Krisp or Dalm: where the sound of your meetings ends up

Krisp and Dalm can both take notes from a call with no bot in it. Krisp also removes background noise and echo during calls, and its phone app records meetings in the room. Krisp’s own pages differ on where a call is transcribed: its meeting assistant page says English on the computer and other languages in its cloud, while its help page says meetings are transcribed in the cloud and recordings are kept there. Dalm is a Mac app: speech is recognised on your Mac in every language it supports and no audio is sent anywhere, while each transcript goes to our servers automatically and an outside language model reads it for the summary.

Krisp and Dalm, before, during and after a meeting

	Krisp	Dalm
Getting into a call	Works from the audio on your computer in Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Slack huddles and other conferencing apps, with no bot; a bot is an option on platforms like Zoom	Two streams from your Mac, your microphone and the call’s sound; nobody joins the call
How you sound to others	Background noise, echo and cross-talk removed during the call, on every plan; your accent can be converted	The recording is cleaned of echo and noise after you stop, so the speech can be recognised
While people are talking	Live text in its Transcript Only mode	A draft marked as preliminary; speech is not translated
A meeting in the room	Its iPhone or Android app, as audio or video; the phone app works offline	Your Mac’s microphone; the iPhone app is in development
Speaking into other apps	Not found	A key types what you say into any app on your Mac
A file you already have	Upload a recording to have it transcribed	Audio or video files up to four hours long, on Free; the file is read in place and not copied
Tools it connects to	Zapier, Slack, Notion, Microsoft Teams, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Affinity, Salesforce and ConnectWise	Google Calendar
Apps	Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android and a browser extension	Mac with Apple Silicon · macOS 15.0 or later; iPhone app in development

Where the sound and the transcript of each kind of meeting end up is set out further down. What Krisp does is taken from its own home page, note taker pages, meeting assistant page, pricing page and security page, checked on 2 October 2026.

Where Krisp is better than Dalm

• The others hear you, not the room. Krisp removes background noise, echo and cross-talk during a call, in any calling app and on every plan, and it can convert your accent as you speak. This is what Krisp is known for. Dalm cleans echo and noise out of the recording after you stop, so the speech can be recognised.
• A say over what is stored in its cloud. Krisp’s security page says it keeps transcripts, recordings and summaries in its cloud only once you turn on meeting notes and agree to store them; its Transcript Only mode records no audio or video; and its Enterprise plan lists transcription and recordings kept on the device. Dalm gives no such choice: speech is recognised on your Mac and no audio is sent anywhere, but each transcript goes to our servers on its own, and nothing turns that off.
• A phone in the room, and Windows. Krisp’s iPhone and Android app records a meeting in the room as audio or video, and works offline; Krisp also runs on Mac and Windows and as a browser extension. Dalm needs a Mac with Apple Silicon · macOS 15.0 or later; its iPhone app is in development.
• A bot, when a call needs one. Krisp takes a call from the audio on your computer, and can also send a bot on platforms like Zoom. Dalm never adds anyone to the call.
• Text while people talk. Krisp shows live text in its Transcript Only mode. Dalm shows a draft as it records, marked as preliminary, and the full transcript comes after.
• The tools a sales team already uses. Krisp’s pricing page lists Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Affinity, ConnectWise, Zapier, Slack and Notion. The tool Dalm connects to is Google Calendar.
• Written statements on hosting, deletion and audits. Krisp’s security page says its back end runs on AWS, its data is stored in the United States, summaries are written with Microsoft Azure services, and deleted transcripts and summaries are hard-deleted; it lists a SOC 2 Type II certification and PCI DSS 4.0. Dalm has no certification.
• Less to pay, billed annually. Billed annually, Krisp Core is $8 a month for each user and Advanced is $15. Billed annually, Dalm Pro is $12 a month and Team is $32 a month for each member (paid plans are not open yet).

Where Dalm is better than Krisp

• The sound stays put in every language and every room. Krisp’s meeting assistant page says a call in English is transcribed on the computer and a call in another language in its cloud; its help page says meetings are transcribed in the cloud; and a meeting in the room goes through its phone app. Dalm works one way for calls, meetings in the room, dictation and files you bring in, in every language it supports: speech is recognised on your Mac and no audio is sent anywhere. Text is what travels — each transcript goes to our servers automatically, and an outside language model reads it to write the summary. What leaves the Mac, piece by piece.
• A free plan rather than a seven-day trial. Krisp’s pricing page starts with a free trial: $0 for seven days. Dalm’s Free plan is a plan, with no end date, and it includes the recording, the transcript and the summary of a meeting. No plan puts a limit on recording minutes, on the length of a recording, or on how long anything is kept.
• Dictation next to your meetings. A key types what you say into any app on your Mac; the Krisp pages we read do not describe typing speech into other apps. Everything you say lands in one archive you can search: meetings, phone calls, conversations in the room, and what you dictate to a model. Asking one question across all of it is still in development.
• A summary shaped by what you jot down. The few lines you type while people talk become the outline of the summary, and each point in it carries a word-for-word quote. Every quote shows you where it was said — open it and the transcript opens at that place.
• No recordings piling up. Krisp’s paid plans come with 10 GB or 60 GB of storage. The audio is deleted once the text exists. The transcript and your dictations sync to our servers.

What each costs: a seven-day trial against a free plan

	Krisp	Dalm
To start	Free trial: $0 for 7 days, no credit card	Free: a plan, not a trial
Billed annually, a month	Core $8 for each user; Advanced $15 for each user	Pro $12; Team $32 for each member
Billed monthly	Core $16 for each user; Advanced $30 for each user	Pro $16; Team $40 for each member
Storage	Core 10 GB, Advanced 60 GB; Enterprise lists no cap	—
When the trial ends	Not found	—

On the Dalm side the Free plan has no end date, and when a paid plan ends, the free plan comes back and everything recorded stays where it is. No plan puts a limit on recording minutes, on the length of a recording, or on how long anything is kept. What each paid plan adds is on the pricing page, and a group working from one dictionary has a page of its own. Until Dalm is released, the waitlist is the way in. Krisp’s prices are its regular ones, from its own pricing page, checked on 2 October 2026; Enterprise is priced on request.

Three kinds of meeting, and where the sound of each ends up

Meeting	Krisp	Dalm
A call in English, on your computer	Its meeting assistant page: the transcript is made on the computer. Its help page: meetings are transcribed in the cloud, and the data used for it is deleted right after. Its security page: once you turn on notes and agree to it, Krisp keeps the transcript and the summary in its cloud; its help pages: recordings are kept in its cloud. Its Transcript Only mode records no audio or video	Speech is recognised on your Mac and no audio is sent anywhere; the transcript syncs to our servers automatically, and no setting stops it
A call in another language	Transcribed in its cloud; its help page says the data used for transcription is deleted right after	Recognised on your Mac, as English is, and the transcript syncs in the same way
A meeting in the room	Recorded with its iPhone or Android app, as audio or video; a recording can also be uploaded. Where the phone app transcribes: Not found	Recorded through your Mac’s microphone and recognised on your Mac; the transcript syncs to our servers
A call with a bot in it	A bot can join on platforms like Zoom	No bot: your microphone and the call’s sound, taken on your Mac
The summary	Written from the transcript with Microsoft Azure services	Written after every meeting by an outside language model from the transcript; no audio goes to it
On the top plan	Enterprise lists transcription and recordings kept on the device, and storage with no cap	The same on every plan, Free included

The audio is deleted once the text exists. “Not found” marks what Krisp’s pages leave unsaid; it does not mean Krisp lacks it.

Five meetings, and the better pick for each

• A call from a noisy café or an open office. Krisp, which takes the noise and the echo out of the call while you talk. Dalm cleans the sound for its transcript, after the call.
• A client call in a language other than English, whose sound should not leave your laptop. Dalm: speech is recognised on your Mac in that language as in English, no audio is sent anywhere, and the transcript syncs to our servers. In Krisp, a call in another language is transcribed in its cloud.
• A walk-and-talk between two buildings. Krisp, whose phone app records it and works offline. Dalm records on a Mac, and its iPhone app is in development.
• A meeting across the desk with the laptop open. Dalm: the Mac’s microphone records the room, each voice is separated on the Mac, and the transcript syncs to our servers. Krisp’s pages send a meeting in the room to its phone app.
• A sales team on Windows that logs every call in its CRM. Krisp, with apps for Windows and Mac and a link to Salesforce, HubSpot or Pipedrive. Dalm is a Mac app, and the tool it connects to is Google Calendar.

Other comparisons before you choose

If you are still choosing, ways to record a meeting, compared by what each one leaves you; recording a meeting in the room with a Mac; and another app that makes the transcript on the computer in one of its modes, compared with us line by line. Where each step of transcription takes place, device or cloud, is set out with no product names.