Krisp Review: AI Noise Cancellation for Meetings (2026)

Krisp is an AI-powered desktop application that removes background noise, echo, and other audio distractions from your calls in real time. It works system-wide — meaning it sits between your microphone and whatever communication app you use (Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Discord, you name it) and filters out everything that isn't your voice before it reaches the other person.

But Krisp has evolved well beyond a one-trick noise cancellation tool. In 2024 and 2025, the company expanded aggressively into meeting productivity, adding AI meeting transcription, automated meeting notes and summaries, and action item extraction. Today, Krisp positions itself as an all-in-one meeting assistant that happens to have the best noise cancellation on the market as its foundation.

The origin story matters here. Krisp was founded in 2017 by Davit Baghdasaryan and Artavazd Minasyan, both with deep backgrounds in audio signal processing. The technology started as a research project at UC Berkeley and was spun out as a standalone product when the team realized that existing noise suppression — the kind built into Zoom and Teams — was mediocre at best. Their approach uses deep neural networks trained on tens of thousands of distinct noise types: barking dogs, construction, crying babies, keyboard clatter, cafe chatter, sirens, and everything else that ruins remote calls.

The result is noise cancellation that works noticeably better than anything built into your video conferencing app. Not marginally better. Dramatically better. The kind of difference where your co-worker on a call from a noisy coffee shop suddenly sounds like they are in a recording studio.

Krisp processes all audio locally on your device — nothing is sent to the cloud for noise removal. This is a critical differentiator for privacy-conscious users and organizations in regulated industries. Your voice data never leaves your machine during the noise cancellation process. For the newer meeting transcription and notes features, audio is processed in the cloud (with encryption), but the core noise cancellation remains entirely on-device.

If you have been browsing our AI tools directory looking for something to fix your audio quality on calls, Krisp is the tool that keeps appearing in every serious recommendation list, and with good reason.

AI Noise Cancellation (Bidirectional)

This is Krisp's flagship feature and the reason most people download it. Krisp removes background noise from both your microphone (so others don't hear your noise) and your speaker (so you don't hear theirs). The bidirectional approach is important — most built-in noise suppression only filters your own microphone. Krisp cleans up the entire audio experience on both ends.

The AI model recognizes and suppresses over 20,000 distinct noise types in real time with less than 10 milliseconds of latency. This includes:

• Dogs barking, cats meowing, birds chirping
• Construction noise, sirens, traffic
• Keyboard typing, mouse clicking
• Baby crying, children playing
• Cafe and restaurant chatter
• Echo and room reverb
• Air conditioning, fans, vacuum cleaners
• Music playing in the background

The processing happens on-device using your CPU or GPU. There is no cloud round-trip for noise cancellation, which means zero privacy concerns about your audio being intercepted and near-zero latency. Your voice passes through the neural network and comes out clean on the other side, while everything else gets stripped away.

Echo Cancellation

Separate from noise cancellation, Krisp eliminates acoustic echo — that annoying feedback loop where the other person's voice comes out of your speakers and gets picked back up by your microphone. This is especially common in setups without headphones (laptop speakers + built-in mic) and in echoey rooms. Krisp's echo cancellation is aggressive and effective, letting you take calls on laptop speakers without the other party hearing themselves.

AI Meeting Transcription

Krisp transcribes your meetings in real time with speaker identification. The transcription engine supports English as its primary language with strong accuracy (typically 95%+ for clear audio), and offers support for additional languages. Transcripts are time-stamped, searchable, and linked to the original audio. You can click any line in the transcript to jump to that moment in the recording.

Unlike the noise cancellation (which is local-only), transcription is processed in the cloud. Krisp encrypts audio in transit and at rest, but if your organization has strict data residency requirements, this is worth investigating before deployment.

AI Meeting Notes and Summaries

After each meeting, Krisp generates structured summaries that include key discussion topics, decisions made, and action items with assignees. The summaries are delivered within a couple of minutes of the meeting ending. You can choose between different summary formats — concise overviews for quick standups or detailed breakdowns for client calls and strategy sessions.

This feature transforms Krisp from an audio utility into a genuine meeting productivity tool. Instead of just making your calls sound better, it also captures and organizes what was said so you do not have to take manual notes.

Action Item Extraction

Krisp's AI identifies commitments, tasks, and follow-ups mentioned during the meeting and presents them as a structured action item list. Each item includes the person who committed to it (based on speaker identification) and the context of the discussion around it. This is genuinely useful for project managers and team leads who spend their days in back-to-back meetings and need to track who promised what.

Meeting Recording

Krisp records your meetings locally, storing audio (and in some cases video, depending on your setup) on your device. Recordings are organized by date and can be replayed alongside the transcript. The local-first storage approach means your recordings are not sitting on someone else's server by default, which appeals to privacy-focused users.

App-Agnostic Design

Unlike meeting assistants that only work with Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams, Krisp works with any application that uses your microphone or speakers. This includes:

• Video conferencing: Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, GoToMeeting
• Voice calls: Discord, Slack Huddles, WhatsApp Desktop, FaceTime
• Gaming: in-game voice chat on any platform
• Recording: Audacity, GarageBand, any DAW or recording software
• Streaming: OBS, Streamlabs

This universal compatibility is a major advantage. Krisp sets itself as your system's virtual microphone and speaker, so every app that uses audio automatically gets noise cancellation without any per-app configuration. If you use multiple communication tools throughout the day, this alone justifies Krisp over app-specific solutions.

Widgets and Call Stats

Krisp provides a floating widget during calls that shows real-time stats: how much noise has been removed, your talk time versus listening time, and the overall audio quality of the call. After the meeting, you get a summary of call analytics including duration, noise levels, and speaking patterns. For people who want to improve their meeting habits (talking less, listening more), these stats are quietly insightful.

Krisp's pricing has gone through several iterations. Here is the current structure:

Plan	Monthly Price	Annual Price	Noise Cancellation	Transcription	AI Notes	Key Limits
Free	$0	$0	60 min/day	Limited	Limited	Daily noise cancellation cap
Pro	$12/month	$8/month	Unlimited	Unlimited	Full summaries + action items	Individual use
Business	$15/user/month	$10/user/month	Unlimited	Unlimited	Full summaries + action items	Team management, analytics, SSO
Enterprise	Custom	Custom	Unlimited	Unlimited	Full + custom templates	Dedicated support, custom deployment

Here is what you need to know about each tier:

• Free plan: good enough to test, not enough to rely on. The 60-minute daily cap on noise cancellation is the main limitation. If your calls total under an hour a day, the free plan is genuinely usable. But most remote workers blow through that in a single morning standup plus a client call. Transcription and meeting notes are limited to a handful of meetings per week on the free tier.
• Pro at $8/month (annual) is the sweet spot. Unlimited noise cancellation, unlimited transcription, full AI meeting notes with action items. For an individual remote worker, freelancer, or consultant, this is the plan that unlocks Krisp's full value. At $96/year, it pays for itself after a single meeting where you would have otherwise missed a key action item.
• Business at $10/user/month (annual) adds team management. Centralized billing, usage analytics across the team, SSO integration, and admin controls. This is for companies deploying Krisp across their workforce, not individuals. The per-seat pricing is competitive — cheaper than most standalone meeting assistant tools.
• Enterprise is for large organizations that need custom deployment options, dedicated account management, advanced security configurations, and volume licensing. Pricing is negotiated based on seat count and requirements.

One important note: Krisp used to have a more generous free tier with more daily noise cancellation minutes. The current 60-minute cap pushes most serious users toward the Pro plan, which is clearly intentional. If you are evaluating Krisp, plan on paying $8/month unless your call volume is genuinely minimal.

Compared to dedicated meeting assistant tools like Fathom ($15/user/month for teams) or Otter.ai ($16.99/month for Pro), Krisp's Pro plan at $8/month is notably cheaper. But Krisp bundles noise cancellation with meeting notes, whereas those tools focus exclusively on transcription and summaries. Whether that bundling is an advantage depends on whether you actually need noise cancellation — if your home office is already quiet, you are paying for a feature you will not use.

Every major video conferencing app now has built-in noise suppression. Zoom has it. Google Meet has it. Microsoft Teams has it. So the obvious question is: why pay for Krisp when your meeting app already does noise cancellation for free?

The short answer: Krisp is significantly better, and the gap is not close.

Here is a detailed comparison:

Aspect	Krisp	Zoom Noise Suppression	Google Meet	Microsoft Teams
Noise types handled	20,000+	Hundreds	Hundreds	Hundreds
Bidirectional filtering	Yes (mic + speaker)	Mic only	Mic only	Mic only
Echo cancellation	Advanced AI-driven	Basic	Basic	Basic
Works across all apps	Yes (system-wide)	Zoom only	Meet only	Teams only
Processing location	100% on-device	On-device	Cloud + on-device	On-device
Aggressive noise scenarios	Excellent	Good for mild noise	Good for mild noise	Good for mild noise
Voice quality preservation	Excellent	Can muffle voice	Can muffle voice	Can muffle voice
Latency	<10ms	Varies	Varies	Varies

Where Built-In Falls Apart

Built-in noise suppression in Zoom, Meet, and Teams works fine for mild background noise — a quiet fan, occasional traffic, light keyboard typing. Where it falls apart is aggressive noise scenarios: a dog barking next to you, construction outside your window, a baby crying in the next room, or a busy coffee shop. In these situations, built-in filters either:

1. Fail to suppress the noise entirely, letting it bleed through to the other participants
2. Over-suppress and clip your voice along with the noise, making you sound robotic or muffled
3. Introduce latency as the algorithm struggles to distinguish voice from noise

Krisp handles all of these scenarios with notably better fidelity. The neural network is trained specifically to isolate human voice from everything else, and the 20,000+ noise type training set means it has encountered and learned to handle nearly every real-world audio scenario. Your voice comes through naturally — not muffled, not robotic, not clipped — while the noise vanishes.

The Bidirectional Advantage

This is the feature most people overlook. Built-in noise suppression only filters your microphone — it helps the other person not hear your noise. But it does nothing about the noise on their end coming through your speakers. Krisp filters both directions: your mic and your speaker output. So even if the other person on the call is in a noisy environment without any noise cancellation of their own, Krisp cleans up their audio before it reaches your ears.

This bidirectional approach is genuinely transformative for teams where not everyone has a quiet workspace. One Krisp user with speaker-side filtering effectively fixes audio quality for noise coming from any participant, regardless of whether those participants use Krisp themselves.

The System-Wide Advantage

Built-in noise suppression is locked to the app that provides it. Zoom's noise suppression only works in Zoom. Google Meet's only works in Meet. If you use multiple communication tools throughout the day — Zoom for client calls, Slack huddles for team check-ins, Discord for community calls, WhatsApp for quick chats — you would need each app to have good noise suppression independently.

Krisp solves this by operating at the system level. It creates virtual microphone and speaker devices that any app can use. Configure once, and every audio application on your machine benefits from the same noise cancellation. For people who switch between three or four communication tools daily, this alone justifies Krisp over relying on per-app solutions.

When Built-In Is Good Enough

To be fair, if you work from a quiet home office with a decent headset and primarily use one meeting app, the built-in noise suppression in Zoom or Teams is probably sufficient. You might not need Krisp. The tool is most valuable for people in noisy environments, people without dedicated office spaces, people who use multiple communication apps, or people whose call partners are in noisy locations.

Krisp and Otter.ai are frequently compared because they have started overlapping in features. Krisp added meeting transcription and notes; Otter.ai is primarily a transcription tool that some people consider a "meeting quality" solution. But they come from fundamentally different starting points, and understanding that difference helps you choose the right one.

Feature	Krisp	Otter.ai
Core strength	Noise cancellation + meeting notes	Transcription + collaboration
Noise cancellation	Best-in-class, system-wide	None
Echo cancellation	Yes	None
Transcription accuracy	Strong (95%+ for English)	Excellent (96%+ for English)
Real-time transcription	Yes	Yes
AI meeting summaries	Yes	Yes (paid plans)
Action item extraction	Yes	Yes (paid plans)
Mobile recording	No (desktop only)	Yes (iOS + Android)
In-person meeting recording	No	Yes
Live collaboration on transcript	No	Yes
Works across all apps	Yes (system-wide)	Zoom, Meet, Teams only
Free plan	60 min/day noise cancel, limited notes	300 min/month transcription
Paid starting price	$8/month (annual)	$16.99/month

Choose Krisp If...

• You are in a noisy environment and need noise cancellation as a primary feature
• You use multiple communication apps beyond Zoom/Meet/Teams
• You want both audio quality improvement and meeting notes in one tool
• Budget matters — Krisp Pro at $8/month is nearly half the cost of Otter.ai Pro
• You prefer on-device audio processing for privacy reasons

Choose Otter.ai If...

• Transcription accuracy is your top priority and you need the absolute best speech-to-text
• You record in-person meetings, phone calls, or lectures using your phone
• You want live collaborative editing of transcripts during meetings
• You need a mobile app for on-the-go recording
• Your environment is already quiet and noise cancellation adds no value

Can You Use Both?

Yes, and some people do. Krisp handles noise cancellation at the system level, making your audio clean, and Otter.ai handles transcription and notes on top of that clean audio. The cleaner the audio input, the better Otter.ai's transcription accuracy becomes. If you are in a noisy environment and need best-in-class transcription, running Krisp + Otter.ai together is a legitimate power-user setup. It costs more ($8 + $17 = $25/month), but for professionals where meeting accuracy directly impacts revenue (sales, consulting, legal), the combination can be worth it.

For most users though, Krisp's built-in transcription and notes are good enough that a separate tool is unnecessary. The transcription quality gap between Krisp and Otter.ai is narrow, and Krisp's integrated experience (noise cancellation + transcription + notes in one app) is more convenient than juggling two tools.

For more meeting productivity tools, explore our AI tools directory or check out our Fathom review for another strong option in this space.

What Krisp Gets Right

• Noise cancellation is genuinely best-in-class. No built-in solution and no competitor matches Krisp's ability to strip background noise while preserving natural voice quality. If you have ever been embarrassed by your dog barking on a client call, Krisp eliminates that problem entirely.
• System-wide compatibility is a huge advantage. One app, one configuration, and every communication tool on your machine gets noise cancellation. No per-app setup, no worrying about whether your niche video conferencing tool supports noise suppression.
• On-device processing for noise cancellation. Your audio never leaves your machine for the core noise cancellation feature. This matters for privacy, for latency, and for working in environments with poor internet connectivity. The noise cancellation works even if your internet drops momentarily.
• Bidirectional filtering is underrated. Cleaning up both your microphone and your speaker output means you get a better experience even when the other person on the call is in a noisy environment. This is a feature most people do not realize they need until they experience it.
• The meeting notes expansion is solid. Krisp's transcription, AI summaries, and action item extraction have matured quickly. For users who need both audio quality and meeting notes, having them in a single $8/month tool is excellent value.
• Competitive pricing. At $8/month for the Pro plan (annual), Krisp undercuts most dedicated meeting assistant tools while offering noise cancellation as a bonus. It is one of the better value propositions in the AI meeting tools space.

Where Krisp Falls Short

• The free tier is restrictive. 60 minutes per day of noise cancellation pushes most users toward paying quickly. If you have more than one or two calls a day, you will hit the cap. The old free tier was more generous, and the reduction stings.
• CPU usage can be noticeable. Real-time neural network inference on every audio frame is computationally expensive. On older machines or laptops with limited resources, Krisp can cause noticeable CPU spikes, especially during long calls. Most modern machines (2020+) handle it fine, but if you are running a resource-intensive workflow alongside calls, monitor your performance.
• Desktop only — no mobile app. Krisp does not have a mobile application. If you take calls on your phone or need to record in-person meetings, Krisp cannot help. This is a meaningful gap compared to Otter.ai, which has robust iOS and Android apps.
• Transcription is cloud-based. While noise cancellation is fully on-device, the transcription and meeting notes features send audio to Krisp's servers for processing. This hybrid approach may concern users who chose Krisp specifically for its privacy-first positioning.
• Meeting notes are newer and less mature. Compared to dedicated tools like Fathom or Fireflies that have spent years refining their meeting intelligence, Krisp's notes and summaries are good but not quite at the same level of depth and customization. The feature set is catching up quickly, but power users may notice the gap.
• Occasional voice distortion in extreme noise. In very loud environments (think loud construction directly outside your window), Krisp occasionally introduces subtle artifacts or slight robotic tones to your voice. It still sounds dramatically better than without Krisp, but perfectionists may notice. These edge cases have improved significantly with each update.
• Windows and Mac only. No Linux support. If you are a developer on a Linux workstation, Krisp is not available for you. This rules out a meaningful segment of the remote technical workforce.

Perfect For

Remote workers in noisy environments are Krisp's core audience. If you work from a co-working space, a coffee shop, a shared apartment, or anywhere that is not a soundproofed home office, Krisp is close to essential. The difference between a call with Krisp and without it in a noisy environment is dramatic enough that colleagues will comment on it.

Sales teams and customer-facing professionals who cannot afford audio quality issues during client calls, demos, and discovery sessions. A barking dog during a sales pitch is not just embarrassing — it is distracting and costs you credibility. Krisp eliminates that risk entirely. The added meeting notes and action item tracking make it a genuine productivity tool for revenue teams, complementing tools in our AI tools directory.

Freelancers and consultants who take calls from various locations — home, cafes, client offices, airports. Krisp's system-wide approach means your audio is always clean regardless of where you are or what app you are using. At $8/month, it is a trivial business expense that meaningfully improves your professional presence.

Contact center and support teams where agents work from home in potentially noisy environments. Krisp's Business plan with centralized management makes it easy to deploy across a team and ensure consistent audio quality on every customer call.

Content creators and streamers who record audio or stream live. Krisp's system-wide noise cancellation works with OBS, streaming software, and recording tools. It is a cheaper and simpler alternative to buying a high-end microphone with built-in noise rejection for many use cases.

Not Ideal For

People with quiet home offices and good equipment. If you already have a dedicated, quiet workspace and a decent headset or microphone, Krisp's noise cancellation may not add much value for you. The meeting notes features are useful, but you can get those from free tools like Fathom without paying for noise cancellation you do not need.

Linux users. Krisp only supports Windows and macOS. There is no Linux client, and no web-based alternative that provides the same system-wide noise cancellation. Linux users will need to rely on PulseAudio noise suppression plugins or app-specific solutions.

Mobile-first communicators. If most of your calls happen on your phone rather than your computer, Krisp cannot help. It is a desktop-only application. Otter.ai or your phone's built-in noise suppression are better options for mobile calling.

Teams needing advanced meeting intelligence. If your primary need is deep conversation analytics — talk time ratios, sentiment tracking, coaching insights, deal intelligence — Krisp's meeting notes are functional but basic compared to specialized platforms like Gong, Chorus, or even Fireflies. Those tools cost more but provide enterprise-grade meeting analytics that Krisp does not attempt to match.

Organizations with strict cloud-processing restrictions. While Krisp's noise cancellation is on-device, the meeting transcription and notes features process audio in the cloud. Organizations in healthcare or government with zero-cloud-processing mandates should verify compliance before deploying the full feature set.

Understanding how Krisp works helps explain why it outperforms built-in noise suppression and whether it is right for your setup.

The Virtual Device Approach

When you install Krisp, it creates two virtual audio devices on your system: Krisp Microphone and Krisp Speaker. You set these as your default audio devices in your communication apps (or system-wide). Audio from your physical microphone flows through Krisp's neural network before reaching the app, and audio from the app flows through Krisp's processing before reaching your physical speakers or headphones.

This virtual device approach is what makes Krisp app-agnostic. Any application that uses standard audio input/output can benefit from Krisp without needing a dedicated integration or plugin. You do not need to configure anything per-app — just set Krisp as your audio device once and every app uses it automatically.

Deep Neural Network Architecture

Krisp's noise cancellation is powered by a deep neural network trained on a massive dataset of voice recordings mixed with tens of thousands of distinct noise types. The model learns to separate human voice from everything else — not by recognizing specific noises (which would fail on novel sounds) but by understanding the fundamental acoustic properties of human speech and filtering out everything that does not match those properties.

The model runs inference on small audio frames (a few milliseconds each) in real time. For each frame, it predicts which parts of the audio signal are voice and which are noise, then passes through only the voice component. This happens continuously, frame by frame, with less than 10 milliseconds of added latency — imperceptible to the human ear.

On-Device Processing

The entire noise cancellation pipeline runs locally on your CPU. Krisp does not send audio to the cloud for processing, which means:

• No privacy concerns: Your audio data never leaves your machine
• No internet dependency: Noise cancellation works even if your internet drops
• Minimal latency: No network round-trip means near-zero delay
• Consistent performance: Not affected by server load or network congestion

The trade-off is CPU usage. Running a neural network on every audio frame takes processing power. On modern machines (Apple Silicon Macs, recent Intel/AMD processors), the overhead is typically 3-5% CPU usage during calls. On older machines or underpowered laptops, it can be higher. Krisp includes a performance mode option that reduces quality slightly to lower CPU usage on constrained hardware.

How the Meeting Notes Pipeline Works

The newer transcription and meeting notes features use a different architecture. When you enable meeting transcription, Krisp captures the (already noise-cancelled) audio and sends it to their cloud servers for speech-to-text processing. The transcription engine uses a separate AI model optimized for speech recognition with speaker diarization (identifying who said what).

After transcription, another AI model processes the full transcript to generate structured summaries, extract action items, identify key decisions, and organize the meeting content. This multi-model pipeline is why summaries take a minute or two after the meeting ends rather than appearing instantly — the audio needs to be fully transcribed before summarization can run.

The cloud processing for transcription is encrypted end-to-end, but it does mean your meeting audio passes through Krisp's servers. This is the same approach used by Otter.ai, Fathom, Fireflies, and every other meeting transcription service — on-device transcription at Krisp's accuracy level is not yet practical for most consumer hardware.

Setting up Krisp takes about three minutes. Here is the fastest path to clean audio on your next call:

1. Download Krisp from krisp.ai. The app is available for Windows and macOS. Create a free account during installation — no credit card required. The free plan gives you 60 minutes per day of noise cancellation to test before committing to a paid plan.
2. Install and grant audio permissions. Krisp needs permission to access your microphone and speakers to create its virtual audio devices. On macOS, you will see a system prompt to allow this. On Windows, it typically configures automatically. After installation, you will see "Krisp Microphone" and "Krisp Speaker" appear as audio devices in your system settings.
3. Set Krisp as your audio device. Open your primary meeting app (Zoom, Teams, Meet, etc.) and go to audio settings. Set the microphone to "Krisp Microphone" and the speaker to "Krisp Speaker." Alternatively, set Krisp as your system default audio devices and every app will use it automatically.
4. Toggle noise cancellation on. Open the Krisp app. You will see toggles for microphone noise cancellation and speaker noise cancellation. Turn both on. The app shows a real-time visualization of noise being removed — test it by clapping or making noise near your mic and watching it get filtered.
5. Enable meeting transcription (optional). If you want meeting notes and summaries, enable the transcription feature in Krisp's settings. This will start capturing and transcribing your meetings automatically. Summaries and action items appear in the Krisp dashboard after each meeting ends.
6. Run your first call. Join a meeting normally. Krisp works silently in the background — the other participants will not see a bot joining the call (unlike meeting assistants like Fathom or Otter.ai that add a visible bot participant). The only difference they will notice is that your audio sounds dramatically cleaner.
7. Review your meeting notes. After the call, open the Krisp dashboard to see the transcript, AI summary, and extracted action items. Review the quality to decide whether the transcription meets your needs or if you want a dedicated tool for notes alongside Krisp for noise cancellation.

Pro tip: Test Krisp on an internal team call first rather than a client-facing meeting. This lets you verify the audio quality and get comfortable with the app's behavior before using it in high-stakes situations. Ask a colleague to confirm that your audio sounds clean and natural.

Once you have the basics running, these tips will help you extract maximum value from Krisp:

Optimize CPU Performance

If you notice your machine running hot during long calls, check Krisp's settings for a performance/quality slider. Reducing the noise cancellation intensity slightly (from "maximum" to "balanced") can cut CPU usage meaningfully while still providing excellent noise removal. The difference between max and balanced is only noticeable in extremely noisy environments.

Use Krisp with a Budget Microphone

One of Krisp's underappreciated benefits is that it makes cheap microphones sound professional. If you are using your laptop's built-in mic or a $20 headset, Krisp's noise cancellation and voice processing clean up the audio to a degree that approximates a much more expensive setup. This does not mean you should avoid buying a decent mic — but if budget is a constraint, Krisp + a basic headset often outperforms an expensive microphone in a noisy room without Krisp.

Combine with Dedicated Meeting Notes Tools

If Krisp's built-in transcription does not meet your needs, you can run Krisp for noise cancellation alongside a dedicated tool like Fathom or Otter.ai for meeting notes. The clean audio from Krisp actually improves transcription accuracy in the downstream tool. Set Krisp as your system audio device, and the meeting notes tool will receive cleaner input than it would from your raw microphone.

Disable When Not Needed

Krisp uses CPU continuously while active. If you are not on a call, toggle off noise cancellation to reclaim those resources. Krisp's floating widget makes this a single click. Some users set up keyboard shortcuts (via their OS or tools like Alfred/Raycast) to toggle Krisp on and off quickly before and after calls.

Configure Per-App If Needed

While Krisp's system-wide approach is usually ideal, some users prefer noise cancellation only on specific apps. You can achieve this by setting Krisp as the audio device only in specific applications rather than as the system default. This way, casual Discord calls use your raw mic while client Zoom calls go through Krisp.

Review Call Stats Regularly

Krisp's call analytics show your talk-to-listen ratio over time. If you are consistently talking more than 60% of the time in meetings, that is a signal to practice listening more and asking better questions. It is a small feature, but the data is surprisingly useful for improving meeting habits.

Yes, if you take calls from noisy environments. That is the simplest answer. If background noise is a regular problem in your work life — whether from your environment or the environments of people you call with — Krisp is the best solution available and $8/month is a trivial price to pay for consistently professional audio quality.

The noise cancellation alone justifies the price. Krisp's AI noise removal is demonstrably superior to what is built into Zoom, Teams, or Meet. The bidirectional filtering (cleaning up both your mic and your speaker) and system-wide compatibility (working across every app, not just one) are genuine differentiators that no built-in solution matches.

The meeting notes are a solid bonus, not a primary draw. Krisp's transcription, summaries, and action items have improved significantly and are now genuinely useful. But if meeting notes are your primary need and noise cancellation is secondary, dedicated tools like Fathom (which offers unlimited free transcription and summaries) or Otter.ai (which has better transcription accuracy and mobile support) are stronger choices in that specific category.

The combination of both is what makes Krisp unique. No other single tool gives you best-in-class noise cancellation plus competent meeting transcription and notes. If you need both, Krisp at $8/month is dramatically cheaper than buying noise cancellation hardware (a $200+ microphone with built-in noise rejection) plus a separate meeting assistant subscription ($15-20/month).

For freelancers, remote workers, sales professionals, and anyone who takes calls outside of a quiet dedicated office, Krisp is one of those rare tools that delivers more value than it costs — and you will notice the difference on your very first call.

Browse more tools like Krisp in our AI tools directory, or explore solutions for specific workflows in our automation guides.