A Krisp alternative for meeting recording and transcripts

First, which Krisp are you replacing?

Krisp started as a noise-cancelling app and has grown into a full meeting assistant. When people search for a Krisp alternative, they usually mean one of two things:

• Noise cancellation. Removing background noise, echo and other voices from your microphone so the people on the call hear you clearly. Alternatives here are things like NVIDIA Broadcast (for NVIDIA graphics cards) and the built-in noise suppression in Zoom, Teams and Google Meet. Hark is not one of them.
• AI meeting notes and transcripts. Recording calls, transcribing them and getting summaries and action items. This is where Hark is a real alternative.

Why people look for a Krisp alternative for notes

• Price after the trial. As of October 2026, Krisp's pricing page lists a 7-day free trial, then Core at $16 per user a month ($8 billed yearly). People who only want transcripts and notes look for something cheaper or free.
• Cloud storage. Krisp keeps meeting data in its cloud on most plans. Some people want recordings and transcripts stored only on their own computer.
• Linux. Krisp does not offer a Linux desktop app.
• Named speakers. People who meet the same colleagues and clients often want their voices recognised automatically.

Krisp in brief: a fair summary

Krisp is a voice AI app for Mac and Windows, with mobile apps and a Chrome extension. Its noise cancellation works with any calling app and is widely considered excellent. It also offers accent conversion, plus a bot-free AI note taker that records and transcribes your meetings, writes notes and action items, and can optionally record with a bot. Krisp says English transcription runs on the device, and it supports 16 languages in total.

The big advantage is having noise cancellation and notes in one tool. If you take calls from a noisy home, cafe or open office, that combination is hard to beat.

Hark vs Krisp at a glance

Krisp details from krisp.ai and its pricing page, checked October 2026.

How Hark is different

Built around the recording

Hark records your microphone and your computer's audio as separate tracks, with no bot, in any meeting app. You get a live transcript during the call and a more accurate one when it ends, all made on your computer. The recording stays with you, in a waveform player that can speed up speech without chipmunk voices, skip silence and enhance voices for easier listening. On a Mac, Hark records the microphone only for now; Windows and Linux record both sides.

It learns who people are

Hark works out who spoke from their voice. Name each voice once and Hark suggests that person in later meetings. Fix any mix-ups by marking who spoke on the timeline.

Free where it counts

Everything that runs on your computer is free forever, with no minute limits. The $12/month subscription adds Claude-written meeting notes, automatic titles, transcript proofreading and sync across up to 3 computers. For AI features, the transcript text (not the audio) is sent to Claude.

When to choose Hark

• You want meeting recordings and transcripts, not noise cancellation.
• You want them free, with no trial ending.
• You want recordings stored on your own computer.
• You use Linux, or Windows, and your meetings are in English.
• You want speakers named automatically in future meetings.

When to stay with Krisp

• You need live noise cancellation or accent conversion. Hark does neither.
• You are on a Mac and need the other side of the call recorded through headphones.
• You need transcripts in languages other than English.
• You want mobile apps or a Chrome extension.

Other Krisp alternatives

• Granola. Bot-free AI notepad for Mac and Windows that improves your own notes.
• Otter.ai. Cloud transcription with mobile apps and a bot-free desktop app.
• NVIDIA Broadcast. Free noise removal for PCs with supported NVIDIA graphics cards, if noise cancellation is all you need.

See also our guide to AI note takers without a bot and the best AI note takers.

How to switch from Krisp notes to Hark

1. Save the Krisp notes you want to keep, and download any recordings your plan lets you export.
2. Download Hark free for Windows, Mac or Linux and sign in with your email.
3. Let Hark download its speech models once (about 730 MB).
4. Import your exported recordings by dragging them into Hark or using File > Import.
5. If you keep Krisp for noise cancellation, record a short test call in Hark to check both sides come through.
6. Name the voices after your first few meetings so Hark recognises them from then on.

Recording laws vary, and some places require everyone's consent. Let people know you are recording.