Krisp

Krisp made its name with AI-powered noise cancellation before expanding into meeting transcription and notes. That origin still matters, because noise cancellation remains Krisp’s strongest feature and it is genuinely excellent. The technology filters out background noise in real time and works bidirectionally, so both you and your meeting participants hear cleaner audio. For remote workers in coffee shops, co-working spaces, or homes with unpredictable noise, Krisp’s noise cancellation is transformative.

The meeting-notes side arrived later, but it has grown well past a bolt-on. Krisp now does real-time transcription and summaries in more than 16 languages, with English transcription handled on-device and other languages processed server-side. An “Ask Krisp” AI chat lets you query your meeting history in plain language, and accent conversion can neutralize a speaker’s accent live during a call. Independent 2026 reviews have noticed the shift, describing Krisp as having quietly become a full AI meeting assistant rather than a noise tool with transcription stapled on. It still works at the system audio level, so no bot joins your call and it stays compatible with any meeting platform.

Krisp is no longer a product that does one thing exceptionally well and a few others adequately. Noise cancellation is still the headline, but the gap between Krisp and dedicated meeting assistants has narrowed. Summaries remain on the shallow side, and accuracy still trails specialist transcription tools. If you need clean audio and want capable transcription, AI chat, and CRM sync bundled in, Krisp now offers a genuinely broad package.

Key Features

Krisp’s AI noise cancellation works in real time, removing background noise for both incoming and outgoing audio, and it runs on-device without sending audio to servers. Meeting transcription captures conversations with speaker identification and now spans 16+ languages, with on-device English processing and server-based handling for other languages. Krisp generates summaries and action items after meetings, and “Ask Krisp” provides natural-language Q&A across your transcripts, summaries, and action items.

Accent conversion is one of Krisp’s most distinctive additions: it can neutralize a speaker’s accent in real time for several English accent groups, including Latin American, Indian, and Filipino English, plus a separate African accent pack covering accents such as South African, Ugandan, Kenyan, and Nigerian English. The feature is tiered by plan.

In February 2026 Krisp shipped an MCP server, letting you connect meeting data (transcripts, summaries, action items, calendar) to AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, and VS Code through the Model Context Protocol. The system-level audio approach means Krisp still works with any meeting platform: Zoom, Teams, Meet, phone calls, or any other audio source.

Pricing

Krisp’s pricing page now leads with a 7-day free trial of all premium features, with no credit card required, and de-emphasizes the permanent free plan. That free-forever plan still exists for individuals, but it takes effort to find: it covers 60 minutes a day of noise cancellation, unlimited transcription and recording, two AI notes a day, a 7-day meeting history, and a 750-word custom vocabulary.

The paid entry tier, formerly called Pro, is now named Core at $8 per month billed annually or $16 per month billed monthly. Core includes unlimited noise cancellation, unlimited transcription, unlimited AI notes and action items, one hour a day of accent conversion, 10GB of storage, and integrations including Slack, Teams, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Affinity, Zapier, and the MCP server. A new Advanced tier sits above it at $15 per month annual ($30 monthly), adding more accent conversion (four hours a day speaker-side, unlimited listener-side), 60GB of storage, and Salesforce and ConnectWise integrations. Enterprise is custom-priced and now explicitly offers on-device “Private transcription,” SSO and SCIM, HIPAA support, and unlimited storage.

The pricing is reasonable given that you get noise cancellation, multilingual notes, and CRM sync in one tool. If you do not also need the noise cancellation, the transcription accuracy alone may not justify the cost over a dedicated transcription tool.

Privacy & Security

Krisp has a stronger privacy posture than most cloud-based alternatives. Noise cancellation processes entirely on-device; audio is cleaned locally and never sent to servers. English transcription also runs on-device, though summaries and transcription in other languages are processed server-side, and some AI features involve cloud communication. The Enterprise plan adds an on-device “Private transcription” option along with SSO, SCIM, and HIPAA support. Krisp has published transparency reports about its data handling. For users who value privacy, Krisp’s hybrid approach is a meaningful step above fully cloud-based competitors, though it falls short of a fully on-device assistant.

Best For

Krisp is the obvious choice for professionals who regularly take calls from noisy environments, and the AI meeting notes are now a genuine draw rather than an afterthought. Remote workers, traveling consultants, and anyone in an open-plan office will appreciate the noise cancellation, and multilingual teams benefit from transcription and summaries in 16+ languages. Sales teams gain from the native HubSpot, Pipedrive, Affinity, and (on higher tiers) Salesforce integrations. It is less suited for users who primarily need best-in-class transcription accuracy or deep AI analysis, where summaries can feel thin. Krisp offers iOS and Android apps with recording, transcription, and AI notes, though the signature noise cancellation feature is still not available on mobile.

Worth noting for context: Krisp has pushed well beyond the meeting-assistant space, launching a Voice AI Platform for call centers in 2025 (noise cancellation, accent conversion, speech-to-speech translation, and AI agent assist) and a voice-isolation model, VIVA, aimed at AI voice agents. That broader bet does not change the meeting-assistant experience, but it explains the company’s accelerating investment in real-time voice features.

How Krisp Compares to Hedy

Krisp and Hedy share important design principles: both process audio on-device, and both work without a meeting bot. Krisp’s noise cancellation is a unique feature that Hedy does not replicate, and Krisp has narrowed the meeting-assistant gap considerably with multilingual notes, “Ask Krisp” chat, an MCP server, and CRM integrations.

The durable difference is where the AI runs. Hedy keeps the entire pipeline on-device: transcription, summaries, and real-time coaching all happen locally, with no server round-trip for any language. Krisp processes English transcription on-device but sends other languages and summary generation to its servers, so its on-device guarantee is partial. Hedy’s AI analysis also goes deeper than Krisp’s summaries, with real-time coaching, knowledge connections across meetings, and configurable session types, whereas Krisp’s summaries stay comparatively shallow. Both run on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android; Hedy adds web, and Krisp’s mobile apps lack the noise cancellation feature. If your primary problem is noisy environments, Krisp solves that uniquely and now does much more besides. If end-to-end on-device privacy and deeper meeting intelligence matter most, Hedy holds the edge.