What is free for ever, what a licence will cover, and which of it is not built yet.
Recording a conversation, transcribing it on your own machine, working out who spoke and putting the result in a folder you own costs nothing. No meeting count, no trial clock, and no feature that quietly stops working on the fourteenth day.
That is not generosity, it is the only version that survives contact with the source being public: a crippled build is one somebody compiles their way around in an afternoon, so the free tier has to be the real thing or it is theatre. The command line stays in it for the same reason: listing, reading and exporting what you have recorded is a script away without paying, which is what makes the files yours rather than ours.
What a licence pays for is the part that keeps costing something to run:
the memory that accumulates across conversations, the phone, and keeping all
of it in step between your devices. Asking questions of that memory is on the
same side of the line, whether the question comes from the window, from
listen ask, or from your own agent over MCP.
Pro is not on sale yet. There is no way to buy it, no licence check in any build, and nothing has moved behind a plan. Everything in both columns below is in the app you can download today, including the memory. This page is published early so the price can be argued with before it is charged, and so nobody has to ask what the plan is.
$0
One Mac. Permanent, no caps.
$9
A month, billed yearly at $108.
A licence covers every release dated inside the period you paid for, and it goes on covering them after you stop paying. Cancel today and the version you have keeps working, for as long as the Mac it is on does. You stop getting releases dated after your last paid period; you never stop getting the ones you already bought.
That is not a promise about intentions. The licence is a signed file naming the last release date it covers, the app compares that date with the one the build was released on, and neither of them is a clock. There is no activation server to switch off, no check that phones home, and nothing that can reach an installed copy and take it away.
Fourteen days money back, no questions. Payments are handled by Polar as merchant of record, so they take the card and the tax and we never see the number.
The first hundred licences are $149, once, for the life of the app. Then that closes and does not reopen. It caps what the best hundred users are ever worth, which is a real cost and worth paying exactly once.
They shipped. This page said person profiles and scheduled recaps were future work, and that stopped being true, so it says so rather than quietly dropping the sentence.
People & Memory. A page per person and per project, built on a schedule out of the conversations you chose to keep: what they told you, what they said they would do, who they work with, and what changed. Every detail keeps the sentence, the speaker and the moment it came from, so a wrong one is visible rather than buried, and any of them can be edited, retired or deleted. It is off until you turn it on, and it runs through the model you pick: your own assistant subscription, your own key, or a model on your Mac.
The weekly review. The same machinery pointed at a week rather than a person, on the Mac and on the phone.
What has not shipped is any way to pay for them, which is the next section.
Nothing you have already recorded can be moved behind a plan later. Your recordings and transcripts are ordinary files on your own disk. There is no server that could withhold them, no database to lock, and no history to shorten.
That is not a promise about intentions, it is a description of where the files are. Your recordings and transcripts are on your own disk in ordinary formats, the build you are running now has no licence check in it, and a version that has already shipped cannot be reached and changed.
Listen is not certified anything, and no price on this page buys a certification. What it is architecturally is set out in what runs where, with deploying under HIPAA or GDPR for the questions a regulated buyer has to answer for themselves. Consent to record is separate again, is yours rather than the software's, and is covered on the page for your own line of work.