Krisp Review: What It's Good For, Pricing, Alternatives (2026)

Krisp is a small desktop app for Mac and Windows that sits between your microphone, your speakers, and whatever calling app you use, and removes background noise in both directions. Your dog, the coffee shop, the neighbor's leaf blower, and the other person's echoing conference room all get stripped out. It works with Zoom, Teams, Meet, Webex, Slack huddles, softphones, and anything else that uses a microphone, because it presents itself as a virtual audio device.

Over the last few years Krisp has grown into a meeting assistant. Because it already hears both sides of the call, it can transcribe and summarize any meeting without sending a bot into the room, which is its distinctive angle: notes, action items, and a recording from a call on any platform, with nothing visible to the other participants. It also offers accent conversion, which reshapes a speaker's accent in real time and grew out of Krisp's call-center business, and more recently live interpretation across languages; check the vendor's current documentation for availability.

The invisibility that makes the notes convenient is also the ethical and legal catch. Nobody on the call sees a recorder, so the responsibility to announce it falls entirely on you, and in many places the law requires it. The noise cancellation, meanwhile, is close to unarguable: it is why people install Krisp and keep paying for it.

Best for

Anyone who takes calls from a noisy home, office, or travel setting
Customer service and sales reps on softphones that have no built-in noise removal
Recruiters and consultants who want notes from calls on many platforms without a bot
Non-native English speakers, or teams serving them, who want to try accent conversion
People who dislike meeting bots and still want a transcript

Not ideal for

Recording other people without telling them; consent rules apply whether or not a bot is visible
Teams that want a shared, searchable meeting library with CRM automation; Fireflies, tl;dv, or Read AI do more there
Mobile-first workers, since the core product is a desktop app

Key features

Noise and voice cancellationRemoves background noise and, separately, other people's voices near you, from both your microphone and incoming audio. Processing runs on your device. Quality on a busy street or with a barking dog is excellent; a very loud environment can still leave your voice sounding slightly processed.

Bot-free meeting notesTranscribes and summarizes calls from any app, with action items and a recording option, without joining as a participant. Notes can be shared to email, Slack, Notion, and other tools. Summaries are competent on structured calls and looser on casual ones.

Accent conversionReshapes a speaker's accent toward a target accent in real time while keeping the voice. Built for contact centers, now offered to individuals. It can sound slightly unnatural and raises fairness questions if imposed rather than chosen; treat it as an optional aid.

Works with any appAs a virtual microphone and speaker, Krisp covers Zoom, Teams, Meet, Webex, Slack huddles, Discord, softphones, and recording software. That breadth is why it fits call centers and freelancers alike.

Team and call-center controlsBusiness plans add central management, usage reporting, and deployment across a team; a separate SDK and call-center product embed the same technology into other vendors' platforms.

Pricing

A free tier with a daily cap on noise-cancellation minutes and limited AI notes; a Pro plan for individuals with unlimited noise cancellation and full meeting notes; a Business plan for teams with central management and billing; and separate enterprise and call-center offerings, including an SDK for platform vendors.

Daily free minutes and note allowances have changed several times, as of mid-2026; check the vendor's current documentation. Confirm how transcripts are processed and retained before using notes on sensitive calls.

Pricing changes often. Confirm current plans on the vendor's site before you buy.

Pros and cons

Pros

Noise cancellation that works on every app, including the ones with no built-in filter
Meeting notes without a visible bot, useful on platforms that bots cannot join
On-device audio processing for the noise features
Lightweight and set-and-forget once the audio devices are configured

Cons

Invisible recording puts the entire consent burden on you, which is easy to get wrong
Virtual audio device setup confuses some users; a wrong device selection leaves you muted or unfiltered
Uses CPU continuously during calls, noticeable on older laptops
Note-taking features trail dedicated meeting assistants on search, sharing, and integrations
Accent conversion can sound artificial and is a sensitive thing to require of anyone

How people use Krisp at work

Customer service reps: clean audio on a softphone

Set Krisp as the microphone and speaker in the softphone app, leave noise and voice cancellation on, and the customer hears you and only you. Ask your supervisor before enabling notes or recording; contact-center calls usually have their own consent and retention rules.

Recruiters: notes from screens on any platform

Candidates pick Zoom, Meet, Teams, or a phone call; Krisp captures all of them. Announce that you are taking AI notes at the start, then use the summary to fill the scorecard while checking it against the transcript for exact wording.

Consultants: client calls from anywhere

Take a client call from an airport lounge with the noise stripped out, and use the notes to draft the follow-up email. Tell the client the call is being transcribed; if they decline, switch notes off and keep noise cancellation.

IT support specialists: fewer complaints about audio

Deploy Krisp to a support team through the Business plan so callers can hear agents in an open office. Document the recommended device settings so tickets about muted microphones go away.

Getting started

Install the desktop app, then in your meeting app select Krisp Microphone and Krisp Speaker as the audio devices; test with a colleague while running a faucet or playing music.
Leave meeting notes off for the first week and get comfortable with the audio side.
Before enabling notes, write the sentence you will say at the start of calls and check consent law where you and your callers are.
Turn on notes for internal meetings first, read the summaries against the transcript, and decide what to trust.
Check the free tier's daily minutes against your call load; heavy users hit the cap quickly.

Alternatives to Krisp

Otter.ai

Meeting transcription and summaries that follow you into Zoom, Teams, and Meet.

Fireflies.ai

A meeting note-taker with deep integrations, search across calls, and an AI assistant.

Read AI

Meeting notes plus engagement analytics, with search across meetings, email, and chat.

Zoom AI Companion

The meeting notetaker and assistant already built into your paid Zoom account

Frequently asked questions

Does Krisp record my calls?

Only if you turn on meeting notes or recording. Noise cancellation on its own processes audio on your device and stores nothing. When notes are on, transcripts and recordings are stored in your Krisp account and summaries are generated in the cloud; check the vendor's current documentation for processing and retention details.

Is it legal to use Krisp's meeting notes without telling people?

In many US states and many countries, recording or transcribing a call requires the consent of everyone on it, and the absence of a visible bot does not change that. Announce it every time. For calls involving health, legal, or HR matters, follow your organization's policy and do not rely on a personal account.

Krisp or the built-in noise suppression in Zoom and Teams?

Zoom, Teams, and Meet have improved their own suppression, and for many people it is enough. Krisp still wins on tough environments, on removing other voices, on incoming audio from the other side, and on apps with no built-in filter at all, such as softphones and some browser tools.

Does accent conversion work?

It reduces the strength of an accent while keeping the speaker's voice, and it is convincing enough that call centers deploy it. Expect an occasional artificial edge, and think carefully about the message it sends if you require it of staff rather than offering it.

Independent review. Pricing is described in words because plans change often; check the vendor's site.