# Hey Pocket: Price, Availability & Status (2026)

Hey Pocket is a $99 screenless AI voice recorder with no required subscription and multi-model AI (GPT-5, Claude, Gemini). A real, shipping product. The status.

## Price

- **$129** (actual-sale-price, one-time; as of 2026-06-17)
- **$99 to $199** (actual-sale-price, one-time; as of 2026-01-01) · [Open Vision Engineering (Hey Pocket)](https://www.heypocket.com/) · 2026-01-01

The $99 above is the verified launch price (regular $199), a one-time purchase. The core is free with no subscription required, which is its differentiator; an optional Pocket Pro plan is $19.99 a month for speaker labels, summary styles, and unlimited Ask Pocket.

## Availability

_Status: shipping-now_

Hey Pocket is shipping with live iOS and Android apps. DEPLOY records it at commercial maturity: a real, shipping product, not vaporware. It is made by Open Vision Engineering, a Y Combinator W26 company in San Francisco.

## Status

Hey Pocket is a screenless AI voice recorder and 'thought companion': a 52-gram device that works standalone and MagSafe-attaches to the back of a phone, with dual studio microphones plus a contact microphone for calls, running multi-model cloud AI (routing across GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini) for transcription in 120+ languages, summaries, mind maps, action items, and an Ask-Pocket Q&A feature. DEPLOY places it in the genuine-cloud-AI tier. Its editorial throughline is the no-subscription-core posture, a direct contrast to subscription-required rivals like Plaud. A lineage note: CEO Akshay Narisetti previously built Omi before founding Pocket, though the two are separate companies and products.

## Compare

| Model | Pricing | Tier |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Omi](/price/omi) | $89 | verified (Open-source AI necklace) |
| [Plaud NotePin](/price/plaud-notepin) | $169 | verified (Notes pendant (subscription-augmented)) |
| [Humane AI Pin](/price/humane-ai-pin) | Discontinued | absence (The failure case) |
| [Rabbit r1](/price/rabbit-r1) | $199 | verified (AI device (pilot)) |
| [Solos AirGo Vision](/price/solos-airgo-vision) | $299-$349 | verified (Genuine-AI, audio-first) |

## Common questions

### How much is Hey Pocket?

$99 at launch (regular $199), a one-time purchase. The core is free with no subscription required; Pocket Pro is an optional $19.99/month.

### Does Hey Pocket require a subscription?

No. The core is free with no subscription required, which is its differentiator against subscription-required rivals. Pocket Pro is optional.

## How DEPLOY verified this

- [How DEPLOY tracks pricing](https://news.deploy.report/methodology/how-we-track-pricing)
- [How DEPLOY verifies deployment status](https://news.deploy.report/methodology/how-we-verify-deployment-status)

## Related reading

- [Deploy News: What is an AI wearable?](https://news.deploy.report/explainers/what-is-an-ai-wearable)
- [Deploy News: What does wearable AI do?](https://news.deploy.report/explainers/what-does-wearable-ai-do)
- [Deploy News: What is physical AI?](https://news.deploy.report/explainers/what-is-physical-ai)

## On the registry

- [Model record](https://registry.deploy.report/models/hey-pocket.md)
- [Manufacturer](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/open-vision-engineering.md)

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