Best Krisp alternatives 2026: noise cancelling and AI notes

The best Krisp alternative depends on which half of Krisp you use. For noise cancellation, start with what you already have: Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet ship built-in noise suppression, macOS has Voice Isolation, and NVIDIA Broadcast is free on RTX PCs. For bot-free AI meeting notes, look at Reline, Granola and Jamie.

We make Reline, so read this as a vendor’s roundup. Reline appears only in the notes half: it does not cancel background noise, and the noise section recommends other tools for that job. Every price below comes from the vendor’s own pricing page, checked on 20 October 2026.

Krisp started as AI noise cancellation and grew into a meeting assistant. Its pricing page now lists a 7-day free trial with no card required, then Core at $16 per user per month ($8 billed annually), Advanced at $30 ($15 billed annually) and a custom Enterprise plan. Noise cancellation is built into every plan. There is no separate noise-only plan, although you can switch the meeting assistant off.

That bundle is why most people search for an alternative. If you only want quiet calls, you pay for a notes product you may not use, and free tools now cover much of that job. If you only want notes, you pay for audio processing, while dedicated notes apps do more around the transcript: collaborative editing, kept recordings or chat across all your meetings. One Krisp feature has no equivalent in this list: accent conversion, which Core includes for 1 hour a day.

Before installing anything, check your meeting app. Zoom’s desktop app offers four background noise suppression levels: Auto (the default), Low, Medium and High, where High also removes background speech and can use more CPU. Microsoft Teams has noise suppression on its desktop and mobile apps, documents Auto, Low and High levels on iOS, and lets you switch it off for a studio microphone. Google Meet removes non-speech noise such as typing, doors and construction; on a computer it is cloud-based and included in eligible Workspace editions and Google One plans with 2 TB or more.

The limit: each one works only inside its own app, and Google says Meet does not cancel voices from a TV or people talking nearby. If you move between Zoom, Teams, Slack and Discord all day, a system-wide tool is less fiddly.

NVIDIA Broadcast is a free Windows app that cleans your microphone with AI Noise Removal and Room Echo Removal; you then pick NVIDIA Broadcast as the microphone in your call or streaming app. The catch is hardware: it needs an NVIDIA RTX GPU (GeForce RTX 2060, Quadro RTX 3000, TITAN RTX or higher) on Windows 10 or 11. On a Mac, or on a laptop without an RTX card, it is not an option.

macOS has its own mic modes. In an app that supports them, such as FaceTime, click the Video (or microphone) indicator in the menu bar, choose Mic Mode, then Voice Isolation to filter out background sounds. It costs nothing and needs no install. Apple notes that the options vary by app, so check that your call app offers it before you rely on it.

Krisp’s meeting assistant records without a bot by default, so a fair alternative should too. All three tools below capture on your computer with nothing joining the call.

Reline records your microphone and system audio locally on macOS, Windows and Linux (beta), or in any browser, with no bot in the call. Transcription, AI summaries and storage run in the cloud, in 60+ languages, with speaker separation (Me vs Other: your microphone vs the call audio). The recording is kept next to the AI summary, with a play button on every transcript line, inside a Notion-style notepad your team can co-edit, with five permission levels per note and folder.

Chat works across notes, folders and whole workspaces, and its answers quote the transcript with timestamps and name the source note. Integrations cover Slack, Linear and Notion, and an MCP server connects your notes to AI assistants. The free plan gives 1 hour per note and 10 hours of transcription a month, no card. Professional is $15 per user per month ($12 billed annually) with unlimited recording.

Where it falls short: Reline does not cancel background noise or convert accents, it has no mobile apps yet, and someone has to be in the meeting with the app open.

Granola transcribes your computer audio in the background without joining the meeting, and turns the notes you type into a cleaner write-up. It runs on macOS, Windows, iOS and Android. Basic is free with 30 days of meeting history; Business is $14 per user per month and Enterprise $35, per Granola’s pricing page. The trade-off: Granola’s security FAQ says it does not retain audio recordings, so there is nothing to replay when a transcript line looks wrong, and there is no browser version.

Jamie says it runs directly on your device and does not need a meeting bot to join your calls. Its free plan includes 10 AI notes a month with a 30-minute limit per meeting; Pro is €39 a month and Team €33 per seat a month, both billed annually, per Jamie’s pricing page. It lists Windows, macOS, iOS and web.

• You want quiet calls in one meeting app: turn on that app’s noise suppression and pay for nothing.
• You want quiet calls in every app on a Windows PC with an RTX GPU: NVIDIA Broadcast.
• You are on a Mac and want no extra software: Voice Isolation, where your call app supports it.
• You want notes your team writes in, with the recording kept for replay: Reline.
• You want a personal notepad on desktop and phone: Granola.
• You need noise cancellation, notes and accent conversion in one app: stay on Krisp.

Many people end up splitting the job: free built-in noise suppression for the call itself, and a dedicated notes app for everything that happens after it.

• Krisp pricing: krisp.ai/pricing
• Krisp noise cancellation: krisp.ai/noise-cancellation
• NVIDIA Broadcast app and FAQ: nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/broadcasting/broadcast-app
• Zoom, background noise suppression: support.zoom.com (article KB0059985)
• Microsoft, reduce background noise in Teams meetings: support.microsoft.com
• Google Meet noise cancellation: support.google.com/meet/answer/9919960
• Apple Mac User Guide, mic modes: support.apple.com/guide/mac-help
• Granola pricing and security FAQ: granola.ai/pricing, docs.granola.ai
• Jamie pricing: meetjamie.ai/pricing
• Reline pricing: reline.so/pricing