Krisp is a noise-canceller that grew an AI Meeting Assistant. The notes live in Krisp’s app, behind $16 per seat per month. If you want good local meeting notes with no bot, plain Markdown, and a folder you own, Quietly is the direct tool, for $49 once.
Plain .md. Front-matter has attendees, calendar, duration. Body is clean, LLM-polished Whisper output.
Notes are a side feature. Krisp's main product is noise cancellation. AI notes are an add-on, and it shows in how shallow the integrations go.
Notes live in Krisp's app. You reach them through Krisp's UI and Krisp's export, never as a plain file in your own folder.
$16 per seat per month on Core. That is $192 a year per person at monthly billing, and Krisp has no free plan, only a 7-day trial.
No MCP, no Cursor, no Codex CLI. If your workflow runs on plain files and AI tools, Krisp doesn't fit it.
| Quietly | Krisp | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary product | Meeting notes | Noise cancellation |
| No bot joins the call | Yes | |
| Where notes live | Plain .md in your folder | Krisp app |
| Noise cancellation built-in | Use Krisp alongside | Industry-leading |
| MCP for Claude / Cursor / Codex | Shipping next | |
| Open in VS Code / any editor | ||
| Works fully offline | Transcribes in the cloud | |
| Pricing | $49 once | $16/seat/mo Core |
If you need these, run both. They aren't the same product.
Krisp's noise cancellation is excellent and well-tuned. Quietly doesn't touch audio quality, so many users keep Krisp running for that.
Krisp ships voice features such as accent localization and voice cancellation that Quietly doesn't have. Those features are why people pay for Krisp.
Krisp runs on both. Quietly is macOS-only today.
We built Quietly around your notes folder first, so it reaches into your file system, your editor, and your AI more deeply than a notes add-on can.
Krisp transcribes meetings in its cloud (on-device transcription is an Enterprise option) and keeps the notes in its app. Quietly writes plain .md to a folder you choose: iCloud, your Git repo, any folder you like.
Krisp Core costs $192 per seat per year at monthly billing, or $96 billed yearly. If you only need the notes, $49 once for Quietly is a smaller line item.
An MCP server for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Codex CLI ships next. Today your editor's filesystem MCP and file readers already read the plain Markdown. Krisp's notes don't flow into your AI editor at all.
Hallway chats, conference talks, customer dinners: open Quietly and press ⌘R for a mic-only recording. Pick Transcribe a file… to convert any audio file. Krisp's flow assumes a call.
Plain .md with YAML front-matter. Open it in VS Code, search it with ripgrep, feed it to your scripts. Krisp's notes stay stuck in Krisp.
Keep Krisp running for noise cancellation. Leave it on as your system audio filter.
Turn off Krisp's AI Meeting Assistant. Krisp Settings → Meeting Assistant → off. Your meetings stop going to Krisp's cloud for transcription.
Install Quietly and point it at a folder. New meetings save there as Markdown. Cursor, Codex CLI, and Claude Desktop read them as files today, and through MCP once that ships.
To bring in old Krisp notes, export them from the app and drop them into your folder. For help, email support@meetquietly.com.
Or read the buyer’s guides: best local meeting note takers for Mac and AI note takers that don’t join your meetings.
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