Krisp alternatives in 2026: how to pick your next notetaker
The best Krisp alternative depends on why you're leaving in the first place. If you need transcripts you don't have to clean up, choose Wispr Notetaker. If you want the most generous free plan or the best-reviewed support, Fathom leads both. Otter is the closest match on price, Scribbl is the simplest bot-free option for Google Meet, and Granola is a strong bot-free choice across desktop and mobile.
Krisp is really two products: noise cancellation and an AI meeting assistant. The picks below replace the meeting assistant. However, if real-time noise cancellation in your meetings is your top priority, we'll give our honest opinion: Krisp remains one of your strongest choices.
Krisp is far from a poor product: its G2 reviewers rate it 4.7 out of 5 across more than 1,600 reviews. Still, certain complaints have grown into patterns within its reviews, all of which can play a part in your search for an alternative.
Krisp no longer has a free plan
Krisp used to offer a free plan with a daily allowance. New users now get a seven-day trial, and Krisp's terms say access ends when the trial does unless you subscribe. There is no free tier to fall back to. One longtime user on Capterra called the change a "bait-and-switch," and it is the most common reason recent reviews give for leaving.
Best pick: Fathom
Fathom's free plan has no expiry date and no cap on recordings, storage or transcription. The limit is the AI layer: advanced summaries cover your first five calls each month, after which you get Fathom's general summary template.
The tradeoff matters for Krisp switchers in particular. Fathom sends a bot into the meeting by default, with bot-free capture still in beta on Mac. If a quiet, botless meeting was part of what you liked about Krisp, weigh that before switching.
Runner-up: Wispr Notetaker
Wispr's free plan, Flow Free, includes Wispr Notetaker with speaker identification and a weekly allowance, and nothing joins the call. The allowance resets every week, recordings under five minutes don't count toward it, and you can use your notes in Claude and ChatGPT on the free plan.
Krisp transcripts miss names, terms and speakers
On G2, inaccurate transcription is one of Krisp's most-tagged complaints, with reviewers saying names and technical terms often need fixing by hand, especially with accents. Speaker names are the bigger gap. Krisp's help centre says it doesn't know speaker names on its own: automatic real names apply only to 1:1 meetings, so on a group call you pick each name from the invite yourself, and calls that weren't on your calendar need every speaker assigned by hand.
Best pick: Wispr Notetaker
Wispr Flow is the winning alternative to Krisp for users who value accuracy.
- Context before the call. It starts with the people on your calendar invite, your personal dictionary and connected tools like Gmail and Slack, instead of transcribing cold.
- Your dictionary carries over. It's the same dictionary Wispr Flow uses for dictation, so the client names and acronyms you've already taught it are spelled correctly from day one.
- A second pass after the meeting. When the call ends, it re-reads the entire recording with that context, so the refined transcript comes back sharper than the live one.
- Named speakers. The refined transcript names speakers from the calendar invite and clues in the conversation, like someone being addressed by name. If it can't confirm who spoke, it shows Speaker N rather than guessing, and you name that person once for the whole transcript. Read more about how speaker names work.
- Rare among notetakers. On the pages Wispr has reviewed for Otter, Granola and Fireflies, none documents a pass over the words after the meeting.
Runner-up: Fireflies
Fireflies is the only one of the big meeting assistants with a custom vocabulary rated on G2, so you can teach it your team's terms. Its notetaker joins as a visible participant by default, with bot-free desktop and Chrome modes available.
Krisp recordings don't always start
G2's review summary notes reports of recordings that fail to start, stop early or never become available. A Trustpilot reviewer added that the app doesn't let you choose which call to record when another app is open in the background.
Best pick: Wispr Notetaker
Wispr Notetaker records on your device across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Slack huddles. It detects ad-hoc calls that were never on your calendar and hands off cleanly between back-to-back meetings, so the call that came up at the last minute still gets captured. It follows your system's default microphone, so if you switch to a headset mid-meeting, it changes over almost immediately and no recording is lost.
Runner-up: Fathom
Fathom scores 9.7 out of 10 for call recording on G2 across more than 2,200 ratings, ahead of Fireflies at 9.2. This alternative notetaker joins scheduled calls from your calendar, which makes capture dependable, at the cost of a bot in the meeting.
Krisp is priced for people who use both halves
Krisp Core is $8 per user a month billed annually, or $16 month to month. Reviewers who mainly want meeting notes, or who pay for themselves, often find that steep. A few also mention resource use, with long calls slowing their laptops.
Best pick: Otter
Otter Pro costs $8.33 per user a month billed annually, or $16.99 month to month, which is within cents of Krisp Core. It includes 1,200 transcription minutes a month and up to 90 minutes per conversation. Otter's notetaker joins Zoom, Google Meet and Teams as a participant, and its desktop app can record without a bot when you switch that on.
Runner-up: Fireflies
Fireflies Pro is $10 per seat a month billed annually, or $18 month to month, with a heavier focus on sales and CRM workflows.
Krisp support can be slow
Krisp's G2 support score is solid at about 9.0 out of 10, but its Trustpilot profile tells a different story. Krisp has replied to 40% of negative reviews there and typically takes more than a month to do it, and several reviewers describe waiting days for help with billing or log-in problems.
Best pick: Fathom
We haven't tested support response times ourselves, so this pick rests on what reviewers say. On G2, Fathom scores 9.7 out of 10 for quality of support across more than 4,800 ratings, and reviewers regularly describe its team as responsive and helpful. For comparison, Krisp scores about 9.0, Fireflies 8.8 and Otter 8.5.
Runner-up: Scribbl
Scribbl scores 9.3 for quality of support on G2 across more than 450 ratings.
Krisp's setup depends on virtual audio devices
Krisp's notes rely on its own virtual microphone and speaker. Its help centre says both have to be selected in your calling app, and if you skip the Krisp Speaker, the notes only include your side of the conversation. On G2, reviewers report audio devices being selected incorrectly and having to reset microphone or speaker settings by hand when they switch apps or devices.
Tied best pick: Scribbl and Wispr Notetaker
On Google Meet, Scribbl works through a Chrome extension, so there is nothing to reroute and nothing joins the call. On Zoom and Microsoft Teams, Scribbl Desktop for Mac and Windows records from your own computer, again with no bot. The free plan covers 10 meetings a month, and Pro is $13 per user a month billed annually, or $20 month to month. It is the strongest fit for teams that run most of their meetings on Google Meet.
Wispr Notetaker records on your device using your system's default microphone, so there is no virtual microphone or speaker to select in each calling app. It captures both sides of Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Slack huddles with nothing joining the call, and if you plug in a headset mid-meeting, it follows the change without losing the recording. On Mac, named speakers need accessibility permission, which you grant once. It suits people who want a desktop and iPhone app rather than a browser extension.
Runner-up: Granola
Granola records your microphone and the call's audio directly, with nothing joining the meeting, and it runs on macOS, Windows, iOS and Android. It is built for people who like to type their own notes during a call, then let Granola fill in the rest from the transcript. The free plan has no meeting limit but shows only the last 30 days of notes, and Business costs $14 per user a month. Speaker tags work on Google Meet and Zoom with some setup; elsewhere the transcript splits the call into Me and Them.
For a closer look, see how Wispr Notetaker compares with Granola and the best Granola alternatives.
Two specialist tools worth knowing
Some teams seek alternatives to Krisp for more specific reasons. Equal Time is built around fairness in meetings: alongside transcripts and notes, it tracks speaking time so you can see whose voices are underrepresented. Jamworks focuses on accessibility, turning meetings into formats like subtitled clips and audio snippets, and is aimed at people for whom writing notes during a call is hard. Both send a bot into the meeting by default.
How the Krisp alternatives compare
Prices are per user per month, read from each vendor's pricing page in October and November 2026.
Switching without losing your Krisp history
Your archive doesn't have to move for you to switch, which is useful, because Krisp makes moving it hard. Krisp has no importer from other notetakers, and its only way in is uploading files one at a time. Going out, transcripts export as plain text, recordings download individually, and there is a Webhook API if someone on your team wants to script an export.
Your Krisp history can stay right where it is while you move your new meetings over:
- Install Wispr Flow, which includes Wispr Notetaker, and connect your calendar.
- Connect both Krisp and Wispr Notetaker to Claude.
- Ask Claude about any meeting, old or new, and name both tools in your prompt when you want the older history.
- If you also have meetings in Granola or Otter, import them into Wispr Notetaker directly.
How to decide in one week
A comparison table narrows the list, but only your own meetings can tell you which notes hold up when you need them.
- Pick a real meeting with at least three people, ideally one where someone commits to something. Use the bot-free AI notetaker comparison if you want more candidates.
- Run Krisp and your top alternative on it at the same time, and tell the room you're recording before you start.
- Afterward, check the names and terms on the commitments in both transcripts, not the summary prose.
- A week later, ask both archives the same question in the AI tool you already use, and see which answer you'd forward to a colleague.
Try Wispr Notetaker on your next meeting, keep Krisp running beside it, and let the transcripts decide.
Frequently asked questions
Does Krisp still have a free plan?
No. New users get a seven-day trial with full access and no credit card, and access ends when the trial does unless you subscribe. Fathom, Granola, Otter, Fireflies, Scribbl and Wispr Notetaker all have free plans, each limited in a different way.
Does Krisp identify speakers by name?
Automatically, only in 1:1 meetings. Krisp's help centre says it doesn't know speaker names on its own, so in group calls you choose names from the meeting invite yourself, and meetings that weren't on your calendar need speakers assigned by hand. Wispr Notetaker names speakers in group calls from the calendar invite and the conversation, and anyone it can't confirm you name once for the whole transcript.
Can I import my Krisp history into Wispr Notetaker?
No. Wispr Notetaker imports from Granola and Otter. For Krisp, export transcripts as text one at a time, or leave the archive in place and search both tools together from Claude.
Does Wispr Notetaker cancel background noise?
No. It is a notetaker, not a noise-cancellation tool. If noise cancellation is the part of Krisp you depend on, Krisp is still the better tool for that job.
Is Wispr Notetaker available on my phone?
Yes, on iPhone, as well as Mac and Windows. Your personal dictionary and named speakers work the same way on every device.
Do meeting participants know I'm recording?
Nothing joins the call, so the meeting looks normal. Wispr Notetaker keeps a consent reminder on screen the whole time it records, your organization can require you to confirm consent before recording starts, and you can add a Wispr Notetaker notice to your calendar invites.
Does Wispr Notetaker keep recordings of my meetings?
Your meetings are yours. Wispr Notetaker encrypts meeting audio and keeps it only briefly, to create your transcript, let you resume a meeting, check quality and troubleshoot, then deletes it automatically. It never creates voiceprints or biometric profiles of anyone on the call. You decide how long transcripts are kept, from indefinitely to auto-deleting after 1, 7, 30, 90, 180 or 365 days, and an admin can set that for the whole organization.
Is Wispr Notetaker secure enough for work meetings?
Wispr holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certification on every plan, and on Growth and Enterprise a signed BAA makes Wispr Notetaker HIPAA-ready. You can opt out of model training at any time, and on Enterprise model training is locked off. Audit reports are available through the Wispr Trust Center.
