Every plan includes studio hours — wall-clock time your engineer is live and working with you. The meter pauses when you step away, and hours past your allowance are metered at a fixed rate. No tokens, no talk-seconds, nothing you have to think about mid-take.
Trial
Free
14 days · no card · No obligation
Creator
$12/mo
6 studio hours included · Cancel any time
Pro
$29/mo
25 studio hours included · Cancel any time
Prefer to pay only when you record? Pay-as-you-go runs $3.00 per studio hour with no subscription. Cancel any time — cancellation takes effect on your next renewal date, and your plan stays live with its remaining studio hours until then. No partial-month refunds.
The clock runs while your engineer is live and engaged with you — in conversation or working the session. A long quiet tracking pass still counts as studio time, because the engineer is on the desk. Walk away and the meter pauses; come back and it picks up where it left off.
You will never see a token count or a talk-second in Jude. The app shows one number: hours left this month.
Counts when you are working
Session live and engaged — talking, tracking, or running takes.
Pauses when you step away
A few minutes with nobody using the engineer and the meter stops. Leaving the app open costs you nothing.
Resumes without ceremony
Speak again and your engineer is there — no reconnecting, no second introduction.
| Plan | Price | Studio hours | Overage / hr | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trial | Free, 14 days | 0.5, hard cap | — | Proving the loop in your room |
| Creator | $12/mo | 6 | $2.00 | Weekend tracking, one room |
| Pro | $29/mo | 25 | $1.50 | Recording most days |
| Pay-as-you-go | No subscription | 0 | $3.00 | Occasional sessions |
A Mac (Apple silicon at beta), a DAW that accepts a compatible Mackie control surface or Reaper-compatible OSC (others coming), and headphones — monitoring the engineer's voice on headphones keeps it out of the talkback mic. Push-to-talk mode also available.
No. Jude creates its own virtual ports and appears as a control surface. Logic finds it at launch; Reaper and Cubase config takes seconds.
No card. Registration only — an account is created so your settings, engineer and studio-hour balance follow you. Trial accounts do not automatically convert to paid.
Sessions keep working and additional hours are metered at your plan's rate. You can also cap overage in Account if you would rather be stopped than billed.
Your music never leaves your machine — Jude drives the DAW, it does not capture your tracks. Only talkback speech is streamed to the voice model, for the length of the conversation.
Your engineer is live AI, and it costs us money every minute it's on the desk — so Jude can't be a one-time purchase. The monthly fee covers a normal month of tracking; record more and the extra hours meter at a flat rate. Only record occasionally? Skip the subscription and pay $3.00 a studio hour.
Yes, from Account — no email, no phone call. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, on your next renewal date: you keep your plan and its remaining studio hours until that date, and you are not billed again. Months already paid are not refunded pro rata.
Its coming. The audio and MIDI layers are based on portable standards for exactly this reason. Sign up and say which DAW you use — it helps us order the work.