Meeting notes · checked 2026-10-19

Can I vibecode Krisp?

KINDA· weekend project

Krisp is two products in one app: noise cancellation on your microphone and on what you hear, and a note taker that records calls without joining them. The note taker is within reach. Capture the microphone and the call audio, transcribe on the machine with Whisper, and ask an LLM for the summary; Meetily and anarlog already do this in the open. The weekend goes on audio plumbing: a loopback device on macOS or Windows, the permission prompts, and the call apps that behave differently. The noise cancellation is the part that does not transfer, because Krisp's trained models and virtual devices that work in every call app are the product.

$16/moprice per seat

$192you'd save a year

weekendbuild time

—people replaced it

Before you start

What you need on hand.

DifficultyIntermediate · Some system setup or keys.

TimeA weekend; audio routing is the slow part

Claude Code, Codex or CursorAny of them can run the prompt.
Python 3.12faster-whisper and sounddevice install from pip; macOS may need Xcode command line tools.
A loopback audio deviceBlackHole 2ch on macOS plus a multi-output device so you still hear the call; WASAPI loopback on Windows.
An LLM endpointOllama running locally, or any OpenAI-compatible API key, for the summaries.
Your Krisp exportsMP3 recordings and .txt transcripts, downloaded meeting by meeting.

Before you buildKrisp's 7-day trial covers every feature, so try noise cancellation there before deciding what to build. The DIY version records and summarizes but does not clean audio.

1. Install one agent: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.
2. Make an empty folder and open it in the agent.
3. Paste the prompt below, press enter, and answer its questions as it builds.

The prompt

Build me a local meeting recorder and note taker to replace Krisp. Requirements:

- Python 3.12: a FastAPI server with one plain HTML page and no build step. `python -m meetnotes`
serves http://localhost:4900; Start and Stop buttons begin and end a meeting.
- Capture: two input devices read with `sounddevice`, the microphone and a loopback device
(BlackHole 2ch on macOS, a WASAPI loopback on Windows), named in .env as MIC_DEVICE and
LOOPBACK_DEVICE. Save each as 16 kHz mono WAV in ~/MeetingNotes/<date>-<title>/.
- Transcription: `faster-whisper` with WHISPER_MODEL from .env (default `small`, CPU int8), run on
30-second chunks while recording. Label lines "You" for the mic and "Them" for the loopback,
with timestamps.
- Notes: after Stop, send the transcript to an OpenAI-compatible endpoint from .env (Ollama on
localhost by default) and write notes.md with a summary, decisions and action items; keep
the raw text in transcript.md.
- Storage: sqlite3 with FTS5 in ~/MeetingNotes/index.db (title, start, duration, folder path) and a
search box over transcripts and notes.
- Interface: a meeting list, a meeting page with transcript, notes and an audio player, export
as .txt or .md, and delete a meeting together with its files.
- Single user. No accounts, no telemetry, local-first: only the LLM endpoint you configure
leaves the machine, and the README says exactly what is sent.
- Out of scope: noise cancellation and a virtual microphone, accent conversion, calendar
auto-join, speaker separation beyond You/Them, CRM integrations.
- README: install steps, loopback setup (budget half an hour for it), the .env keys, and a note to
tell people before recording and to check local recording-consent rules.

Opens your agent with the prompt filled in, you press enter. Or copy it and paste it into an empty folder.

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Then keep going

Next prompts, same folder.

The first prompt builds the core. Run these one at a time in the same folder to grow it into your own Krisp.

Add an importer to the meeting notes app in this folder. Requirements:

- A command `meetnotes import-krisp <folder>` that reads the .txt transcripts and .mp3 recordings
  downloaded from Krisp, pairing files by name.
- Create one meeting per pair in ~/MeetingNotes with the original date taken from the file's
  modified time, index it in FTS5, and skip files that were imported before.
- Offer to generate notes.md for each imported transcript with the configured LLM, and
  print a count of imported, skipped and failed files.
- Update the README with the Krisp export steps.

Add a question box to the meeting notes app in this folder. Requirements:

- Retrieve the 8 best transcript chunks for a question with FTS5 bm25, then send only those
  chunks to the configured LLM and show the answer with links to the meetings it used.
- Never send a whole transcript; show the user the chunks that will be sent before the call.
- Keep a history of questions in SQLite and let the user delete any entry.
- Update the README with exactly what leaves the machine.

Add a weekly digest to the meeting notes app in this folder. Requirements:

- A command `meetnotes digest` that collects action items from notes.md files of the last
  7 days and writes ~/MeetingNotes/digests/<year>-W<week>.md grouped by meeting.
- Mark items found twice across meetings as repeated.
- Optionally email the digest through SMTP settings in .env.
- Update the README with a cron example.

What you lose

Noise cancellation on the microphone and the speaker, which is what Krisp started with
Accent conversion and voice translation
Automatic notes for meetings on your calendar, plus the mobile app
Hosted transcripts that teammates can open, comment on and share
Connectors to Slack, Notion, HubSpot and Salesforce, and a managed security story for a team

Why people still pay

People pay for clean audio that works in whatever call app they are in, with no bot in the meeting and notes waiting after the call. The security paperwork (SOC 2, HIPAA, a promise not to train on meeting data) matters when a company has to approve a recorder.

Moatproprietary models execution polish integrations

Do the math

Krisp or your own copy?

Seats

Over

Your usage

Count my time12h ×$/h

Krisp, 1 yr$192

Your own copy, 1 yr$38running + build session

You keep$155pays for itself in the first month

Estimate · Whisper and Ollama run on your own machine for nothing; a hosted LLM for summaries costs a few cents a meeting. The build is token usage on your agent plan.

Leaving Krisp

Take your data, then cancel.

1 · Take your data out of Krisp

1Open My Notes in the Krisp dashboard (app.krisp.ai/meeting-notes) and open a meeting.
2Click the three-dot icon in the upper-right corner and choose Download recording: it saves an MP3.
3In the same menu choose Export transcript .txt for a plain text transcript.
4Each meeting is downloaded one at a time; we found no bulk export in the help center.

2 · Cancel Krisp

1Open your account settings and go to Billing, then Manage Subscription (the help article shows the last steps; the menu path is from a third-party guide).
2Click Downgrade under your current plan; Krisp uses that word for cancelling.
3The account drops at the end of the current billing cycle and you keep the paid features until then.
4Payments are not refundable unless the Terms of Use say otherwise.

After a free trial ends you keep access to your content for 90 days, only to export it; Krisp may delete it after that, per the terms.
A downgrade takes effect at the next renewal date, so cancel before the renewal rather than after it.
Switching a yearly plan to monthly means cancelling and waiting for the cycle to end.
Copying a note's text from the dashboard also publishes a public link to it, so check who still holds shared links before you leave.

Checked 2026-10-19 against Krisp's docs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

The escape hatch

Don't feel like building it? These are already free.

MeetilyOpen sourceMIT desktop meeting assistant: live transcription, speaker labels and summaries, with processing on your machine.★ 32k · active Sep 2026 · one-click install
macOS, WindowsVisit ↗anarlogOpen sourceMIT meeting notepad that listens to device audio without a bot and keeps notes in local SQLite; bring your own AI provider.★ 9.5k · active Oct 2026 · one-click install
macOSVisit ↗BuzzOpen sourceMIT app that transcribes and translates audio offline with Whisper; transcription only, no summaries.★ 22k · active Oct 2026 · one-click install
macOS, Windows, LinuxVisit ↗

All 5 free alternatives to Krisp ›

The numbers

Krisp pricing

Plan	Monthly	Annual, per month	What you get
Free trial	$0	$0	7 days of every premium feature: transcription, noise cancellation, recording and AI notes, with accent conversion limited.
Core	$16	$8	AI note taking including in-person meetings, transcription, recording, noise cancellation, multilingual transcripts, AI chat, mobile app, outbound call recording, integrations and webhooks, 1 hour a day of accent conversion, 10 GB storage.
Advanced	$30	$15	Everything in Core plus more accent conversion, Salesforce and ConnectWise, admin controls, manager view, deal grouping, trim and comment, team webhooks, 60 GB storage.
Enterprise	custom	—	SSO and SCIM, super admin, on-device private transcription and recordings, HIPAA support, usage analytics, unlimited storage, dedicated account manager.

Free tier: Trial only: 7 days, no card, no stated minute caps.
Billing: Monthly or annual, charged per seat; cards only, with invoices for Enterprise. Per the terms, fees are non-refundable and a downgrade takes effect at the next renewal date.
Hidden costs: Storage is capped per plan (10 GB on Core, 60 GB on Advanced) and extra storage is a paid add-on. Signup asks for a Google or Outlook calendar connection by default; a no-calendar route exists but is not self-serve.
Source: krisp.ai

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Granola$14/mo · Meeting notesYES

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Amie$25/mo · Meeting notesKINDA

Questions

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The pricing page offers only a 7-day trial with no card; we could not confirm a permanent free plan.

Kinda. The core is a weekend build with the prompt on this page, but real gaps remain: Noise cancellation on the microphone and the speaker, which is what Krisp started with, Accent conversion and voice translation.

About $16 a month on the Core plan per seat, $192 a year (checked 2026-10-19).

Noise cancellation on the microphone and the speaker, which is what Krisp started with; Accent conversion and voice translation; Automatic notes for meetings on your calendar, plus the mobile app; Hosted transcripts that teammates can open, comment on and share; Connectors to Slack, Notion, HubSpot and Salesforce, and a managed security story for a team. If any of those matter to you, keep paying.