Krisp

Overview

Krisp is a real-time noise cancellation tool that eliminates background noise from both ends of a call. It works with any communication app and uses AI to filter out sounds like barking dogs, traffic, or keyboard typing. The freemium model offers basic features for free with premium upgrades.

Category: Audio & VoicePricing: FreemiumRating: ★ 4.5Best for: Professionals who take calls from noisy environments

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Key Features

  • Real-time AI noise cancellation
  • Works with any calling app
  • Removes background noise for both parties
  • Echo cancellation
  • Free tier with limited daily usage

Pros

  • Improves call clarity significantly
  • Easy to set up and use
  • Compatible with all major communication apps

Cons

  • Free tier has a daily usage limit
  • May consume CPU resources on older devices

Who Is This Tool Best For?

Professionals who take calls from noisy environments

The short answers on Krisp

What is Krisp?

A desktop application that sits between your microphone and your conferencing software and removes background noise in real time, and can do the same for the audio coming from the other side.

Is Krisp right for you?

Anyone taking calls from somewhere noisy — a home, a shared office, an airport — and anyone whose calls are disrupted by the other person’s environment.

Is Krisp worth paying for?

The cancellation runs free for a set number of minutes each week; a subscription removes that ceiling, which is the only thing the paid tiers change.

How is this different from a transcription tool?

It never produces text. It improves the audio of a live call, which is a different problem from recording and summarising one, and it is often the reason the transcript is usable at all.

Use cases

Taking calls from a noisy place

Removing a fan, a street or a coffee machine is the core case and it works without the other person noticing anything.

Fixing the other side’s audio

Suppressing noise from the incoming stream helps when the person you are speaking to has a bad setup and you cannot fix it.

Improving recordings for transcription

Cleaner capture transcribes more accurately, so the benefit carries into whatever processes the call afterwards.

Pricing

Krisp starts free, and we record 4.5 for it here. A free tier with a weekly allowance of noise-free minutes, and paid plans that remove the limit, so cost tracks call volume. Details are on the vendor site. Plan prices are the Krisp site’s to state, not ours to fix.

Alternatives

  • A better microphone — Hardware helps and does not remove a room.
  • Your conferencing app’s built-in suppression — Free and weaker, and it only affects your outgoing audio.
  • A dedicated quiet room — Effective and not always available.

You can compare them directly in our AI tools directory.

What to weigh before deciding

Check where the audio is processed

Noise cancellation runs on the audio stream. Confirm whether processing is local or in the cloud before using it on sensitive calls.

Test it before an important call

Aggressive suppression can clip the beginnings of words. Try it in a real meeting rather than trusting the demo.