diff --git a/src/public/app/widgets/type_widgets/options/ai_settings.ts b/src/public/app/widgets/type_widgets/options/ai_settings.ts
index 749c54a6e..fd666958b 100644
--- a/src/public/app/widgets/type_widgets/options/ai_settings.ts
+++ b/src/public/app/widgets/type_widgets/options/ai_settings.ts
@@ -201,7 +201,10 @@ export default class AiSettingsWidget extends OptionsWidget {
                             <div><strong>${t("ai_llm.queued_notes")}:</strong> <span class="embedding-queued-notes">-</span></div>
                             <div><strong>${t("ai_llm.failed_notes")}:</strong> <span class="embedding-failed-notes">-</span></div>
                             <div><strong>${t("ai_llm.last_processed")}:</strong> <span class="embedding-last-processed">-</span></div>
-                            <div class="progress mt-2" style="height: 10px;">
+                            <div class="mt-2">
+                                <strong>${t("ai_llm.progress")}:</strong> <span class="embedding-status-text">-</span>
+                            </div>
+                            <div class="progress mt-1" style="height: 10px;">
                                 <div class="progress-bar embedding-progress" role="progressbar" style="width: 0%;"
                                     aria-valuenow="0" aria-valuemin="0" aria-valuemax="100">0%</div>
                             </div>
@@ -456,6 +459,30 @@ export default class AiSettingsWidget extends OptionsWidget {
                 $progressBar.css('width', `${stats.percentComplete}%`);
                 $progressBar.attr('aria-valuenow', stats.percentComplete.toString());
                 $progressBar.text(`${stats.percentComplete}%`);
+
+                // Update status text based on state
+                const $statusText = this.$widget.find('.embedding-status-text');
+                if (stats.queuedNotesCount > 0) {
+                    $statusText.text(t("ai_llm.processing", { percentage: stats.percentComplete }));
+                } else if (stats.percentComplete < 100) {
+                    $statusText.text(t("ai_llm.incomplete", { percentage: stats.percentComplete }));
+                } else {
+                    $statusText.text(t("ai_llm.complete"));
+                }
+
+                // Change progress bar color based on state
+                if (stats.queuedNotesCount > 0) {
+                    // Processing in progress - use animated progress bar
+                    $progressBar.addClass('progress-bar-striped progress-bar-animated bg-info');
+                    $progressBar.removeClass('bg-success');
+                } else if (stats.percentComplete < 100) {
+                    // Incomplete - use standard progress bar
+                    $progressBar.removeClass('progress-bar-striped progress-bar-animated bg-info bg-success');
+                } else {
+                    // Complete - show success color
+                    $progressBar.removeClass('progress-bar-striped progress-bar-animated bg-info');
+                    $progressBar.addClass('bg-success');
+                }
             }
         } catch (error) {
             console.error("Error fetching embedding stats:", error);
diff --git a/src/public/translations/en/translation.json b/src/public/translations/en/translation.json
index 446fa055b..25ab6263d 100644
--- a/src/public/translations/en/translation.json
+++ b/src/public/translations/en/translation.json
@@ -1174,6 +1174,10 @@
     "failed_notes": "Failed Notes",
     "last_processed": "Last Processed",
     "never": "Never",
+    "progress": "Progress",
+    "processing": "Processing ({{percentage}}%)",
+    "incomplete": "Incomplete ({{percentage}}%)",
+    "complete": "Complete (100%)",
     "refresh_stats": "Refresh Stats",
     "refreshing": "Refreshing...",
     "stats_error": "Error fetching embedding statistics",
diff --git a/src/services/llm/embeddings/vector_store.ts b/src/services/llm/embeddings/vector_store.ts
index 568fedbfa..3f17c0227 100644
--- a/src/services/llm/embeddings/vector_store.ts
+++ b/src/services/llm/embeddings/vector_store.ts
@@ -496,13 +496,32 @@ export async function getEmbeddingStats() {
         "SELECT utcDateCreated FROM note_embeddings ORDER BY utcDateCreated DESC LIMIT 1"
     ) as string | null || null;
 
+    // Calculate the actual completion percentage
+    // When reprocessing, we need to consider notes in the queue as not completed yet
+    // We calculate the percentage of notes that are embedded and NOT in the queue
+
+    // First, get the count of notes that are both in the embeddings table and queue
+    const notesInQueueWithEmbeddings = await sql.getValue(`
+        SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT eq.noteId)
+        FROM embedding_queue eq
+        JOIN note_embeddings ne ON eq.noteId = ne.noteId
+    `) as number;
+
+    // The number of notes with valid, up-to-date embeddings
+    const upToDateEmbeddings = embeddedNotesCount - notesInQueueWithEmbeddings;
+
+    // Calculate the percentage of notes that are properly embedded
+    const percentComplete = totalNotesCount > 0
+        ? Math.round((upToDateEmbeddings / totalNotesCount) * 100)
+        : 0;
+
     return {
         totalNotesCount,
         embeddedNotesCount,
         queuedNotesCount,
         failedNotesCount,
         lastProcessedDate,
-        percentComplete: totalNotesCount > 0 ? Math.round((embeddedNotesCount / totalNotesCount) * 100) : 0
+        percentComplete: Math.max(0, Math.min(100, percentComplete)) // Ensure between 0-100
     };
 }