OpenPlaud is now Riffado.

Not a buyout. Not an acquisition. Not a fork.

Nobody bought us. Nobody acquired us. The project did not change hands, the source did not fork, and the license is still AGPL-3.0. The legal entity behind Riffado is the same as the legal entity behind OpenPlaud yesterday. If anyone tells you otherwise, they're wrong.

Why the name

"OpenPlaud" tied the project to one vendor. Plaud Note is the device family we support today and that isn't changing — sync, transcription, and everything else continues to work exactly the way it did yesterday. But the roadmap has always been broader than one recorder, and every conversation about it started with the same question: "is this only for Plaud?" The old name kept boxing us in. Riffado is a name we can grow into without explaining a contradiction.

We're giving up the "Open" in the wordmark, not in the source. The code is still AGPL-3.0 on GitHub; the badge stays where it matters. We just stopped putting it in the name.

Nothing about your account changes

• Your hosted account, recordings, transcripts, summaries, and settings are exactly where you left them.
• Same prices. Same free tier. No new gates.
• Same self-host install command. Same Docker stack. Same environment variables.
• Same people building it. Same governance. Same maintainers.

Your API tokens still work

Tokens that start with op_ keep authenticating. If we ever issue new-format tokens, the old ones stay valid. You don't need to rotate anything in n8n, Zapier, your scripts, or anywhere else you've pasted a key.

For self-hosters

The repo moved to github.com/riffado/riffado; GitHub redirects the old URL automatically. No env vars renamed, no Docker images renamed, no migration to run. Existing instances need no action.

If anything broke for you

Write to [email protected] and I'll fix it.