Is Limitless still being sold?

No. Meta acquired Limitless in December 2025. Limitless stopped selling its pendant, and its companion product Rewind was sunset. Meta says existing pendants remain supported for at least one year. If you're deciding today, Plaud is the only one of the two you can still buy new.

Plaud or Limitless — which one should I buy?

Since Meta's December 2025 acquisition, Limitless pendants are no longer sold new, so most new buyers today are choosing Plaud by default. If you already own a Limitless pendant, Meta says it remains supported for at least a year, so you can keep using it while you plan an export. Pick Plaud if you mostly want clean transcripts of intentional sessions: meetings, interviews, sales calls, therapy.

Which has better transcription accuracy?

Plaud has the edge on structured audio — a meeting room, a phone call, a quiet interview — because the recorder is positioned intentionally. Limitless does respectable ambient transcription but takes a hit on noisy environments, side conversations, and quiet voices ten feet away. If transcript quality is the #1 metric, Plaud wins. If coverage is the #1 metric, Limitless wins.

How does battery and form factor compare?

Plaud is a small magnetic clip about the size of a credit-card-thick coin. You start and stop it deliberately. Battery lasts a typical day of meetings comfortably. Limitless is a pendant worn continuously; battery is sized for ambient all-day use but charges nightly. Plaud is more pocketable and forgettable; Limitless is more visible and prompts conversations.

What about privacy — for me and the people around me?

Both raise the same hard question: you're capturing people who didn't ask to be captured. Plaud's intentional shape makes consent conversations easier — you can show people the device, hit record visibly, start a session. Limitless's always-on shape makes it harder — the people around you may not realize you're recording everything. Neither company solves the social problem for you. Have the conversation with the people you spend time with.

Can I move my transcripts between them?

Not natively, no. Both have exports — Plaud's transcript downloads are clean per-session files; Limitless gives you a full transcript dump from the dashboard. The files are just text, so a third-party vault can ingest both. The thing that doesn't move is each app's UI for searching and replaying. That's the lock-in.

What happened to Limitless after the Meta acquisition?

Meta acquired Limitless in December 2025. New pendant sales stopped immediately, and Rewind — Limitless's earlier product — was sunset. Meta committed to supporting existing pendants for at least one year, but did not commit beyond that window. If you own one, export your transcripts now rather than waiting.

Does Konshus support both?

Limitless has a dedicated importer in Konshus. Plaud transcripts come in three ways: drop the export files into Documents, forward the emailed transcript to your Vault Inbox address, or wait for the dedicated Voice Memos importer (on the roadmap — you can join the waitlist at /vault/import/voice-memos). The distilled persona that comes out is provider-agnostic, so the captured context becomes usable in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or whatever ships next.

A comparison · Updated October 2026 · ~6 min read

Plaud vs Limitless: which AI recorder is right for you

They get compared constantly. They shouldn't be — they're built for different jobs. But the questions people are actually asking ("which one is better?", "do I need both?", "is the always-on creepy?") deserve straight answers. Here they are.

The shape difference

Plaud. Small clip-on recorder. Intentional capture — you start a session, you stop it. Built around meetings, calls, interviews. Strong transcription accuracy because the mic is positioned with purpose. Per-session files that map cleanly to "the conversation I had with X about Y".
Limitless. Always-on pendant. Ambient capture across your whole day — meetings, hallway exchanges, the things you mutter at your desk. Meta acquired Limitless in December 2025 and stopped selling the pendant new; Meta says existing pendants remain supported for at least one year.

Pick Plaud if…

You spend most of your day in named sessions: meetings, calls, client visits.
Transcript quality matters more than coverage.
You want a visible device you can show, point at, and use to start a "we're recording" conversation.
The always-on framing makes you (or the people around you) uncomfortable.
You're a clinician, consultant, lawyer, journalist, or anyone with a session-shaped job.

Pick Limitless if…

The valuable conversations in your life happen outside scheduled meetings.
You want a passive record of decisions, ideas, and offhand observations.
You're comfortable with the social weight of an always-on device and have the conversations with the people in your life.
You're using it for personal memory and reflection more than business artifacts.
You'd rather have rough transcripts of everything than perfect transcripts of a few things.

The Meta acquisition, in plain terms

Meta acquired Limitless in December 2025. New pendant sales stopped, and Rewind, Limitless's earlier product, was sunset. Meta committed to supporting pendants already in the wild for at least a year — but made no commitment beyond that. If you own a Limitless pendant, the practical move is to export your transcripts now, not wait for an end-of-support notice.

What they share

Both companies store your transcripts in their cloud, searchable inside their app. Both have export. Neither gives you a clean way to use the captured context outside their own product. If the company pivots, sunsets, or quietly changes the free tier, the version of your life that lives only in their app goes with it.

This isn't a Plaud or Limitless flaw — it's the shape of every consumer hardware product with a cloud backend. Treat them as rented until you've exported. Once a month is enough.

Short answer

Plaud for clean transcripts of intentional sessions — and currently the only one of the two still sold new. Limitless is now owned by Meta: no new pendant sales, Rewind sunset, existing pendants supported at least a year. If you own a Limitless pendant, export your transcripts into a vault you control now — that's the only part of the setup that survives the acquisition.

The portable answer

Konshus is the vault layer under either device. Limitless has a dedicated importer; Plaud transcripts come in through documents. We distill the captured conversation into a persona you can paste into any AI — and the original transcripts stay in your vault, searchable, for as long as you want them.

See also the full ambient capture stack (Granola, Friend, Rabbit, etc.) and how to back up Limitless transcripts for the device-specific playbook.

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Whichever you wear, keep what it hears.

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