Overview
- Answer every question in live meetings with confidence using real-time transcription with speaker labels and AI-drafted replies you can actually say
- Never lose track of decisions or follow-ups with automatic meeting recaps containing action items saved alongside full transcripts
- Get instant answers from anything on your screen by dragging a box around charts, contracts, error messages, or emails for intelligent interpretation
- Keep sensitive conversations private with local processing, zero data sent to servers, and API keys stored in your system's secure storage
- Stay invisible during screen shares and recordings because the overlay never takes focus and never appears to other participants
- Use your existing AI subscriptions without new accounts by connecting your own API key or CLI including Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, Qwen, or Ollama
- Switch between hundreds of models mid-conversation to match the best AI for each question without restarting or losing context
- Attach PDFs, documents, slides, and images to ask questions about files without leaving your call
- Capture full screenshots, selected regions, or automatic timed screenshots to get help with anything visible on your display
- Start transcribing instantly when meetings begin with automatic meeting detection that offers transcription without bot integration
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Invisible on screen shares and recordings
- Live transcription with real-time speaker labels
- Drafts a reply the moment a question is asked
- Detects when a meeting starts and offers to transcribe
- Automatic recap with decisions and action items
- Transcription-only mode for clean notes
- Works in any meeting app, no bot joins the call
- Screenshot, region and timed capture
- Reads PDFs, documents, slides and images
- Free with your own API key or CLI
- Works with Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex and Ollama
- Hundreds of hosted models on Pro, switchable mid-chat
- Chats, meetings and files stored on your computer
- Custom prompts with attached knowledge files
- Native app, 9 to 16 MB, opens in under a second
- Rebindable global keyboard shortcuts
- macOS, Windows and Linux
- Option to switch between Pluely API and custom providers
- Customizable window transparency
- Undetectable in screen shares and recordings
- Lightweight (app size: 10MB)
- Tauri powered: 10x faster than Electron apps
- Advanced curl-based integration for speech-to-text providers
- Support for multiple languages and audio formats
- Real-Time Testing for custom STT provider
- Supports multiple system prompt profiles
- Invisible mouse cursor
- One-click model switching
- Customizable Shortcuts
- Zero data storage or collection
- Automatic updates
- Priority feature requests and premium support for Pro users
- Zero maintenance and setup for Pro users
Cons
- Desktop only, no mobile app
- Not open source
- Live transcription needs Pro or your own Deepgram key
- System audio capture on macOS needs 14.2 or later
- Visible in screen shares on Linux
- Hosted plans have monthly transcription hours
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❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Pluely can interpret various visuals displayed on your screen. You simply need to drag a box around any part of the screen you want to ask about, and Pluely will provide an insightful interpretation.
Pluely is a versatile intelligent assistant compatible with various meeting apps, lecture streams, or videos. It does not require integration with specific video calling platforms to function.
No, Pluely remains completely undetectable during video calls. Its unobtrusive nature makes it invisible during screen sharing, ensuring that it does not divert attention during your meetings or video calls.
Pluely prioritizes user privacy. It allows local processing of discussions and content, resulting in no data being sent to servers. In addition, users can use personal API keys for added privacy and control. Their data handling is in line with a privacy-first approach, with zero data storage or collection.
Pluely supports multiple 'frontier models', this includes various variants of the GPT model making it a versatile tool for interpretation and query handling. It even allows connections to other AI providers like OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, xAI Grok, and others through custom setups.
Yes, Pluely's transcription feature captures both mic and system audio locally. This ensures it can work seamlessly with meeting apps, streams, or videos to provide real-time inputs and responses.
Pluely proactively listens to conversations and delivers answers even before they're required. Its intelligent system allows it to auto-respond during live conversations based on set triggers and pacing.
Yes, Pluely can indeed handle questions outside the scope of its training data. It accomplishes this by integrating web search capabilities, thus allowing it to fetch solutions that are not inherently acknowledged by its pre-existing knowledge.
Pluely inherently integrates web search capabilities into its system. There's no explicit setup required at your end. This allows Pluely to answer questions beyond the scope of its training data.
With Pluely, enabling proactive AI assistance is quite straightforward and does not require exhaustive setup. Once installed, the application remains over everything you do, listening and providing insights based on conversations and content visible on your screen.
No, Pluely's overlay is visible only to you, the user. This makes it stealthy and unobtrusive, remaining invisible as it works in any environment, on any video call or screen share. It is completely undetectable by other participants.
No, Pluely does not need any bots to join your calls. It works by interpreting and understanding the on-screen content and conversations, which does not require bot integration on calls or meetings.
Pluely provides several unique benefits for meetings. It listens proactively and provides answers before they are needed, contributes by interpreting visuals on your screen, transcribes audio and becomes a handy tool to enhance productivity. Furthermore, Pluely does all this while remaining completely undetectable during calls and screen sharing.
Pluely can interpret and provide helpful insights about any errors displayed on your screen. Its approach is based on understanding screen content, be it textual or visual, and providing you with informative responses.
Yes, Pluely can provide intelligent interpretation for contracts displayed on your screen. You can highlight a segment of the contract, and Pluely will deliver insights about that section, thereby serving as a handy tool for contract analysis.
Pluely can help manage emails by offering intelligent insights and responses to email content. You may use it to understand complex emails, respond to inquiries, or interpret certain segments of emails for a detailed understanding.
'Frontier models' support refers to Pluely's ability to employ and utilize various advanced AI models, including various variants of the GPT model. This enables it to comprehend and deliver more accurate and insightful responses.
By interpreting the visual data contained in the chart and providing pertinent responses based on the interpreted data, Pluely provides an interpretation of charts. You just drag a box around the chart and Pluely will analyze it.
Indeed, Pluely works with natural language processing. This is evidenced by its ability to interpret and respond to user queries, discussions, and content in a meaningful and contextual manner.
Yes, Pluely allows the customization to use personal API keys. This is in line with their commitment to user privacy and ensures that the user maintains greater control during the operation.
Pricing
Pricing model
Freemium
Paid options from
$15/month
Billing frequency
Monthly
Refund policy
Refund requests are handled through support together with the payment provider.
