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What Krisp actually does<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Krisp is a desktop app that sits between your microphone and whatever communication platform you’re using. It works as a virtual audio device. You set Krisp as your microphone input in Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, or wherever, and it processes your audio in real time before passing it through. The AI strips out background noise – barking, traffic, keyboard clatter, construction, the dishwasher running, kids in the next room – before anyone on the call hears it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It also works in reverse. You can filter noise coming from the other side of the call, so if your client is calling from a coffee shop you don’t have to sit through their ambient chaos either. That part gets mentioned less but I actually use it regularly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There’s a third feature that showed up more recently: meeting transcription and AI-generated summaries. I’ll get to that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Krisp works on Mac and Windows and runs locally on your device. The company makes a point of saying the audio never leaves your machine, which matters to people handling sensitive client calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Setting it up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The setup took me about four minutes. Download Krisp<\/a>, install it, open your video call platform, go to audio settings, and switch the microphone to “Krisp Microphone.” That’s basically it. There’s no complicated routing or configuration unless you want to dig into it. For most people it just works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The one thing worth knowing: Krisp occasionally conflicts with other audio software. I had a brief issue with it and a separate podcast recording app competing for the microphone. Closing one fixed it. Not a major problem but worth flagging if you run a complex audio setup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Krisp free plan gives you 60 minutes of noise cancellation per week. That’s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I want to be direct about this because some reviews gloss over it: 60 minutes a week is not much if you’re a remote worker with a normal meeting load. One decent-length team call and you’ve burned through most of it. For someone with light call volume – maybe one or two short check-ins a week – it might stretch. For anyone running client calls, regular standups, or video interviews, you’ll hit the ceiling fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The free plan is genuinely useful as a trial. You can test whether Krisp actually cancels the specific noise in your space, figure out if it causes any issues with your existing setup, and decide if it’s worth paying for. That’s the honest use case for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Krisp Pro runs around $16\/month if you pay monthly, or closer to $8\/month on annual billing. Check their site for current pricing since it shifts occasionally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With Pro you get unlimited noise cancellation for both your microphone and speaker. You also get the transcription and AI summary features. After a call, Krisp can produce a transcript and a summary of what was discussed and what action items came up. It’s not always perfect – names get mangled, technical terms sometimes come out garbled – but as a rough record of a meeting it saves me from frantic note-taking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is Krisp Pro worth it? For me, yes. Eight months in, I’d feel the absence of it. But “worth it” depends entirely on your situation. If you work from a quiet space with a decent microphone and rarely deal with background noise, it’s probably not solving a real problem. The tool is good. It just needs a real problem to solve.<\/p>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/workremotehq.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot_17-6-2026_20627_krisp.ai_-1024x870.jpeg\")
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