This is a fair look at how the three actually differ in 2026. Pricing pulled from each vendor's live pages. Feature claims grounded in current docs and 2026 reviews. AmyNote's own gaps called out where they exist. The verdict at the top, the reasoning below, and no false equivalence anywhere.
Quick Verdict
Pick Avoma if you run an inside-sales org, live inside a CRM, and can justify $77 per rep once you turn on Conversation Intelligence and Revenue Intelligence.
Pick Krisp if noisy home offices and inconsistent mic quality are the actual bottleneck, and the meeting notes are a nice-to-have on top of that.
Pick AmyNote if most of your important conversations happen on your phone, in person, or somewhere a Zoom bot cannot follow, and you want a zero-training privacy stance by default.
What We Compared
We looked at four things that matter more than feature checklists: where each tool captures audio, what you actually pay to unlock the AI, what happens to your recordings, and whether the tool works when there is no scheduled meeting. Every price and feature was checked against the vendor's current documentation in the week this was written.
Avoma: Revenue Intelligence Priced Like Revenue Intelligence
Strengths
Avoma is a full sales-ops stack. Automatic meeting recording across Zoom, Meet, and Teams. Deep CRM sync to Salesforce and HubSpot. Scorecards, coaching, deal-risk scoring, forecast rollups, agenda templates that push into the meeting itself. The Startup plan opens at $19/user/month annual and includes unlimited transcription, AI summary notes, and CRM auto-sync. There is a 14-day free trial with no credit card.
Beyond the base seat, the two add-on modules are the point of the platform. Conversation Intelligence covers call scoring, MEDDIC and SPICED scorecards, real-time answer assist, and topic analysis. Revenue Intelligence covers deal tracking, pipeline hygiene, and forecast rollups. For a RevOps team already committed to the Salesforce or HubSpot ecosystem, the coaching-plus-forecasting stack lives on one invoice, which is easier to defend to finance than three separate tools.
Weaknesses
The headline price is not the price. Conversation Intelligence is a $29/seat/month add-on, and Revenue Intelligence is another $29/seat. A rep with the "full Avoma" experience lands at $77/seat/month annual before scheduler upgrades. Startup is capped at 25 paid seats; Organization at 100. Bot-free capture is not the point of the platform. If your team lives outside the CRM, most of what you pay for goes unused. The bot itself is visible to participants; some prospects push back on recording, and there is no native option for in-person meetings, phone calls, or field visits.
Krisp: Clean Audio First, Meeting Notes Second
Strengths
Krisp built its reputation on on-device noise cancellation that removes barking dogs, keyboard clatter, and construction noise before the audio reaches Zoom, Meet, or any other app. In 2026 the same product also does bot-free meeting recording and transcription of both sides of the call. The Free plan includes 60 minutes of daily noise cancellation, unlimited meeting transcriptions, and two AI meeting notes per day, which is generous for a solo user. The Pro plan is $8/month billed annually, removes daily limits, adds HD noise cancellation, video recording, and multilingual transcription across roughly 19 languages. Business scales to $15 to $30/user/month with SSO, admin controls, and usage analytics.
The clean-audio angle is worth stressing because most meeting-notes tools transcribe whatever audio arrives at the microphone. If the audio is noisy, the transcript is noisy, the summary drifts, and the coaching bot flags the wrong moments. Krisp fixes the input before it reaches any of that. For a support team, a customer-success org, or anyone taking calls from home, the noise-cancellation layer alone is often the reason to buy, and the bot-free transcription becomes a genuinely useful free bonus on top.
Weaknesses
Krisp is audio middleware first. The meeting-notes surface is deliberately simple: transcripts, summaries, and an "Ask Krisp" copilot. No CRM sync, no coaching scorecards, no deal-stage rollups. Language coverage on Pro sits at roughly 19 languages, well below the 100-plus coverage of the cloud-bot leaders. If you want revenue intelligence, Krisp is not the tool. If you want your notes to auto-appear in Salesforce, Krisp is not the tool either. And while Krisp records the mic in the room, it is still built around a laptop or desktop client, not the phone in your pocket.
AmyNote: Mobile-First, Bot-Free, Privacy by Default
Strengths
AmyNote is a pure iOS and Android app that records the conversation happening in front of you, no bot in the meeting, no desktop client to install, no browser extension. It works for in-person conversations, phone calls, dictation, and hallway follow-ups, the exact surfaces where Avoma and Krisp both need a scheduled meeting to be useful. Transcription runs on OpenAI's latest Speech API. Summaries, semantic search, and Q&A run on Anthropic's Claude Opus. Both providers contractually guarantee zero training on user data. Audio is encrypted in transit, not retained by the providers after processing. Transcripts and recordings stay on-device with end-to-end encryption at rest. Speaker identification is cross-session, so the person you met last month is still labeled by name in this month's meeting. Coverage spans 120+ languages with real-time translation. Pricing is a 3-day free trial, no credit card required, then a single flat plan.
The mobile-first bet has one honest advantage over both alternatives: the phone is already the place people take the meetings that matter most. A physician does a home visit. A lawyer meets a client in a conference room without conferencing hardware. A field-sales rep walks a warehouse floor with the customer. A founder pitches over dinner. None of that shows up on a calendar invite. None of it can be joined by a Zoom bot. Krisp's clean-audio pipeline cannot help because there is no laptop mic to clean. That is the surface AmyNote was built for, and it is a large surface.
Weaknesses
AmyNote is mobile-first, so there is no desktop app and no browser extension. No native CRM sync yet, no video recording, and no team analytics dashboard. Brand recognition is smaller than Avoma or Krisp. If your workflow lives on Salesforce Chatter or a shared coaching-scorecard dashboard, AmyNote will not replace that surface. It replaces the notepad, the memory, and the "what did they actually say" argument three weeks later.
Side-by-Side
| Dimension | Avoma | Krisp | AmyNote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where it records | Zoom / Meet / Teams via bot | On-device, between mic and any app | The phone in your hand, anywhere |
| Entry price | $19/seat/month annual | Free (usable) | 3-day trial, no card |
| Loaded price | ~$77 with CI + RI add-ons | $8/month Pro, $15–$30 Business | Single flat plan |
| Bot-free capture | No (bot is the point) | Yes (on-device middleware) | Yes (no bot to begin with) |
| In-person meetings | No | Partial (records your mic) | Yes (built for this) |
| Language coverage | English-heavy | ~19 languages on Pro | 120+ with real-time translation |
| CRM sync | Deep (native Salesforce, HubSpot) | None | None |
| Cross-session speaker ID | Partial | Partial | Yes |
| Privacy stance | Cloud SaaS, SOC 2, HIPAA on Enterprise | On-device noise cancel, cloud transcripts | Zero-training contract, local E2E |
| Best for | Inside-sales orgs with CRM discipline | Remote workers who need clean audio and light notes | Mobile professionals whose important conversations happen off-screen |
How To Pick
Map a normal week. Count the scheduled Zoom, Meet, and Teams calls with a calendar invite. Count the phone calls and in-person conversations where a bot cannot be. Count the meetings run in a language the cloud tools do not cover well. Count how many of those conversations feed a pipeline forecast versus how many are legal, medical, therapeutic, or field work where a visible bot would chill the room. That breakdown picks the tool.
If the answer is dominated by scheduled video calls that must roll up to Salesforce, Avoma at $77 all-in is the most consolidated buy: transcript, coaching, and revenue intelligence on one invoice. If the answer is scheduled video calls run from a noisy home office where the audio itself is the bottleneck, Krisp fixes the input first and hands you serviceable notes for free. If the meetings that matter are the ones no bot can join — the client across a table, the phone call from the car, the interview in a language cloud bots do not transcribe — AmyNote is the tool built for those.
The Bottom Line
These three tools are not really competing. They are three answers to different questions.
If the question is "how do I coach my sales team on the pipeline they already have in Zoom," Avoma earns its price, and you will use every add-on you turn on.
If the question is "why do my customers keep saying they cannot hear me," Krisp fixes the actual bottleneck and gives you serviceable meeting notes for free.
If the question is "what did I actually agree to in that in-person meeting, and where is that quote a month later," neither Avoma nor Krisp is built for that surface. That is where AmyNote lives: on the phone, off the calendar, with zero-training AI and local storage. Try it at amynote.app on a 3-day free trial and see whether the phone-in-pocket workflow beats the Zoom-bot workflow for the meetings that actually shape your week.
Originally published as an X Article.
