Earkeep
The Krisp alternative that keeps the whole meeting on your device
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Krisp cleans your audio and transcribes English on your machine, then keeps the transcript, recording and summary in its US cloud. Earkeep keeps the whole record on your disk and never writes audio at all.
14-day full trial, no account required.
- Always on, no meeting to schedule
- The record is a file on your disk
- €39 once, not $96 per user per year
The short answer
If people hear your kids or your street, buy Krisp: nine years of signal processing, licensed by Discord and Twilio, and Earkeep has nothing like it. Krisp is also bot-free, runs on mobile, and labels speakers. The gap is afterwards: Krisp keeps your audio local and your meeting in its cloud. Earkeep keeps all of it on your device, for €39 once.
Why people look for a Krisp alternative
Capture the whole day, not the meetings you booked
Krisp captures per meeting and by default wants your calendar connected, which misses the unscheduled huddle. For in person, its own page says to record on your phone, then upload: two deliberate acts. Earkeep is already listening, and you mark the meeting afterwards.
Your audio stays local with Krisp, your meeting does not
Krisp's noise cancellation and, since 2026, English transcription run on-device, a real privacy story. But its other fifteen languages are transcribed on its servers, notes are generated on Azure, and transcripts, recordings and summaries are stored in its US cloud; on-device storage is Enterprise only. One Trustpilot reviewer reports "9 meetings using Krisp and only 3 of them kept their transcriptions."
Earkeep transcribes every supported language in memory on your device, and never writes the audio to disk.
A record your own agents read, straight off your disk
Krisp ships a hosted MCP server at mcp.krisp.ai, over its cloud copy of your meetings, with an unpublished tool surface. Earkeep's runs on loopback over your own files, read-only by construction: search_spans and read_span. Earkeep writes no summaries itself; ten in-app ACP agents do, with your own CLI and key.
Side by side
| Capability | Earkeep | Krisp |
|---|---|---|
| Always-on capture | No start/stop, all day | Per meeting, calendar-driven |
| Noise cancellation on the call | None, Earkeep only listens | Best in class, on-device, two-way |
| Speech to text on your device | Every supported language | English on-device, 15 languages server-side |
| Real-time accent conversion | Not a thing Earkeep does | Speaker and listener side |
| Retroactive spans on a timeline | Define the meeting afterward | No equivalent concept |
| Labels who said what | No diarisation | Speaker identification |
| Where the meeting record lives | Plain JSONL on your own disk | Krisp's US cloud, on-device only on Enterprise |
| Keeps a recording you can replay | Audio is never written to disk | Audio and video, with trimming |
| AI summary when it ends | Via an agent you connect | Notes and action items, generated on Azure |
| Your own agents can read it | ACP agents plus MCP, over local files | Hosted MCP server, over Krisp's cloud copy |
| SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA | Neither, and no cloud to certify | SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA on Advanced |
| Share with people who weren't there | Via your agent, where your team reads | Workspace sharing, Slack, Notion, CRM |
| No account, no email | Nothing to sign up for | Account, plus a calendar connection by default |
| Free tier that doesn't expire | 14 days free, then €39 once | The free plan was removed, 7-day trial |
| Pricing | €39 one time, one device | Core $96/user/year annual, $16/user/month monthly |
| Platform | macOS 13+, Windows 10+ | macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, web dashboard; no Linux |
Built inNo, but an agent you connect canPartlyNot available
What each one costs by year five
Switching takes an afternoon
- Keep Krisp for the noise, install Earkeep for the record. Krisp cleans your call; Earkeep listens and writes the transcript. They run side by side.
- Let a day run, then mark it. Drag a span across the timeline, or connect Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook or any ICS URL. There is no import, so export what you want from Krisp before you cancel.
- Stop paying per seat for the notes. With Krisp's free plan gone, Core at $96 a year ($16 monthly) is the cheapest way to its note taker. Earkeep is €39 once, after a 14-day trial with no account.
Which one fits you
Choose Earkeep if
You want the whole working day kept, in a file you own, with nothing about the meeting leaving the machine.
- The conversations worth keeping were never on your calendar
- "On-device" must cover the transcript and notes, not just the audio filter
- You work in a language other than English
- You'd rather there be no recording at all
- You'd rather pay €39 once than $96 per user per year
Choose Krisp if
Krisp wins several of these outright, and on its home ground Earkeep is not a substitute at all.
- You need noise cancellation; Earkeep cleans no audio
- You need real-time accent conversion, which nobody else here offers
- You need iOS or Android
- You need "who said what"
- You must clear a security review or sign a BAA: SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS and HIPAA on Advanced
If that is you, Krisp's 7-day trial is the right next click. Earkeep is for a week of unscheduled conversation whose notes must survive the tool: see Earkeep for product managers.
Other tools people weigh this against
Granola, Otter.ai, Notta, Wispr Flow and MacWhisper, or all sixteen side by side.
Frequently asked questions
Is Earkeep a good Krisp alternative?
For note-taking, yes: the whole day, every language on-device, plain files, €39 once. For noise cancellation, accent conversion or speaker labels, no, and it has no mobile app.
Does Krisp transcribe on device?
Partly, since 2026: noise cancellation and English transcription run on-device, but the other fifteen languages go to Krisp's servers, and notes, summaries and chat run on Microsoft Azure. Earkeep transcribes every supported language on your machine and writes no summaries.
Where does Krisp store my meeting transcripts and recordings?
In Krisp's US cloud once Meeting Notes is on, with no regional choice or on-device option below Enterprise. Earkeep writes one JSONL file per day to a folder you pick, and never writes audio at all.
Does Earkeep cancel background noise like Krisp?
No. It only listens and never touches your outgoing audio. Run both: Krisp cleaning the call, Earkeep keeping the record.
Is Krisp still free?
Not as a plan. The free tier is gone; there is a 7-day trial, then Core at $96 per user per year, up from $60, which reviewers cite for cancelling. Earkeep's 14-day trial needs no account, then €39 once.
Try Earkeep
14-day full trial, no account required.