Pocket AI recorder pricing: the device, the free plan and Pro
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Pocket (the AI recorder sold at heypocket.com, made by Open Vision Engineering, Inc.) is a small recorder that sticks to the back of your phone. You pay for the device once, and there's a free plan with no monthly fee. Pro is optional. Here's what each piece costs and what you get, using only Pocket's own pages.
Quick answer
- The device: $129 listed on Pocket's store (checked 2026-10-25). Promos change often.
- The free plan: Pocket says it's "Free to use, forever", with unlimited standard-accuracy transcription. Summaries are kept for 30 days.
- Pro: $19.99 a month billed yearly ($239.88 a year). It keeps summaries forever, uses Pocket's highest-accuracy transcription, and adds unlimited Ask Pocket chats, more exports and more app syncs.
- Enterprise: custom pricing. It's the only plan where Pocket lists HIPAA mode and BAA support.
- Two-year totals: $129 on the free plan, $608.76 with Pro paid yearly. See the table below.
The device (as of 2026-10-25)
| What | Per Pocket |
|---|---|
| Price | $129 listed on Pocket's store (checked 2026-10-25); promos change often |
| How it's carried | MagSafe mount on the back of your phone; an adhesive mount is included for non-MagSafe phones |
| Microphones | 2 studio mics plus 1 contact mic that Pocket says "captures phone calls without speaker" |
| Battery | "4 days of active use" |
| Storage | 64 GB on the device, plus cloud sync |
| Range | "Up to about 15 meters, depending on the environment" |
| Size and weight | 52 g (3.4 x 2.2 x 0.2 in) |
| Phones | iOS and Android, plus a web app |
| Returns and warranty | 30 days from delivery; one-year warranty |
We only use the listed price above. Deals change often; check the vendor's site.
Plans (as of 2026-10-25)
| Plan | Price | What Pocket lists |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Unlimited transcription (standard accuracy); Ask Pocket (3 chats a day, up to 3 messages per chat); unlimited summaries, saved for 30 days; unlimited to-dos and task app integrations; mind maps; text export and audio download |
| Pro | $19.99/mo billed yearly ($239.88/yr) | Everything in Free, plus summaries saved forever, highest-accuracy transcription, unlimited Ask Pocket chats, summaries emailed to you, Deep Research reports in Ask Pocket, Notion, Google Drive and OneDrive sync, Linear, Asana and ClickUp task sync, 80+ templates and custom templates, full live transcription while recording, and PDF, DOCX and Markdown export |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing | Everything in Pro, plus custom workflows, API keys and webhooks, admin controls and audit tools, seat-based billing, organization-wide export, and HIPAA mode and BAA support |
Deals change often; check the vendor's site.
Monthly billing: Pocket's plan table shows Pro only as billed yearly. We didn't find a separate month-to-month Pro price on the pages we read, so it's not on this page (not checked).
What the free plan really covers
- Transcription has no minute cap, per Pocket, but it's standard accuracy. Pro uses "highest accuracy transcription".
- Summaries disappear from the free plan after 30 days. If you want to keep them, export them (text export is on the free plan) or pay for Pro.
- Ask Pocket is capped at 3 chats a day with up to 3 messages each on the free plan.
- Works offline. Pocket says it records and stores audio on the device without a connection, then syncs when you open the app.
Two-year cost math
Arithmetic on the listed prices above, one user, before tax and shipping. Not a measured result. Plaud rows are here for scale only: their free plan has a monthly minute cap and Pocket's doesn't, so this isn't like-for-like.
| Setup | 2-year total |
|---|---|
| Pocket, free plan | $129 |
| Pocket + Pro, billed yearly | $608.76 |
| Plaud Note, Starter only (300 min a month) | $159 |
| Plaud Note + Pro annual | $348.98 with Plaud's bundle, $358.98 bought separately |
How we got them: Pocket $129 plus 2 x $239.88 ($479.76). Plaud figures are from Plaud pricing explained (Plaud Note $159, Pro $99.99 a year, Note + Pro bundle $248.99), re-read in Plaud's store data on 2026-10-25.
For the full side by side, see Plaud Note vs Pocket. For other devices, see Plaud alternatives.
Privacy and consent
Recording laws: tell people first. Federal law and most states let you record a conversation you're part of. About 11 states, including California, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Washington, generally require everyone's consent, and a few states mix the rules. Oregon, for example, requires that everyone in an in-person conversation be told it's being recorded, while phone calls need one person's consent (RCFP guide, ORS 165.540). If people are in different states, the stricter law may apply. Rules outside the US differ too, and many employers, schools and clinics have their own policies. A meeting bot showing up in the participant list is a notice, not consent. The same goes for a "this call may be recorded" greeting: it may not tell people that an AI service is transcribing or summarizing the call, so name the AI note taker when you ask. This is general information, not legal advice. If you're unsure, ask a lawyer where you live.
A simple way to ask. Start recording first, so your announcement is captured on the recording (Washington law requires that). Then say:
"Quick heads-up: I'd like to record this and use an AI note taker to transcribe it, so I don't miss anything. The recording and notes are stored with [tool name]. Is everyone OK with that?"
Wait for a clear yes from each person. If anyone says no, stop and delete what you captured. For meetings with outside guests, also put a line in the invite: "This meeting may be recorded and transcribed by an AI note taker. Let me know beforehand if you'd prefer it isn't."
- Tell people. A pocket recorder is quiet and easy to miss, so people won't know unless you say so. In all-party consent states, and for in-person talks in places like Oregon, recording without telling everyone can be a crime.
- Phone calls too. Pocket's contact mic records both sides of a call through the back of your phone, and nothing on the call tells the other person. Say it at the start and wait for a clear yes. Some states, including California, require everyone on a call to agree, and if the other person is in another state, the stricter rule may apply. Pocket's privacy policy says getting consent from people it records is your responsibility.
- Where the audio goes (vendor claims): Pocket's homepage says it's "Powered by GPT-5, Claude, and more" and "model-agnostic". Its privacy policy says it shares data with service providers for "transcription/AI processing" but doesn't name its AI providers. Pocket says data is encrypted in transit and at rest, "never sold, never traded", and hosted in the US, and that it won't use "your personal Recordings to train our models without your consent". Read Pocket's privacy page before you record anything sensitive.
- Health or legal work: Pocket lists a BAA only on Enterprise.
What we did and didn't do
We read Pocket's homepage, pricing page and FAQ on 2026-10-25, plus the store's public product data for prices. We didn't buy a Pocket or a Pro plan, so nothing here is about transcript accuracy, battery life or how well the contact mic picks up calls.
Sources (checked 2026-10-25)
- Pocket homepage (device specs, plans, FAQ, returns, privacy claims): https://heypocket.com/
- Pocket pricing page: https://heypocket.com/pages/home4-pricing
- Pocket store product data (device and plan prices): https://heypocket.com/products.json
- Pocket privacy policy (consent, AI processing, training): https://heypocket.com/pages/privacy
- Plaud store product data (Plaud prices in the 2-year table): https://www.plaud.ai/products.json
- RCFP recording guide: https://www.rcfp.org/introduction-to-reporters-recording-guide/
- Oregon ORS 165.540: https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_165.540
Changes
- 2026-10-25: page first written. Device, plan and FAQ details checked on Pocket's pages in Sources.
- 2026-10-25: Review fixes. Phone-call line now covers all-party consent and cross-state calls; AI-provider line quotes Pocket's homepage and privacy policy; promo-pages sentence trimmed; privacy policy added to Sources.
- 2026-10-26: standard consent block now adds that a "this call may be recorded" greeting may not tell people an AI service is transcribing or summarizing the call.