbe3 screens
Plaud4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: YYProbe at none against Plaud's 18. YYProbe also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and device support (4 vs 2). Plaud's advantage is chart position (#24 vs unranked). On price, review sentiment, ads 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. YYProbe asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

YYProbe ships an update every 2 days, Plaud weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
YYProbe versus Plaud: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYYProbePlaud
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.9 (22K ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews72.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—22K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#24 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.514.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size136 MB220 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer株式会社エクォス・リサーチPLAUD LLC

Customer experience

YYProbe

Written reviews18 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative16.7%

Plaud

All ratings22,497 ratings
Positive98.1%
Neutral0.9%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews1,445 reviews
Positive72.9%
Neutral6.2%
Negative20.9%

Bugs and requests

YYProbe

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

YYProbe

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 YYProbe free?
YYProbe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Plaud free?
Plaud is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do YYProbe or Plaud have ads?
Neither YYProbe nor Plaud shows ads.
Which is updated more often, YYProbe or Plaud?
YYProbe ships an update every 2 days, and Plaud weekly. Most recently, YYProbe was updated on September 20, 2026 and Plaud on September 25, 2026.

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